Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly - 0 views
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Gary Ritzenthaler on 04 Jun 09NYTimes on Google's OpenSocial
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Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. "
Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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is reading on the Web really reading?
Twitter on the Barricades - Six Lessons Learned - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology?"
Link by Link - The Wars of Words on Wikipedia's Outskirts - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"In a sweeping ruling with little precedent in the eight-year history of Wikipedia, the committee blocked editing from "all I.P. addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates, broadly interpreted." The ruling did allow users from those addresses to appeal to be reinstated on a case-by-case basis."
Book Review - Cognitive Surplus - By Clay Shirky - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Shirky isn't concerned with what's on TV. What galls him is how much we watch, regardless of what's on. Television, he writes in "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age," has "absorbed the lion's share of the free time available to citizens of the developed world."
Movie Review - 'The Social Network' - A Facebook Creation Story With Mark Zuckerberg - ... - 0 views
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NYT review of social network movie.
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"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."
State of the Art - For Those Facebook Left Behind - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Basic overview of social networks for those who haven't used them and don't know what all the fuss is about.
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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... because the Web isn't written in pencil, it's written in ink.
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. "
Reverb P.R. Firm Settles Case on Fake Reviews - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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From August 2010: "The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that a California marketing company had settled charges that it engaged in deceptive advertising by having its employees write and post positive reviews of clients' games in the Apple iTunes Store, without disclosing that they were being paid to do so.
The New Facebook News Feed and What It Means - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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How it works, what it means, impacts on the future of the Facebook news feed / live feed split. From RWW.
Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times - 0 views
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History of Friendster and discussion of it as a business failure
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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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."
Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook - 0 views
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Discussion of writing styles when writing status messages.
How to Hide from Friends You Don't Like - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views
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"With more than 500 million people now on Facebook, it's inevitable that you'll be friended by someone you know, but with whom you don't want to share your online life. Once you've accepted them as a friend, how do you avoid them without the awkwardness of unfriending them?"
5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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NYT how-to on strategies for effective use of Facebook - includes privacy settings, user lists, tagging options
The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Short look at 2010 privacy changes at Facenook, from NYT.
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Long NYT read about a the challenge facing society - "a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing - where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever."