The latest issue (72) of ERCIM News features a keynote address about the future web by Timothy Berners-Lee.

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Berkeley’s on YouTube. American University’s hoping to get on iTunes. George Mason professors have created an online research tool, a virtual filing cabinet for scholars. And with a few clicks on Yale’s Web site, anyone can watch one of the school’s most popular philosophy professors sitting cross-legged on his desk, talking about death.

Washington Post

“Professors are the latest YouTube stars. The popularity of their appearances on YouTube and other video-sharing sites may end up opening up the classroom and making teachingâ€â€?which once took place behind closed doorsâ€â€?a more public art.”

Chronicle of Higher Education

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“Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.” New York Times

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“There are several major findings in this report. One is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources.

Another key insight is that members of Gen Y are the leading users of libraries for help solving problems and in more general patronage.”

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“Social-Network Web Sites Inundate Us With Connections, and That Can Be Alienating”

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“More than four in 10 teens, or 43 percent, who instant message use it for things they wouldn’t say in person, according to an Associated Press-AOL poll released Thursday. Twenty-two percent use IMs to ask people out on dates or accept them, and 13 percent use them to break up.”

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/16/im.poll.ap/index.html

“The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), today announced eight partnerships as part of its new Preserving Creative America initiative to address the long-term preservation of creative content in digital form. These partners will target preservation issues across a broad range of creative works, including digital photographs, cartoons, motion pictures, sound recordings and even video games. The work will be conducted by a combination of industry trade associations, private sector companies and nonprofits, as well as cultural heritage institutions.”

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-156.html

“Is blogging the means by which the ‘feminine’ voices previously excluded from public discourse and kept hidden in the ‘private’ sphere, can now be released? Is blogging a means of affirming the public character of private practices, ask Kambouri and Hatzopoulos.”

http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=165

The National School Boards Association has released a study on the student use of social networking and other web 2.0 tools. Link (PDF)

Andy Carvin has an interview with the authors of the report.