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Survey Finds 30% of College Faculty Use Twitter

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.

Statistics of Blogging

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

UK Professor Takes On University Of Google

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

Google, Microsoft Compete For College Email

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 Sues Google Over Search Patent

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.

Yahoo Launches Social Site For College Grads

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.

College Students Work On Wikipedia

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.

Laughing at Facebook's "Older" Users

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 And ESPN Partner For College GameDay

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.

Web Site Lets College Football Fans Decide

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.