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Dec. 18 — Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel talks with Erik Schatzker and Scarlet Fu about privacy issues being raised by the “Facebook Connect” feature of the social media site.

The popular microblogging Web site Twitter was hacked overnight, leaving the millions who use the site tweetless.

The Internet is constantly changing, and next year has some big developments in store that will affect the way we use the World Wide Web.

John Hoeven into a U.S. Senate race. State Rep. Dan Lederman has started a page to draft the Republican governor into a race against incumbent Democratic Sen.

Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol, will screen his next show on website Hulu months before it appears on television, in a sign of the power of the internet in broadcasting.

Caption: Courtney Love reading her lyrics while she sings The 20th Anniversary of The Mirage at the Bare Pool Lounge Las Vegas, Nevada …. COURTNEY LOVE has spoken out about losing temporary legal control of her teenage daughter FRANCES BEAN COBAIN.

Google revealed details of its display advertising strategy in an educational webcast today, highlighting a three-pronged strategy for untangling some of the complexity within the advertising business.

Oklahoma State University police say information accusing a student of blackmailing another to get her notes on a class that both were taking has been turned over to the Payne County district attorney’s office.

An internet service launched last week by Google to help cameraphone users to identify strangers in the street has been blocked because of alarm over its threat to personal privacy.

I am quoted in this weekend’s Financial Times, in Tim Bradshaw ’s article about Facebook’s new privacy settings [registration may be required]: Chris Applegate […] was dismayed to discover that applications installed by his friends could see his data unless he chose to opt out, an option not given in Facebook’s latest reminder.

It used to be that computer viruses attacked only your hard drive. Now they attack your dignity.

TWITTER, fueled by smartphones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace to become the world’s leading social network.

The site launched a beta version in November 2008. Shoppers can now find virtually any retailer in their city — wherever that may be — to stay updated on merchandise, deals, reviews, and more.

Initially, users had the option to check a box so that their friends would not be able to see everyone on their friends’ list.

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emerging media, communication technologies and education-related trends, helping you make better sense of the many changes taking place around you and understand how these directly impact your future life.

Photo credit: H Berends

Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Using Technology To Improve Collaboration - Simple, single functionality tools are great for collaboration. I have been involved in several implementations of larger-scale systems for collaboration (like Sharepoint). Adoption is generally slow, unless the tool is marketed heavily in the organization and integrated into workflow.
• Social Media: Trends and Implications - Since July, Dave Cormier and I have been hosting a monthly session on Social Media: Trends and Implications.
• How Much Information - I have been waiting for this report for awhile (the last report was from 2003, produced by UC Berkely) How Much Information - now produced by UC San Diego
• How To Get The Right Information To Improve Performance - This is an important point - How to Get the Right Information to Improve Performance
• Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation To User and Open Collaborative Innovation - If you want to give a conference keynote - especially in education - the template used by many speakers is “look, here is a picture of the classroom. It has not changed in 100 years“. This is then followed with a discussion that branches into either: “It is no longer about scarcity” or “learners are different“. Show many images of web 2.0 companies. Add pictures of students being bored.
• Cascading Change - Earlier this week, I was in New Zealand (first in Auckland for the ASCILITE conference, then for a few talks at University of Waikato). In Auckland, I was involved in a panel on Cascading Change.
• 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010 - Social media is now a stratospherically ambiguous term. I mean, really, what does it mean?
• The Physical Is Virtual - The physical and virtual worlds are blurring. The Internet of things (physical networks objects) moves in this direction.
• Balloons, Networks, and Human Motivation - DARPA ran a Red Balloon Challenge last week to explore “the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems“.
• Why We Need To Pay Attention To Copyright - Copyright holders in various countries of the world are starting to pursue very stringent laws (such as three strikes) to promote what many would consider to be a pre-digital era view of content ownership.
• Socializing Open Learning - My presentation in Barcelona - Socializing Open Learning - is available as an Elluminate recording. Slides are available here.

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