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"Iranians are blogging, posting to Facebook and, most visibly, coordinating their protests on Twitter, the messaging service. Their activity has increased, not decreased, since the presidential elections on Friday and ensuing attempts by the government to restrict or censor their online communications."

good short blogged descriptions of a great panel at ASIST2007

Some interesting statistics about Ning sites circa March '08.

"Baby Boomers are speeding up the Web's ongoing metamorphosis from limitless void to global watering hole."

news story from SacBee about SNS burnout

comparison of white label SNS gets most of the big names - though now a year old. (for class)

by Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman

Interesting review...

Some very debatable assumptions about how we use technology and social media in particular in this piece; a good read nonetheless. "Five years from now, will Internet historians signpost the Facebook movie, due out in 2010, as the beginning of the site's end?"