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Ed Webb

ei: Why I tried to arrest Avigdor Lieberman - 0 views

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    Can journalists be silent if they perceive crime (whether he's right or not is  a separate question)? Is there a limit to objectivity as there is to a soldier's duty to follow orders?
Ed Webb

Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • bloggers often use Facebook and Twitter to promote their blog posts to a wider audience. Rather than being competitors, he said, they are complementary.
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      Exactly. Different functions, different niches. Use the right tool for the job, not one tool for everything.
  • Among 34-to-45-year-olds who use the Internet, the percentage who blog increased six points, to 16 percent, in 2010 from two years earlier, the Pew survey found. Blogging by 46-to-55-year-olds increased five percentage points, to 11 percent, while blogging among 65-to-73-year-olds rose two percentage points, to 8 percent.
  • “If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you turn to blogs,” Ms. Camahort Page said. “You aren’t going to find it on Facebook, and you aren’t going to find it in 140 characters on Twitter.”
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  • “The act of telling your story and sharing part of your life with somebody is alive and well — even more so than at the dawn of blogging,” Mr. Rainie said. “It’s just morphing onto other platforms.” The blurring of lines is readily apparent among users of Tumblr. Although Tumblr calls itself a blogging service, many of its users are unaware of the description and do not consider themselves bloggers — raising the possibility that the decline in blogging by the younger generation is merely a semantic issue.
  • Blogger, owned by Google, had fewer unique visitors in the United States in December than it had a year earlier — a 2 percent decline, to 58.6 million — although globally, Blogger’s unique visitors rose 9 percent, to 323 million.
  • some blogging services like Tumblr and WordPress seem to have avoided any decline. Toni Schneider, chief executive of Automattic, the company that commercializes the WordPress blogging software, explains that WordPress is mostly for serious bloggers, not the younger novices who are defecting to social networking.
Ed Webb

To Celebrate The #Jan25 Revolution, Egyptian Names His Firstborn "Facebook" - 0 views

  • A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and chose to express it in the form of naming his firstborn girl “Facebook” Jamal Ibrahim
  • While the baby girl could just have easily been called “YouTube,” “Twitter” “Google” or even “Cellphone Camera,” it seems like Facebook has become the umbrella symbol for how social media can spread the message of freedom. There are countless manefestation of this, the above graffiti in Cairo, “Thank you Facebook” protest sign, and Wael Ghonim himself personally expressing his gratitude to Mark Zuckerberg on CNN.
Ed Webb

Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter - 0 views

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    Seif al-Qadhafi explains...
Ed Webb

In an attempt to challenge Islamophobia the Daily Show presents The Qu'osby Show - 3 views

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    So, this clearly isn't going to work. What will?
Ed Webb

Libya February 17th | Keeping with the events as they happen - 2 views

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    The revolution will have a website
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