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"Why Professor Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts" plays on the 1955 classic Why Johnny Can't Read and essentially suggests that educators need to open their minds to the world of the digital natives.

Outside the normal topics for this blog, but I have to ask, "What were they thinking?" or more likely, "What did they expect?"

A friend pointed to the PsyBlog article "Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies" that itself lists ten classic studies of human behavior / sociology. Which is your favorite?

The Connections Show's Stan Relihan interviewed Mike O'Neil in a recent episode. If you are interested in LinkedIn, it's an interesting listen on how advanced users are working with the networking service.

I've played with Amazon's Mechanical Turk a few times. The search for Steve Fossett is one of the more interesting uses of this tool.

Another set of questions from LinkedIn. Answer if you can.

Maybe I'll start a weekly series of posts that include interesting-to-me questions from LinkedIn Answers.

I was browsing my reading list and noticed something about Open Space that said one of the hidden rules is that there is no need to apologize. That's one of the key (to me) rules of Hacky Sack.

I monitor questions from LinkedIn Answers via the web feeds for several categories, and I review the questions once a week or so. here are several I found interesting this week.

Tour de France 2007: Vinokourov tests positive; Astana withdraws from Tour. Too bad.

In the June 2007 HBR, danah boyd was one of the respondents to their case commentary, We Googled You. I highlight boyd's perspective on her own digital identity, as it informs her response.

Forrester's recent report, Social Technographics, has generated some discussion on the web. My first impression is that this may be a new way to think about the "1% Rule" of participation.

I heard about the Map Your Name "game" from Ton Tijlstra. A group of Portugese students think they can find out the "exact number" of internet users within a month via a viral campaign.

A BBC report shows that internet users don't know much of the terminology they use every day. But why is it important for people to know this terminology?

I was talking with some students at Northwestern about blogs, and the question of trustworthiness and accuracy arose, particularly if one is planning to site a blog in a research paper. I came up with some criteria that turn out to be similar to those in a publication from Google.