Here are the sites I visit regularly / subscribe to. The “Links” section of the homepage rotates only a few featured sites.

Blogroll: Higher Education Marketing & Education Technology Blogs

* Indicates communities, magazines, or multi-author blogs.

Alumni Futures
BlogHighEd*
Bob Johnson’s Blog
Cool
Chronicle of Higher Ed ‘Wired Campus’*
The Old College Try: Marketing Higher Ed
College Web Editor
College Web Guy
.eduGuru*
EducationPR
eduStyle* (edu website design gallery)
Glenda Sims’s Blog
High Ed Web Tech
The Higher Ed Marketing Blog
Higher Ed Photography for Recruitment
Higher Ed Web Marketing
InfOpinions
Innogage
Inside Higher Ed*
Interface
Intermedia
Keeping on Top of Higher Ed
Mark Greenfield
Mistaken Goal
mStonerblog
the Sam Jackson College Experience
The Scoop
SquaredPeg.com
Tales from Redesignland
UBrander
University Business*

Marketing & Business (General)

Promising List of Influential Modern Marketers
Pinko Marketing
The Personal MBA
The Long Tail Blog

Web Development Reference

Web Style Guide
Validate Code
XHTML 1 / HTML 4.01 Refference
HTML Special Characters
CSS Refference
PHP Refference
Regular Expressions
FCKeditor html/CMS UI
TinyMCE html/CMS UI

Design

A List Apart (primer)
News Today
Zeldman.com
ShaunInman.com
CSS Zen Garden
StyleBoost
Design Feed
Simple Bits

Flash

Old but still good: Tokyoplastic
LeftChannel

Search Engine Optimization

SEOMOZ Blog
Word Tracker
Search Engine Watch
Writing for People

From ‘A Softer World’

There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.

Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…

I HAVE A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!1!