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Thursday, September 23, 2010

ATS Picks 9/23/10

1. NewsMap's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. News map also allows to compare the news landscape among several countries, making it possible to differentiate which countries give more coverage to, for example, more national news than international or sports rather than business.

2. Create your own “word clouds” using Wordle.Net The clouds give greater promnence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. As an example, here is: a Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan and Lincoln's.

3. Jeff Utecht- Moving from Consumer to Producer of Knowledge.

4. Check out this video of Dr. Sameer Hinduja on the effects of cyberbullying.

Dr. Hinduja is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University and Co-Director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board for Harvard University's Internet Safety Task Force, and works nationally and internationally with schools, law enforcement, businesses, parents, and adolescents to reduce online victimization and its real-world consequences.