My Bookmarks and Annotations 12/18/2008
CREATING & CONNECTING//Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking
Online social networking
is now so deeply embedded in the
lifestyles of tweens and teens that
it rivals television for their attention,
according to a new study
from Grunwald Associates LLC
conducted in cooperation with
the National School Boards
Association.
Nine- to 17-year-olds report
spending almost as much time
using social networking services
and Web sites as they spend
watching television. Among teens,
that amounts to about 9 hours a
week on social networking activities,
compared to about 10 hours
a week watching TV.
Students are hardly passive
couch potatoes online. Beyond
basic communications, many students
engage in highly creative
activities on social networking
sites — and a sizeable proportion
of them are adventurous nonconformists
who set the pace for their
peers.New York Public Library joins Flickr Commons - Boing Boing
New York Public Library joins Flickr Commons
Posted by Cory Doctorow, December 16, 2008 10:27 PM | permalink
The New York Public Library has joined the Flickr Commons, uploading an initial contribution of 1300 images from its photographic collections. Next, the NYPL is promising even more material!Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Windows XP/Vista
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a movie downloader.
You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in a DVD authoring tool, and use them with many other applications or devices.
Supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD,VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3, ...Hacker High: 10 Stories of Teenage Hackers Getting into the System - IT Security
Much like Lolcats, some überteens are up in the Internet, stealing your ... well, whatever they want. If you envision these kids as harmless nerds who hole themselves up in their rooms clicking away their adolescence, check out this list, which details the costly and frightening toll their computer “games” have exacted throughout recent history.
Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps - IT Security
Depending on which feature you use, Google Maps offers a satellite view or a street-level view of tons of locations around the world. You can look up landmarks like the Pyramids of Egypt or the Great Wall of China, as well as more personal places, like your ex’s house. But for all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it’s due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a "Prohibited" sign on the following 51 places.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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