SLIS Presentation

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Here's the PowerPoint I used for the SLIS meeting this morning.

What's a Blog?

Influenced & info collected from:
Lesser, November, Warrick, Friedman, Technorati,
Weinberg, Wikipedia, Blogger, Google, NY Times & Prensky

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Blog

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Weblog

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Blogging

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Social Networking

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Knowledge is Conversational

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Technorati

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21.4 Million

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70,000 a day

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The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day About a new weblog is created each second 2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs Between 700,000 and 1.3 million posts are made each day About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average
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1 every second

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Can I join?
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8.7 Million ~ Live Journal ~ $1 Million

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6 Million ~ Facebook ~ $100 Million

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20 Million ~ Friendster

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31 Million ~ Xanga

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38 Million ~ My Space ~ 585 Million

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Google ~ Blogger

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I don’t have time!

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RSS

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Bloglines

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What about the natives?

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“57 % of all teenagers between 12 and 17who are active online
12 MillionCreate digital content, from building web pages to sharing original artwork, photos and stories to remixing content found elsewhere on the Web. 20 % publish their own Weblogs.” ~ NY Times

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“From school libraries and living rooms, MILLIONS of teenagers are staking out cyberterritory in places like MySpace.com, Xanga.com and Livejournal.com, where they matter-of-factly construct their individual online presence, often to the chagrin of parents and schoolteachers who have belatedly discovered whole nations of teenagers churning out content under their noses.” ~ NY Times
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Security Alert ~ Sparta, New Jersey

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“Pope John XXIII Regional High School, Effective immediately, and over student complaints, the teens were told to dismantle their My Space accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and blogs. Defy the order and face suspension, students were told.
     While public and private schools routinely block access to noneducational Web sites on school computers, Pope John’s order reaches into students’ homes.
     The primary impetus behind the ban is to protect students, McHugh said. The Web sites, popular forums for students to blog about their lives and feelings about their teachers and schools, are fertile ground for sexual predators to gather information about children, he said.”
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What are your kids doing?

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Engagement!

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What can we do to engage the Digital Natives?

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What are you doing to learn the language?

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The Natives are getting restless!