10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks.

Here’s a few good tips for those of us trying to get better at using the FB space.

Please read. This is from the lips of an internet God.

Clay Shirky: Paywall will underperform – the numbers dont add up | Technology | The Guardian.

Here’s another review of Shirky’s second book.

“Shirky’s hypothesis is that a lot of the 20th century stuff we used to take for granted — most people didn’t want to create media, people didn’t value homemade and amateur productions, no one would pitch in to create something for others to enjoy unless they were being paid — weren’t immutable laws of nature, but accidents of history. The Internet has undone those accidents, by making it possible for more people to make and do cool stuff, especially together.”

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

via Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody.

Here is a summary of a speech Clay Shirkey make back in 2008. In it he addresses the mainstream question about online activities “where do people find the time?”. A good read for an overview of the foundational shift from one-way media to individual and group participation and co-creation of new tools.

Spring is a busy time. While it’s the time for new ideas and nurturing emerging projects and ideas, I also like tidying up a few loose ends. In the last couple weeks I’ve updated various documents on our website.

The SOLOS 2008/2009 Annual Report is available on our About Us page.  We’ve also wrapped up the Youth-2-Youth Program at Mission Secondary School. See the Youth-2-Youth page. I’ll let you know when the report for the Aboriginal Centred Community Expert Training (ACCET) is ready.

Later.

Here is a quick visual on how much Facebook has changed their privacy settings since 2005.  As you can see, the original amount of information that was public is very different from what is public now.

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

We all have to make up our own mind about how we’re going to be (or not) on Facebook.

(See previous rants.)

I wanted to pass on this blog post from danah boyd – not just because I think she’s brilliant – but because I’m worried that the fundamental changes in the Facebook terms-of-use agreement last month might be slipping below many people’s radar.

apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant).

Facebook Calls All Hands Meeting On Privacy.

Hopefully  Facebook is going to make some changes. I’ll keep you posted on what happens.

Hey Gang,

Many times I hear other adults using absolutes when talking about ‘computer games’. But discounting online gaming as ‘not engaging with the real life’ is a stage of denial about how technology is changing our culture, our constructs and our children, that we can’t sustain.

The linked article below is from The Guardian (UK) and offers a few new ideas for our discussions about youth and gaming.

Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children | Technology | The Observer.

Feel free to comment below,

Merlyn