Lets follow the Royal Wedding!!!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/royal-wedding-facebook-a-hub-for-millions-celebrating-online.html

Thanks to technology, I can follow!!! Aww I wish I was home for this!!!

South Park rips apple and society....about the iPad

The link will take you to last nights new South Park about apple and how they really are becoming like Big Brother. Very clever, alot of poop jokes, nothing unusual for the creators. If you want a good laugh about how are society interacts with Apple, I suggest you take a look.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad#

Facebook Students

Another Facebook Infographic

Social Network Activism

http://www.hm.com/gb/fashionagainstaids#iwearicare
By joining this awarness your invited to make or remind other about the awarness of AIDS/HIV but if you click further onto some other links on the page you can see how you can get invovled!!!

Another Good Comic

Sen. Al Franken and Media Ecology

Sen. Al Franken is taking the lead on the iPhone tracking issue we spoke about in class today.

Franken has been one of the most vocal politicians when it comes to issues of media ecology. Earlier in the year he was in the news for his advocacy on net neutrality.

Just a little fun webcomic that reminded me of some of the themes we're studying in class, especially the dependency we seem to have toward electronic distractions.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2225#comic

iPods in high school

What would Postman say?  Prep School iPads

Indeed Print VS Digital

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5X8W7MgbhM&feature=player_embedded

Project Chanology

So in preparing for my facilitation tomorrow, I came across a lot of information on Church of Scientology versus Anonymous. I had no idea what this was about and was curious to learn more. Basically the hacking group Anonymous is protesting against the Church of Scientology because of when they tried to take down a video of Tom Cruise on the internet. There is a lot more to it then that but thats basically why this is happening.

This is a forum where I found a lot of information on Anonymous and other things they are doing

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/

YouTube Copyright School

If you upload a video with copyrighted material, you could get a "strike" on your YouTube account. This includes making mashups and remixes of original content. In order to start posting again, you have to watch this video. After answering a few questions about it, you are once again allowed to post to YouTube. If you get 3 strikes, your account will be closed forever. I wonder if DJ Earworm will get his strikes now...

shameless last-minute promotion

Britney got it goin on...at least on social media sites

http://mashable.com/2011/04/12/britney-spears-social-offer/

I found this article that describes the "social media makeover" that Britney Spears underwent to advertise her newest album. I guess a new approach to reach out to old (and new) fans through consumer interaction sites is, to some degree, successful.

Are tablets the future of computing?

Here is a short post about some research Google has been involved with that argues tablets could start to become the primary computer for more and more users.  How many of you think this will be a viable option for students in the very near future?

Terror Alerts & Social Media

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that in the future they will utilize social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to send out terror alerts!

A funny comic I found

I just thought this comic went pretty well with our Facebook discussion.

Another Scary Article

Here is yet another article about the risks of putting our information online.

Skiddoo Your Kids; Skiddoo Your Wife