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Best internet and technology posts from 2008

Continuing my end-of-year wrap ...

Here are what I consider to be some of the "best" internet and technology themed posts from 2008.  Again, some of these posts are academic, some are trivial, some just link to what other people say, and some are a little random, but they do represent what interests me and what I have posted on this blog in 2008.

Social networking:

• Email or social networks? - will social networks replace email?
• Now I know what to call them: "Facebook refusenicks" - what to do with people who refuse to join Facebook.
• All my friends are leaving Facebook ... - a friend explains why she left Facebook.
• Are you getting bored of Facebook? - two Facebook themed songs.

Twitter:

• The rise of Twitter - Twitter seemed to really take off in 2008.
• Twitter: getting fired at Yahoo - the Silicon Alley Insider blog charted the last day of a Yahoo employee via Twitter.
• I do ... on Twitter - marriage proposals on Twitter.
• What is Twitter? - trying to explain exactly what Twitter is.
• Influential Australian Twitterers - the top 100.

Blogging:

• Censored!  - apparently my blog is blocked in China.
• What do people think this blog is? - I look,ed at the Feedburner statistics for my blog and was amused - and a little horrified - to discover what the top search terms that resulted in people visiting my blog were.
• Reflections ... - some thoughts about the direction of this blog.
• Blogging resumes - more thoughts about the direction of this blog.

Online video:

• Cewebrities and other internet people - as I was writing a piece for The Courier Mail on cewebrity, I couldn't get this song out of my head.

Business

• The story of the week: Microsoft and Yahoo - one of the big tech business stories of the year.
• There is something wrong here - the corporate social media curve.

Politics:

• The RNC tries make a point with humour - the RNC set up a parody Facebook for Barack Obama, BarackBook.com, to highlight some of his lesser known associations

Education:

• Facebook = cheating? - student collaboration on Facebook.
• "The Professor as Open Book" - a look at how university lecturers/professors are using social networks to connect and engage with their students.
• Turning the wireless off - a look at wether universities should turn the wireless network off in classrooms.
• Blackboard to sync with Facebook - unfortunately QUT refuses to allow this feature dues to "privacy" issues.
• Academics on Facebook - the role Facebook can play as a channel of communication between academics. 

Other:

• Regrets ... - take a moment to stop and think about the big picture.
• Strange online communities - some of these are simply bizarre.
• Web 2.0 companies I couldn?t live without - a list of the Web 2.0 websites I couldn't live without.
• Bill Gates' Last Day - if you haven't seen it already, you really must watch this hilarious video depicting the last day of Bill Gates at Microsoft:

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 01, 2009 (boomark / email).