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"Your LinkedIn profile is your connection to over 35 million professionals in the business world. Use it to show the world who you are. To help the world find you. "

Conversation by CNet editors on the features and process of using Google Wave.

A good how-to on doing specific kinds of quieries in Twitter's search to yield the kind of results stream for a specific topic.

"Using Boolean Searches to Follow Iran Election and More on Twitter."

In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics. Hunch's answers are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community, narrowed down to people like you, or just enough like you that you might be mistaken for each other in a dark room. Hunch is designed so that every time it's used, it learns something new. That means Hunch's hunches are always getting better.

Christian Crumlish describes the themes in his book, "the Power of Many," a 2004 look at social web topics. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the use of the Web and social media in the Dean Campaign of 2004.

Short Telegraph write-up on ghostwriters for Twitter accounts

report of a study on use of Facebook

2004 article on how Dean used the Internet in the 2004 POTUS election.

"As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. "

statistics and basics of uses & grats for social networks

Short Mashable list of ways to use Twitter for freebies

"Study finds political parties use Twitter differently, but says Democrats' messages are more honest.

"I want to go in a completely different direction today. Ready? You need to understand that the way you imagine the users will determine how useful a journalist you will be."

"This paper explores key issues people experience managing personal boundaries within and across social technologies. We look in particular at email and online social networks. We offer a theoretical framework for understanding the errors in assumptions about the singularity of identity that are currently inscribed into the sharing models of social technology systems. Through a questionnaire study we examine how people facet their identities and their lives, and how these facets are expressed through use of technology. We found for more mature users family was an extremely important context for sharing online, and that email was still a preferred form of communication for private sharing across facets of life. Single, working men had the highest level of incompatible facets, and a higher level of facet incompatibility was correlated with increased worry about sharing in the context of social networks."

Nice timeline of history of the Web, 2000-2010. Good mix of items and some include audio links. Used in class.

Normally I hate stupid blog lists, but this one is better than most. Brief introductions to different social media trends - useful for class.

Good guide for journalists about Wikipedia, how to use it, ways to check credibility of an article.

Amazing study on how Facebook or similar sns data can be used to predict social security numbers.

"We've known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism and inadvertent indiscretion, but we are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent - and public - digital files."

Just what the title says - the author lays out why using Facebook is a bad idea and why you should take the big step and quit Facebook.