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The internet at 40 | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Great package of stories and multimedia from The Guardian. "The story from the first connection in 1969 to the internet and web of today."
The New Facebook News Feed and What It Means - NYTimes.com
How it works, what it means, impacts on the future of the Facebook news feed / live feed split. From RWW.
Facebook hits 300 million users. What's next for social networking? - washingtonpost.com
Some very debatable assumptions about how we use technology and social media in particular in this piece; a good read nonetheless. "Five years from now, will Internet historians signpost the Facebook movie, due out in 2010, as the beginning of the site's end?"
Creating a Successful Online Brand Community - WSJ.com
Nice article on the right way to create community and integrate social marketing into a web site.
Back-to-school pitches go social with Facebook, Twitter - USATODAY.com
"The spot that shows a sultry Spears ogling a guy at a polo match had its premiere online Thursday on social-networking sites Facebook and BritneySpears.com and promoted by Spears via social network Twitter — where she had 2,536,459 "followers" as of midweek. Candie's purposefully launched the ad this way in hopes that millions of girls will send it back and forth to each other."
Buying Health Insurance on Your Own - WSJ.com
The sour economy is prodding more Americans to buy their own health insurance, a daunting task for people not prepared to navigate the possible pitfalls.
Twitter on the Barricades - Six Lessons Learned - NYTimes.com
"Does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology?"
Scan This Book! - New York Times
When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected. Indeed, the explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible again. Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp?
Health News - New York Times
A special issue of Science Times looks at the explosion of information about health and medicine — on the Web, in medical journals, in the doctor’s office and over the air — and offers some guidelines on how to sort it all out.
Spokesman.com | For some groups, Web isn't so worldwide | Jun 14, 2009
"...as more and more elements of everyday life move online, the lack of Web access also puts certain populations – the poor, rural residents, those with less education – at risk of being marginalized and left without an important tool for connecting to education and health and social services, advocates say."
Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News - NYTimes.com
the outlook is not so cozy when we look at the effects of the recession on a group generally omitted from all the vivid narratives of downward mobility — the already poor, the estimated 20 percent to 30 percent of the population who struggle to get by in the best of times. This demographic, the working poor, have already been living in an economic depression of their own. From their point of view “the economy,” as a shared condition, is a fiction.
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online - NYTimes.com
"Iranians are blogging, posting to Facebook and, most visibly, coordinating their protests on Twitter, the messaging service. Their activity has increased, not decreased, since the presidential elections on Friday and ensuing attempts by the government to restrict or censor their online communications."
Twitterers Protest #CNNFail on Iran Coverage - Digits - WSJ
"When thousands of Iranian citizens flooded the streets to protest the controversial results of last Friday’s presidential election, news viewers in the U.S. rushed to Twitter to protest what they saw as a lack of coverage of Iran on CNN."
Link by Link - The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts - NYTimes.com
"In a sweeping ruling with little precedent in the eight-year history of Wikipedia, the committee blocked editing from “all I.P. addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates, broadly interpreted.” The ruling did allow users from those addresses to appeal to be reinstated on a case-by-case basis."
Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing - NYTimes.com
"Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. "
University offers social media degree about Facebook, Twitter and Bebo - Telegraph
Birmingham City University "is to offer a master's degree teaching students about social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo."
Miss Manners: Mixed messages on social networks - San Jose Mercury News
"Your friends are turning into virtual friends. That is, they want to advertise their every move and feeling to a presumably rapt and admiring audience but do not want to participate in the give and take of actual friendship."
Celebrities use 'ghost tweeters' to update Twitter accounts - Telegraph
Short Telegraph write-up on ghostwriters for Twitter accounts
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