Interesting+Links

Last Semester's Wikispace

 * This is available here.**

**The Best Tools for Visualization**
[|This site] has a bunch of really neat tools that produce visualizations of all sorts of things - from music to social networks, data, internet, flickr. Definitely check out IBM's [|Many Eyes] which lets you make your own visualizations through a three step process.

**Free Media Editing Technology**
"Free Culture" made me remember [|DreamSpark]. "DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools **at no charge** so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career." The Microsoft programs aren't as well known (or in my opinion, as good as) Adobe CS4, but there's a visual web editor, image editor, and a bunch of visual programming software. And, it's free - at least, for students. They have a pretty elaborate set-up for checking to see if you're a student, but it's not a hassle.

**iTunes U**
In addition to the iTunes site for downloading videos and audios of lectures you can go to;[] and get books, videos, movies and access databases. You just need a valid Massachusetts library card-which you can get at Forbes.

**[|Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter]**
A very interesting/alarming article by Dan McSweeney about what Twitter is really used for... Apparently organizing drug making and orgies (or so he says).

[|The Merchants of Cool]
Interesting PBS Frontline documentary about marketing to teenagers and some of the possible social repercussion.

**[|Paramount Offers 'VooZoo']**
Major film studio to offer thousands of movie clips social networkers can use on Facebook.

**[|Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)]**
Kids increasingly rely on personal devices to create social circles apart from their families, changing the way they communicate with their parents.

**[|Gangs Turn To Social Networking Sites To Recruit]**
Gangs are profiling teenagers in on-line sites.

**[|Is MySpace Good for Society?]**
A Discussion on the Freakonomics Blog

**[|Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites]**
A study on the Digital Divide and Social Networking Sites

A short article about a man prosecuted for using Facebook to harass his ex-girlfriend.

**[|Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail]**
It's exactly how it sounds.

[|Facebook For Parents]
New York Times Article about teaching 'rents the ins and outs of Facebook

**[|Cell Phone Symphony]**
By the group Improv Everywhere. An absolutely hysterical (in my mind) example of the "flash mob," a concept described by Bill Wasik in "My Crowd," taking place at Strand Bookstore near Union Square, NY. Includes video at the end.

By Chris Wilson Slate article examining and criticizing the perceived democracy of Wikipedia and Digg.
 * ===**[|Wikipedia And Digg Are Exactly As They Seem, Damn It] (Gawker's response to Wilson's article)**===

**[|Wedding Woes: The Dark Side of Warcraft]**
Popular online PC game is causing marital discord. If this were a PPP my title would read: World of Warcraft causes Divorce

**[|YouTube Community]**
This video is by an anthropologist who is researching community as it relates to video sharing and blogging and whether online groups can be communities. There is also a link to South Tube itself.

**[|We're Smarter Than You Think]**
By Jimmy Wales-the founder of Wikipedia