Tag: danah boyd

I enjoyed reading (April)

May 10, 2013

in Note

3d printing, academic publishing, danah boyd, elsevier, Google, mendeley, reader, reading, research distribution, steven downes

Sudden site shutdowns and the perils of living our lives online (John Paul Titlow): When Google decided to shut down Reader and made the announcement a few weeks ago, this really made me think carefully about what I do online, and where I decide to do it. Obviously there’s incredible convenience in having someone else…
I enjoyed reading (March)

Mar 31, 2013

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ai, anil dash, artificial intelligence, browser, danah boyd, dissemination, eben moglen, graphic novel, html, open standards, passwords, publication, ray kurzweil, research, semantic, singularity, user agent

The web as a universal standard (Tony Bates): It wasn’t so much the content of this post that triggered my thinking, but the title. I’ve been wondering for a while what a “future-proof” knowledge management database would look like. While I think the most powerful ones will be semantic (e.g. like the KDE desktop integrated with the…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-26

Mar 26, 2012

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danah boyd, elsevier, facebook, Google Docs, induction, learning strategies, mit, neurons, teaching and learning, workshop

MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons http://t.co/vMilLKCI via @zite # For once, Facebook does the right thing. https://t.co/Z0FndbSi http://t.co/5F01Wbbs # Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? http://t.co/cLgo7LOf via @zite # Spell checking powered by the web http://t.co/pOOyTqhO. Noticed this improvement in Google Docs, cool to have it explained # Just got back…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-15

Mar 15, 2010

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danah boyd, e-portfolios, etherpad, facebook, htc hero, laptops. teaching and learning, myspace, portfolios, privacy, type with me

"Friend" profiles on Facebook can used to algorithmically infer accurate information about you http://ow.ly/1kLM7 # MySpace starts selling bulk user data. Potentially useful after academic analysis, but is this a slippery slope? http://ow.ly/1kLqa # @wesleylynch those ship launches are mental 🙂 # RT @Tuism: RT @gangreu: @htc please stop to release new android phones and…
Can established research methodologies cope with social media?

Oct 29, 2009

in Research, Social media

danah boyd, Dean of Research, facebook, Google Group, methodology, microblogging, protocol, research, review protocol, slideshare, social media, supervisor, systematic review, twitter

Yesterday I was talking to my supervisor about how I’m having difficulty designing a protocol for my systematic review. The guidelines I’m looking at are very good for designing a structured process for searching through the literature, but they’re not very good at helping me to define a search that includes social media. The JBI…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-03

Aug 3, 2009

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copyright, danah boyd, disney, elsevier, Firefox, google wave, librarian, Library Journal, medical errors, oer, open educational resources, peter tittenberger, posterous, publication, research, silentale, social networks, tweets, twitter, youtube

RT @cshirky: NY Daily News on hospital cover-ups of medical errors: http://bit.ly/KTdHV. Scary… # First Look: Firefox 3.7’s New Design http://bit.ly/mrDKD # Posterous – Do we really need another blogging platform? Maybe… http://bit.ly/Fwdag # First impressions of Google Wave | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com http://bit.ly/33j4d0 # Does anyone know anything about Silentale? It looks…

Tag: danah boyd

I enjoyed reading (April)

I enjoyed reading (March)

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-26

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-15

Can established research methodologies cope with social media?

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-03