http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2n8Ma7y4-I The story of a man told through the facebook’s interface. ******************** Sympathy returns with the new 2010 Spring/Summer collection. found here: Sympathy for the Unusual
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Facebook Status Chart Reveals When Breakups Occur from All Facebook by Jackie Cohen Dating services and other marketers of wares that appeal to the newly single, take note: Facebook relationship statuses most frequently go from ?in a relationship? to ?single? right before spring break. This infographic from David McCandless?s presentation at TED this past August … Read more
Social Networks Are Not Killing Our Social Lives [STATS] from Mashable! by Brenna Ehrlich How the iPad is Transforming Web Design HOW TO: Optimize Your Social Media Marketing Strategy On MySpace?s New Strategy from Mashable! by Ben Parr Microsoft Shifts From Silverlight to HTML5 from Mashable! by Christina Warren When Are Facebook Users Most Active? … Read more
The Original Pirate: See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/41138 Next leak, next week, from Wikileaks? What’s expected: 400,000 US Army docs from Iraq from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Reports are circulating that WikiLeaks will release close to 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War next week. Once again, this would become the … Read more
Who?s Suing Whom? from Daily Bits by noemi Lawsuits are so common these days that no one pays attention to them anymore. But, did you have an idea about the extent of pending lawsuits in the mobile industry? We hear about one company suing another for patent infringement all the time, but I doubt that … Read more
FBI Seal on Wikipedia (Wikipedia) Wikipedia Gets Catty in Legal Dispute Over F.B.I. Seal from Mashable! by Samuel Axon FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines from Wikinews Breaking Down the 2009 DMCA Rulemaking, Part 1: Victory for Vidders from EFF.org Updates by corynne Now that the dust has settled on … Read more
“We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.”[1]
from Mashable! by Vadim Lavrusik
In a recent article, Michael Arrington, writing for TechCrunch, argues that journalists should openly express their opinions and biases, despite the longstanding idea that journalists should hide their political biases. This argument by Arrington comes on the heels of CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr because of a controversial tweet and the forced resignation of Helen Thomas because of her statements about Israel. “I think journalists have the right to express their opinions on the topics they cover,” he writes. “More importantly, I think readers have a right to know what those opinions are.”
Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation from apophenia by zephoria In today?s discussions about privacy, ?youth don?t care about privacy? is an irritating but popular myth. Embedded in this rhetoric is the belief that youth are reckless risk-takers who don?t care about the consequences of their actions. This couldn?t be further from … Read more
Matt Mullenweg lecturing on 29 May. Contact info. Facebook Turkey stats here. ***************************** The Partisan Internet and the Wider World from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Is the internet making us more partisan? This is one of the most persistent debates in the study of cyberspace. Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, author and now Administrator … Read more
Traditional media’s adoption of social media from kottke.org by Aaron Cohen Think about the following platforms and when the first traditional media activity/participation occurred in that platform’s history: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Chatroulette. It was a shorter and shorter period for each platform.* Let’s call this the adoption half-life. It’s a bastardization of … Read more
If there?s one entertainment device that people know and love, it?s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. One reason is that these devices have something that the TV lacks: the web. With the web, finding and accessing interesting content is fast and often as easy as a search. But the web still lacks many of the great features and the high-quality viewing experience that the TV offers.
“To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet. Related Article »…. ******* Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated from apophenia by zephoria From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to … Read more
Blog Blame Game
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
In many weeks, there are stark differences between the social and mainstream media news agendas. But last week, the same two stories that dominated the traditional press ? the attempted bombing in New York?s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ? also drew the most attention in the blogosphere.