Recently, TIME released its list of the 25 best blogs of 2009. No, they’re not all academic, but an interesting read for the savvy, Web-2.0 attuned websurfer. These include:

and more. Check out TIME’s site for the full scoop.

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Cloud Computing; Feb 18th

February 17, 2009

Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

Tim says:

Any web application is a cloud application in the sense that it resides in the cloud. Google, Amazon, Facebook, twitter, flickr, and virtually every other Web 2.0 application is a cloud application.

People use the term “cloud” more specifically in describing web applications that were formerly delivered locally on a PC, like spreadsheets, word processing, databases, and even email.

Examples:

Online Office software:

Resources:

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Facebook’s users ask who owns information

February 17, 2009

Each day, millions of Facebook’s 130-million users upload thousands of photos, videos, and other tidbits of personal information to the social networking site Facebook. These users have little concern (or knowledge) about how Facebook could use this content and who it could share it with. Facebook used to relinquish rights to content once it is removed, but that policy is no more. Brian Stelter of The New York Times writes:

“This month, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated.”

So, do you know what could be done with your content?

Facebook’s users ask who owns information, New York Times, February 16, 2009

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Jake Kulstad

February 12, 2009

Contact
Phone: 804-289-8258
Email: jkulstad [at] richmond.edu
Office: Room 335, 3rd Floor Boatwright Library
jake’s personal blog

My Departments, Programs, and Centers

Education, Geography, Journalism, Military Science & Leadership, Political Science, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Sociology & Anthropology, Criminal Justice, International Studies, Urban Practice & Policy, SCS: Teacher Licensure, Speech Center, International Education, and the Center for Civic Engagement

Personal Information:

Jake is the Academic Technology Consultant for the Social Sciences. He received his BA in Psychology from Carleton College in 1998, and a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2008. His primary teaching experience has been in research methodology and animal learning. Previous research projects have involved quantitation of the systemic elimination of proteins implicated in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Jake’s technological interests include cutting up workstations with power tools to make them quieter, and finding ways to work (and play) more effectively with computers.

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Facebook hits 110 million users

February 4, 2009

What were you doing on February 4, 2004? That was the day the world changed: Facebook was born, and hit the University of Richmond campus later that year, when it was only open to university students. A few years later, Facebook opened up to the world, and has now surpassed MySpace in number of users — Facebook’s 110 million trumps MySpace’s 83 million.

Faculty, do you friend your students? Anyone out there not use Facebook? Why?

Check out the BBC’s piece on Facebook, below.

Facebook turns five

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