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A lack of "real" social networking, involving personal interaction, may have biological effects

evidence suggests that a lack of face-to-face networking could alter the way genes work, upset immune responses, hormone levels, the function of arteries, and influence mental performance.

social networking sites have played a significant role in making people become more isolated

I don't need another social network, but I would kill for simple friend manager with some solid privacy controls.

so simple it is effortless. This seamless simplicity is precisely why Google Search—and to a lesser degree Gmail, Google Chat, Google Calendar, Google Voice and other services—works so well.

"We are just drowning in possibility with this product,"

Among the six major news threads studied in depth -- which included stories about budgets, crime, a plan involving transit buses, and the sale of a local theater -- fully 83% of stories were essentially repetitive, conveying no new information. Of the 17% that did contain new information, nearly all came from traditional media either in their legacy platforms or in new digital ones.

Charging, Rusbridger says, “removes you from the way people the world over now connect with each other. You cannot control distribution or create scarcity without becoming isolated from this new networked world.”

...because the more recent the information, the more valuable it is."

could we have scheduled snow trucks at the right places based on the real time information inputted by people in the city

“Our goal is to offer the public interested in investigative journalism a tool where they can find experts’ opinions and experiences about the topic, documents, recommended books and articles as a source to consult, and constant updates on the activities and work being done in the investigative journalism field,”

transmedia storytelling

low-cost, grass-roots audience building

the content has to have value

A less quantifiable statistic that may also have impacted the rise of mobile social networking to the point where it has surpassed desktop-based social networking is the fact that it's an activity that taps into how people - normal, everyday people - go about their lives.

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The genius of Google, Facebook, and others is that they've created services that are so useful or entertaining that people will give up some privacy in order to use them. Now the trick is to get people to give up more—in effect, to keep raising the price of the service.

These companies will never stop trying to chip away at our information. Their entire business model is based on the notion of "monetizing" our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself—the "social norm," as Facebook puts it—so that what we're giving up doesn't seem so valuable.

charging brings many costs: • It creates the expense of marketing (when, online, your audience will market you for free, if you deserve it). • It reduces audience. • It reduces advertising revenue. • It reduces links and clicks, which reduces Googlejuice, which reduces discovery, which limits growth.

But more than any of this, pay walls curtail a news organization’s relationship with its public, with its customers. On the internet, it’s in those relationships where value lies.

So media companies are becoming in part, retailers. Does it make sense to put a toll booth at the door to your store to keep people out?

We outsourced all printing, distribution and pre-press ad make up and page make up. We plowed a big part of the savings into expanding our digital resource

The second decsion was we would let the outside world in. We would share our content for free and we would play with anyone who wanted to play with us – mainstream media or bloggers.

The third decision was that we would put in place a very strict protocol that follows the new news ecology of news creation and consumption.

Every day, USAToday.com, the third most popular news site on the web, gets more than 20,000 comments on its stories. Gannett — America's largest news publisher, with USA Today and 81 other dailies, has made "community conversation" a centerpiece of its new strategy

Many stations use three or four of the user-generated stories a week on air.

Number two, the economics of user-generated content are a potential godsend for media companies, big and small. Media can compare the costs of well-salaried editors, producers and reporters to those of "cheap-to-free content," eagerly offered by some pretty good writers. Now draw a line between the headcount reduction in journalism and the rise of user-generated content. It's not a straight line, of course, lots of zigs, zags and caveats, but the trendline is unmistakable.