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Well, the numbers are in for the age surveys I posted a few days ago!
Twitter Age
The results were very close to my estimate (37) of the average age of my Twitter network (right now I have 378 followers, although it was less when I first started the survey). I had an amazing 226 responses (and [...]

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I’m really interested in finding out the average age of my twitter network and overall personal/professional learning network. Why? Well, at 27, I seem to be the youngest person in my network and I’m really interested in finding out why. Am I naturally attracted to socializing and learning from *my elders*? Or is it as [...]

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While on Twitter today, I saw these amazing things come through from Kevin Jarrett. He was listening to Dr. Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at the New Jersey Connected Broadband Summit. I didn’t originally know the background and was just wowed by how brilliant Kevin was, but then realized he was quoting [...]

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I @ Do You?

I couldn’t resist writing this and please note that I balanced my posts well today - only 1 out of 2 mentioned Twitter
And speaking of that, take a minute and read Kelly Christopherson’s excellent post “Go to the source“ where he worries “that the gap between the “users” and “non-users” will widen because [...]

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Ok, this is really only breaking news because I want to take credit for convincing James to do this :-) All you need to do is follow @edublogs to get all the latest and greatest news on our favorite edublogger platform! So, play along and let’s show the power of the edublogger/twitter network………………..
On a side note, [...]

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I honestly had to turn my computer back on to write this post - I’d already signed off, made my popcorn, and was ready to settle in for some reading before going to bed, but just had to get this post out of my head! Yup, I’m THAT person.
Anyway, the last blog post I read [...]

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I’m trying yet another of the Twitter Tools that are a perk of being an Edublogs Supporter. A post will be created daily with all of my tweets for the day. Now, at first I was hesitant of this for the same reason I haven’t yet done a daily del.icio.us blog post - it’s just [...]

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After my post earlier today about web app outages and issues, here are some “explanations” and further reading:
Twitter
As I’m writing this, I’m having major issues with Twitter and twhirl (desktop client for twitter) updating properly……………….sigh.
Here is some info about Twitter’s wackiness on Wednesday night:
Sue Water’s post about her Twitter account being hijacked
The Twitter blog’s post on [...]

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Just a thought inspired by @metaweb20 on twitter this morning - as more and more of the popular web tool sites are experiencing downtime and outages or loss of data (examples: twitter, voicethread, edublogs, wikispaces)…….how much should we rely on these services for the bulk of our work? I believe wholeheartedly in opensource, freeware, and [...]

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I have been asked on twitter and various other places for links to this and links to that, and I just thought I’d make it easier for those of you who wish to follow my research on blogging, social networking, and other web tools. I don’t always have time to blog about the information I [...]

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