Deanya Lattimore's List: social-networking

Twitter can be a great business tool. But as use of the Web site for 140-character messages spreads to workplaces around the world, companies are also discovering the risks. Now, instead of just worrying about a dubious blog post or an embarrassing photo of the boss being posted to Facebook, employers have to contend with staffers shooting off frequent blasts of personal insight into a public and traceable sphere. "The concept of [workers] posting inappropriate material that could be harmful has been around for a while, but Twitter accelerates the problem because of its immediacy and volume," says Mark Rasch, a former head of the U.S. Justice Dept.'s computer crime unit who now consults with companies on creating policies to address employees' use of technology.

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Show #87, April 8: Prof. Ronald Deibert of the University of Toronto, discussing Tracking GhostNet, Access Denied and Citizen Lab.

Show #86, March 11: Andrew Lewman and Prof. Wendy Seltzer of the Tor Project.

Show #85, February 18: Prof. Ned Snow of the University of Arkansas School of Law on the perils of copyright.

Show # 84, February 4: Robert Wallace, co-author of Spycraft.

Show 83, January 28: Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), co-editor of Profiling the European Citizen.

Show #82, January 14, 2009: Zohar Efroni, Non-Resident Fellow at CIS, discussing Israeli copyright law.

Show #81, December 3: Prof. John Palfrey of Harvard Law School, co-author of Born Digital.

Show #80, November 19: Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing.

Show #79, November 12: Prof. Mark Bauerlein of Emory University, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)

Show # 78, October 29: Michael Gollin, Esq. of Venable LLP, author of Driving Innovation.

Show #77, October 22: David Rice, author of Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software.

Show #76, October 15: Prof. Paul Ohm of the University of Colorado Law School, author of The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP [In

"Hi There! I'm a Twitter!"

WorldCat.org has a new feature: search for an author, go to a detailed record of a book by that author, go down to the "Details" part of the record, and click the "Go" button beside "Find More information about..." the author's name. The resulting "Identities" record is a cool social network representation of the author. I've linked Erving Goffman's as an example.

As hotels, airlines and other travel companies line up on Twitter to promote their brands, customers who voice their grievances in the form of tweets are getting surprisingly fast responses for everything from bad airplane seats to poor room service.

Welcome to Jockipedia, the definitive source for Athletes First-Person Communication. 3,523 Athletes.

Options for backing up social media from Bob Rankin. Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, MySpace

Draining or gaining? The social networks of public housing movers in Boston
Alexandra M. Curley

Delft University of Technology, acurley22@gmail.com

The social networks of low-income residents have been simultaneously described as supportive, strained, localized, and limited in providing access to necessary resources and information. Using a longitudinal qualitative approach, this study investigated the social networks of low-income women in one US high-poverty public housing project. Existing sociological frameworks for studying networks did not fully capture the women's social ties, particularly their "draining" ties. As the women were relocated as part of a mixed-income housing initiative targeting their neighborhood, a changing flow of resources and stress passed through social ties. A change in neighborhood prompted changes in low-income people's social networks far different than expected. Findings also raise questions about the importance of weak or bridging ties in linking low-income women with mobility opportunities.

Key Words: concentrated poverty • draining • housing mobility • leverage • relocation • social networks • support

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 227-247 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407509106716

Google Wave stuff

conference announce, find, connect, twitter

search on topic like second life

Virtual worlds consulting company.  Great numbers crunching of the different kinds of business and personal clients who are signing up for social media accounts.