Category: social networking

Friday Five: 23 minutes till lunchtime edition

Contextless links on a Friday morning:

  1. answering emails/ Video chatting on skype/How ridiculous. That’s just one example — my own — of the latest literary rage, Twitterku. That’s hiaku created from found Twitter texts. Via Boing Boing. (Being a non-Twitterer — or non-Twit, as I prefer — I had to go to the Twitter website to get my TwitterKu text.)
  2. No. 11: Doing a Friday Five when your stomach is growling. When is blogging a waste of time? 10 nasty examples.
  3. So many social networks … so little time. Struggling to manage all your social networks? MyLifeBrand may be your savior. The service lets users aggregate all their social networks and navigate between them from one place. TechCrunch reviews the service. It sounds promising.
  4. A Second Life for higher ed is the topic of Karine Joly‘s latest column for University Business. She plans to post interviews she conducted for this column on her blog in a couple of days.
  5. Seven alternatives to Wikipedia. Students of the world, rejoice! No longer do you have to rely solely on Wikipedia for your research papers. Via David Weinberger.

It is now 11:59. Time for lunch.

U.S. News rankings guru gets into blogging

Robert Morse, the guy who develops the methodology behind U.S. News & World Report‘s annual college rankings, is now blogging about the process on the U.S. News website. His blog — cleverly titled Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings — is billed as offering “deeper insights into the methodologies and is a forum for commentary and analysis of college, grad and other rankings.”

I’m not sure how much of a true forum Morse’s blog will be (there’s no option to leave comments on Morse’s post) but it’s heartening to see U.S. News is attempting to get transparent about the rankings process. In fact, it warms the cockles of my rankings-wonk heart.

Welcome to the blogosphere, Robert! Don’t forget to bookmark us.