Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Some articles

Lately, I've seen some interesting random articles around.

Time article. Mentions Twitter and "1 in 8 Americans suffers from some form of Internet addiction..." I think in our class it is higher :)

Read here.

One in NYTimes on manners for blogs. Do you think that would be possible?

Read here

One in the Wall Street Journal about attracting job offers through a blog:
Read here

2 comments:

Janice said...

The blog manners article is interesting. I like the idea of modular, voluntary badges people can use to make explicit the rules for their particular area.
I was a big fan of Kathy Sierra's blog and it's a shame it's over now because of some antisocial behavior. Adding some rules to the game might not solve the problem of online harassment, but it might at least make it easier to keep conversations civil.

LaTasha D. Taylor said...

Here's the article I mentioned in class about religion and the virtual world:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2007-04-01-second-life-religion_N.htm