Month: January 2010

Friday Five: weekend reading

Some interesting stuff for your weekend reading:

  1. Why Lady Gaga matters. Yeah, I know. Weird, huh? But Jessica Krywosa makes a compelling argument that we in higher ed have a lot to learn from this Fame Monster.
  2. Brad J. Ward’s squaredpeg post, Augmented reality in higher ed, show a great example of how one Australian university is using augmented reality [AR] in its student recruitment efforts. (Related from Mashable: Harvard Teams Up With Foursquare For Collegiate Check-Ins.)
  3. Who lives in our content village? Georgy Cohen goes medieval on us with this great post on her blog, Safe Digression.
  4. Introducing…you — Ron Bronson‘s thoughts on connecting with people in the social mediasphere.
  5. 20 tools for tracking social media marketing. Some practical stuff here for your online listening post.

Social media pageviews (surprise: Facebook’s in the lead)

Even though I’m becoming less and less of a fan of Facebook, I am apparently in the minority. Take a look at the chart below (a recent chart of the day from Silicon Alley Insider).

So the average Facebook user views 662 pages per month? That’s 22 pageviews per day. That’s a lot of Facebook time (and a lot of Farmville and Mafia Wars).

What’s even more surprising to me, though, is that hi5 is number 2, eclipsing MySpace. Anybody else surprised by that?

I wonder if any colleges or universities have established a presence on hi5. [j/k. Sorta.]