Top 50 Business Professor Blogs

"Many of the best and the brightest in the field of business can be found teaching at universities around the world. Besides enrolling in one of these schools, you can reap the benefits of their knowledge by visiting their blogs where they discuss the topics that they know best. From management to marketing and everything in between, these blogs by business professors offer a wealth of information for anyone to take just by stopping by for a read."

Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs

"Academics are flocking to the Internet like never before, particularly to start a blog. Faculty members in colleges across the world are connecting with people on a whole new level. Let’s face it – academia can actually be very lonely at times. Not only can a blog be cathartic for professors, it can allow for valuable feedback from students and/or colleagues. Liberal arts subjects are wildly varied. From art to science, the major disciplines have long been considered part of the liberal arts. Below are 100 of the most interesting and popular blogs written by liberal arts professors. They have been divided into subject and alphabetized, as it would be virtually impossible to arrange them according to importance."

Time's 25 Best Blogs of 2009

Time's 25 Best Blogs of 2009

Collaborative Online Medical Encyclopedia Goes Live

"Medpedia, a new online medical encyclopedia relying on user-generated content from anyone with an M.D. or a Ph.D. in a biomedical field, officially became available today."

Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp

"One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web. Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research and all kinds of other material stored in databases that remain largely invisible to search engines."

Google Collaborates on Moodle Integration

"Google Apps Education Edition is coming to an open source learning management system near you. Moodlerooms, a Moodle partner, is launching a new enhancement to the open source LMS in collaboration with search giant Google to provide access to the application suite using a single sign-on."

Texting 'Improves Language Skill'

"Researchers from Coventry University studied 88 children aged between 10 and 12 to understand the impact of text messaging on their language skills. They found that the use of so-called "textisms" could be having a positive impact on reading development. The study is published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology."

The Semantic Web in Action

The Semantic Web in Action - a Scientific American article - "Corporate applications are well under way, and consumer uses are emerging."

Longitudinal Study: Social Media and College Admissions

"The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently
conducted one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media by college admissions offices. The new study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all the four-year accredited institutions in the United States. The colleges and universities were identified using a directory compiled by the University of Texas."

Older Adults Among Newer Members on Social Networking Sites

"...social networking is attracting new — and older — devotees, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released Wednesday. It finds that 35% of adult Internet users now have a profile on at least one social networking site. And among online adults ages 35-44, 30% have a profile. Although the share of online adults with a profile quadrupled from 8% in 2005, Pew found that the young are still more likely to use these sites. Among 18-24-year-olds, 75% of those who go online have a profile."

Americans Prefer News From Web to Newspapers, Survey Finds

"The Internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national and international news for Americans, according to a new survey. Television, however, remains the preferred medium for Americans, according to the survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Seventy percent of the 1,489 people surveyed by Pew said television is their primary source for national and international news. Forty percent said they get most of their news from the Internet, up from 24 percent in September 2007, and more than the 35 percent who cited newspapers as their main news source."

Synchronous and Asynchronous E-Learning

"Some researchers have expressed concern about the learning outcomes for e-learners, but a review of 355 comparative studies reveal no significant difference in learning outcomes, commonly measured as grades or exam results between traditional and e-learning modes of delivery."

Study Finds Online Activities Help Teens' Development

"Surfing the internet, playing games and hanging out on social networks are important for teen development, a large study of online use has revealed. The report counters the stereotypical view held by many parents and teachers that such activity is a waste of time. More than 800 teenagers and parents took part in the three-year US project."

Study Finds Men and Young People Deal Better With Tech Glitches

"When faced with a technology breakdown, levels of optimism and frustration vary depending on age and gender, according to a new study to be released on Sunday. 'Younger users are generally much more optimistic than older adults when their gadgets fail,' says the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project which sponsored the survey of 2,054 U.S. adults."

Text Messaging Explodes in America

"American cell phone users are sending more text messages than they are making phone calls, according to a Nielsen Mobile survey released Monday. For the second quarter of 2008, U.S. mobile subscribers sent and received on average 357 text messages per month, compared with making and receiving 204 phone calls a month, according to Nielsen. The new statistic is a clear indication that Americans have jumped onto the SMS text bandwagon. In the first quarter of 2006, Americans sent and received 65 text messages per month. The number of messages sent and received today has increased 450 percent. But even though people are texting more, it doesn't mean that they've stopped talking on the phone. According to Nielsen, the number of phone calls that people make and receive each month has remained relatively flat over the past two years."

New Research Shows Technology Driving 'Generation Gap'

"Technology is fast becoming the latest driving force behind what is often called the 'generation gap.' While Americans of every age have become quite comfortable with and dependent on technology, a new study by The Barna Group explores how technology is shaping different experiences and expectations among generations."

'Horizon Report' Names Top Technology Trends to Watch in 2009

The “2009 Horizon Report,” the latest edition of the annual list of technology trends to watch in education, is compiled based on news reports, research studies, and interviews with experts.

Study: Internet Addiction May Fuel Teen Aggression

"In a study of more than 9,400 Taiwanese teenagers, the researchers found that those with signs of Internet "addiction" were more likely to say they had hit, shoved or threatened someone in the past year."

Pew Report: The Future of the Internet III

This report overview gives "key findings on the survey of experts by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020."

Colleges Get Poor Grades on Teaching Web Fundamentals

"Colleges do a poor job preparing students for careers designing Web sites or for related positions in Web development, often because they teach out-of-date curricula and fail to hire instructors with recent experience in the field, according to a survey of top Web designers and developers."

Literacy Study: 1 in 7 U.S. Adults are Unable to Read This

"A long-awaited federal study finds that an estimated 32 million adults in the USA — about one in seven — are saddled with such low literacy skills that it would be tough for them to read anything more challenging than a children's picture book or to understand a medication's side effects listed on a pill bottle. . .Overall, the study finds, the nation hasn't made a dent in its adult-literacy problem: From 1992 to 2003, it shows, the USA added about 23 million adults to its population; in that period, an estimated 3.6 million more joined the ranks of adults with low literacy skills."

Analyst Estimates Amazon Sold 500K Kindles in 2008

"Amazon.com has kept its Kindle electronic book reader shrouded in some mystery. The online retailer has said the device is out of stock, but it hasn't said how many were sold. On Tuesday, Citi Investment Research analyst Mark Mahaney offered an educated guess — that Amazon sold 500,000 Kindles last year. That is higher than his previous expectation of 380,000."

Pew Report on Twitter

"As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. Twitter and similar services have been most avidly embraced by young adults. Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 and 24 have ever used Twitter and its ilk, as have 20% of online adults 25 to 34. Use of these services drops off steadily after age 35 with 10% of 35 to 44 year olds and 5% of 45 to 54 year olds using Twitter. The decline is even more stark among older internet users; 4% of 55-64 year olds and 2% of those 65 and older use Twitter."