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Social Media websites are growing and is becoming the fastest source to receive news and information on others from all over the world. In the US, the first pictures from the recent disaster in Haiti was released from social media.

This is an interesting way to view the news of the past year. This site offers pictures, music and audio and text commentary on the pictures.

Internet art piece by Johnathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Scroll down and click on "Interactive Version" to see it. What is it? Well, as stated on their "Mission" page: "We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved."

Adam Ostrow discusses how celebrities, brands, corporations use twitter as a "power". "Normal" people like you and I do not use as much as expected. Is twitter the new way to find celebrity gossip or product promotions ? Is this distracting social media websites that try to make an "online community?

I am a very big fan of FireFox and it's better for your computer, which is easier on you. I wanted to share this with everyone!