Social Blogging

If you are interested in finding out the key media trends, the events and the new communication technologies that are shaping your future, in this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, explores and reports on new fascinating stories and insights and their impact on learning, work and society.

Photo credit: Robert Mizerek

Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Social Media Time - Nielsen’s research states that 18% of time spent online is spent on social networking sites and services.
• Social Search - Google just announced Social Search. The service helps you “to find publicly available content from your social circle“.
• The Web In 5 Years: More of Now - Interesting thoughts from Eric Schmidt - CEO, Google - on the web in five years.
• Go Grandpa! - By now, I think the view of innate generational differences in technology use has been sufficiently debunked (see Mark Bullen’s Netgenskeptic site). NY Times highlights the appeal of technology among the elderly.
• Communicating Complexity - I have been following Indexed - a site that uses simple visuals to communicate complex relationships and interactions. For example: The relationship between information and confusion.
• Falling of The Cliff - When change happens in a networked environment, it is rapid. We have seen it in the financial markets, music industry, TV (YouTube), and, perhaps at it is most pronounced, the newspaper industry.
• A Personal Cyberinfrastructure - At Open Education in Vancouver in August, Gardner Campbell argued that cPanel could be used as an LMS.

Here all the details: