Time Magazine published an article June 5th, 2009 about how Twitter is affecting the way we live and interact daily.
What is #HACKEDEDU?
#hackededu is just a small example of how Twitter affects our day to day lives. "40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools." Participants were encouraged to post anything about the conference on twitter and just adding #hackededu. What does that do? Well, if you go to www.search.twitter.com you can just type in #hackededu and you would get all the posts that included #hackededu. At first it was only participants present at the conference who were tweeting, but half an hour into the conference, people that weren't present began to follow the thread and commenting, offering suggestions to those in the room at the actual event.
how is real-time search affecting search engines? what moves are search engines doing as a reaction to growth of real-time information and search?
"Websites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing number of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This is what the naysayers fail to understand: it's just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant 10,000-word New Yorker article as it is to spread the word about your Lucky Charms habit.
At its heart, Google's system is built around the slow, anonymous accumulation of authority: pages rise to the top of Google's search results according to, in part, how many links point to them, which tends to favor older pages that have had time to build an audience. That's a fantastic solution for finding high-quality needles in the immense, spam-plagued haystack that is the contemporary Web. But it's not a particularly useful solution for finding out what people are saying right now, the in-the-moment conversation that industry pioneer John Battelle calls the "super fresh" Web. Even in its toddlerhood, Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super-fresh Web than Google."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html#ixzz0hnGybfBb
what type of content do you suggest we hashtag with #lausocial?
Argh...this is a difficult question...eno what are we supposed to hashtag with lausocial besides stuff related to class? Our class is about new media, so shouldn't any content that we hashtag with #lausocial be about new media??
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