Liberal Education Today

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Twitter drives traffic to social media, less shopping: Hitwise

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2009/03/where_to_from_twitter.html Twitter tends to send users on to other Web 2.0 sites, but not very often to business sites, according to a new...

Google Voice released in private beta

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/here-comes-google-voice.html Google has launched a voice communication platform, called, unsurprisingly, Google Voice. This set of services has been built upon...

Intelligence agencies expanding their use of Web 2.0

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/web2.0/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215801627 The CIA and NSA have been using Web 2.0 tools for a while, and are going to explore new social media...

Assessment students with clickers

http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?page_id=36 The second chapter of Derek Bruff's new book, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, offers a good overview of ways to assess student learning...

Another new Web search service coming: Wolfram|Alpha

http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/ Another attempt to win the Web search crown is on its way, this time from a major digital developer. Wolfram|Alpha is a Stephen Wolfram...

Teaching with Smartpen

http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=206 Michael Wesch describes using the Smartpen device in class:In short, it records audio as you write and links what you are writing to the audio (by...

Making the most of Twitter: search and search better

http://www.twitip.com/welcome-to-the-hive-mind-learn-how-to-search-twitter/ This article offers a good introduction on how to use Twitter's search function. That's not a simple thing, as the piece...

Social networks, blogs more popular than email: Nielson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/09/nielsen-social-networks Social networking sites and blogs are now more widely used worldwide than email, according to Nielson Online. A new...

Oxford blogging for reason

http://lesswrong.com/ An Oxford University project gets users to discuss and better understand reason. The Less Wrong community blog combines posts, comments, a karma reputation rating system, and...