A new study concludes that participatory Web 2.0 sites have less participation that initially believed. Less than 1% of users at Flickr and YouTube actually upload videos; the online encyclopedia Wikipedia had the most participation (about 4%) of the sites examined in the survey.
article at News.com
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Virginia Tech tragedy - social networking and student privacy
Slate.com has an interesting piece that looks at how the Virginia Tech tragedy unfolded from the perspective of students, giving us a rare look at how students use social networking tools in their day to day communication and social life.
The article looks at some entries at LiveJournal and Fark.com as students blogged about the events as they happened and tried to connect with friends to make sure they were okay; the piece also links to some of the tributes that have cropped up on social networking sites.
Other media sites are reporting and linking to two plays that were done by the shooter in a class. Interestingly, these were given to AOL's news site by one of his classmates that apparently now works for the company; the man said in a blog post about the events at the school that he "didn't know" whether it was legal for him to turn over the plays to the press, but he did so for the benefit of individuals trying to understand what happened. The plays were exchanged by the students using Virginia Tech's Blackboard system as part of the course's peer review process, so that leaves some legal questions about student privacy for universities and instructors to consider in the future.
article at Slate.com
The article looks at some entries at LiveJournal and Fark.com as students blogged about the events as they happened and tried to connect with friends to make sure they were okay; the piece also links to some of the tributes that have cropped up on social networking sites.
Other media sites are reporting and linking to two plays that were done by the shooter in a class. Interestingly, these were given to AOL's news site by one of his classmates that apparently now works for the company; the man said in a blog post about the events at the school that he "didn't know" whether it was legal for him to turn over the plays to the press, but he did so for the benefit of individuals trying to understand what happened. The plays were exchanged by the students using Virginia Tech's Blackboard system as part of the course's peer review process, so that leaves some legal questions about student privacy for universities and instructors to consider in the future.
article at Slate.com
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