Faculty Focus released some interesting findings from a survey about Twitter usage and trends among college faculty. They surveyed about 2,000 faculty members and found that about a third of the respondents say they use Twitter. Over half say they have never used Twitter at all.

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere is being released this week, one segment each day.

Students taking classes with University of Brighton media studies professor Tara Brabazon will have to give up a couple of things: Google and Wikipedia.

Universities have been opting for email services managed by Microsoft or Google as a desirable alternative to running email as an in-house operation.

Northeastern University has sued Google in the patent-friendly federal court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the search giant of infringing upon its work.

Due to the arrival of OpenSocial, it felt like social networking had reached a new stage of development; Facebook stood alone, but other companies began to march under a single flag.  Now, however, there’s another “loose” contender called Kickstart.

The typical college professor warns students to steer clear of Wikipedia – even the use of that term is likely to result in red ink and a lowered grade.  But one professor actually created a project that revolved around the site.

Over the weekend I saw the New York Times article about how college users of Facebook were laughing at those of us who are, um, “older.”

AT&T announced today that it is partnering with ESPN College GameDay host Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit this fall for "Confessions of a College Football Junkie," a series of weekly video clips available on AT&T 3G wireless handsets.

FansPoll.com, a Web site that allows fans to vote on things related to college football including what team should be the national champions announced the official launch of its season today.

We all know that Google can help us find MP3 files, but the leading search engine just works off of words and phrases.  Another engine would actually listen to and analyze music, and it just received a small amount of funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

MTV Networks and Internet video company ROO have formed a partnership to offer a video player and customizable video channels to over 500 online college newspapers in mtvU’s College Publisher network.

March Madness begins today and already the tournament action is in full swing with enough opening round games to satisfy even the most ravenous of college basketball appetites.