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Burning Man organizers are clamping down on how photos and video taken at the annual festival can be used on the Internet.

OFF HIS: Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as a back-stabbing genius with a fetish for Asian women in a new book.

College students say social networking makes them more narcissistic, a national survey reports - and they also believe their generation is the most narcissistic of all.

This story was written by Joseph Tartakoff. The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, media expert George Siemens shares pointers and resources to help you make sense of how new media technologies are changing the world around you.

Photo credit: D’Arcy Norman

Inside this Media Literacy digest:

• How Do Organizations Respond To Emerging Technologies? - Businesses, schools, and universities are having difficulty responding to emerging technologies.
• Radicalization Of Educational Reform - David Wiley is concerned that the radicals are taking over discussions of educational reform.
• Virtual Private Cloud - Amazon has announced a new service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Even Revolutionaries Conserve - The concept revolutionaries as conservators is reflected in many aspects of society.
• State Of Learning Management Systems In Higher Education - Michael Feldstein links to a thorough review of learning management systems in higher education: presentation (webex) and slides (.pdf).
• “Good” Peer Review - In the field of emerging technologies, too many reviewers are not current and as a consequence should not be reviewing papers.
• Letting Networks Do What They Do Well - It is a simple process: collect list of organizations, sort list by location and industry similarity, and port into network analysis tool.
• Multitasking - It is difficult to accept research evidence in the face of personal observation

Here all the details:

Share + Aug 28, 2009 4:00 pm US/Central NEW YORK 1 of 1 An Afghan man poses as he uses a computer to access Facebook on the internet in Kabul on July 30, 2009.

A teenager was yesterday convicted of carrying a machete after photos of him waving it were posted on the internet.

Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:13pm EDT - Bridget Roberts of Columbia, Maryland, receives an experimental vaccine designed to prevent her from contracting the H1N1 swine flu virus, during early trials of the drug at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, August 10, 2009.

“My desire would be that someone in any country of the world could access the best of the brightest minds and observe the learning experience that goes on in the classrooms of Yale, Harvard, and Stanford… [and] that not only do we make our resources available for free, but that instead we make the entire educational experience, the part that helps us to become a better society, for free.“

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This is how, open education advocate George Siemens introduced to me his vision for an ideal educational ecosystem and learning curriculum when I suddenly asked him: “If you could rub the lamp and express a desire, what would that be, George?”

In this video, George explains which would be the key three learning areas acting as the foundations for such an ideal curriculum:

1. Key subjects: Understand key subjects like history, religion, maths, sciences, architecture, engineering.
2. Metacognition: Think critically and learn how to value the opinions of others without devaluing yours.
3. Co-creation: Work with others to create something meaningful in a collaborative fashion.

Here George Siemens’ full vision for an ideal learning curriculum (full video interview):

An online profile can go a long way toward helping people get jobs, but it can also help them keep that job.

Social networking sites are like internet shopping for burglars with users revealing details about their home and whereabouts to complete strangers, an insurer has warned.

Yahoo has enhanced both its Search results page and Yahoo Messenger, and has optimized its Yahoo Mail webpage for use with the iPhone.

Short messages, or “tweets,” delivered through Twitter go out from a sender to a group of recipients simultaneously, providing a fast and easy way to reach a lot of people in a short time.

Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Local Government Tuesday 25th August 2009 - 4:13pm Ex-mayor escapes jail for child pornography conviction A former mayor escaped jail today after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Facebook grows into an online social superpower Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:18 Facebook was born in 2004 as a way for college students to connect with friends.