Twitter and social media guidelines for discussing suicide - One in Four Citizen Journalism. Tweeting about Suicide/Mental Health Crises With the tragic news of fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s reported suicide being broken on Twitter, and the hashtag #AlexanderMcQueen and other similar topics trending, several active tweeters in the mental health world were concerned that whilst there are established media guidelines for reporting of suicide in the print and broadcast media, there are none for social media. Conventional guidelines wouldn’t work because social media isn’t regulated or controlled, but a quick brainstorm came up with several possibilities for using social media to communicate an anti-suicide message alongside the tweets about the actual death. Use twitter to point out that suicide is a tragedy, and that help is always available.
The main rule to remember is to act responsibly and with respect. The Samaritans, the main source of immediate support for people experiencing mental distress say: Alexander McQueen suicide: media briefing from Samaritans. Pakistan bans 1700 words from SMS, including 'idiot' and 'damn' Pakistan's mobile operators were Sunday scrambling to block text messages containing any of over 1,600 "obscene" terms banned by the country's telecoms authority ahead of a Monday deadline. The list, including words from "quickie" to "fairy" to "Jesus Christ" and obtained by AFP, was distributed on November 14 with operators given seven days to comply, but has met with widespread derision and a threat of legal action.
"There are more than 1,600 words in the list including indecent language, expletives, swear words, slang etc, which have to be filtered," an official at a telecoms firm told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. "The filtering is not good for the system and may degrade the quality of network services -- plus it would be a great inconvenience to our subscribers if their SMS was not delivered due to the wrong choice of words," he said.
Recipes. Twitter traffic during the riots | UK news. aNCL - London Twitter Traffic. Flowchart: Should you argue on the Internet? Science fair gold medalist, 17, invents better way to search Internet. Watch out, Google: When it comes to Internet search, there’s a new competitor in town. Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Schiefer has found a better way to search small documents, such as tweets and Facebook statuses – all for his Grade 11 science fair project. The Pickering resident, who attends Holy Trinity School, created an algorithm to filter through, and find relevant information. Created using linear algebra and discrete math, his algorithm is named “Apodora” after a python species with extraordinary search capabilities.
Not only did Mr. Schiefer win a gold medal at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, but he also earned the attention of students who dubbed him the “next Mark Zuckerberg,” said science and mathematics teacher Nina Dolgovykh. Before he starts Grade 12 in the fall, Mr. You have been compared to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. I’m not really sure how well that applies. Tell me about your science fair project. I focused on micro search, which deals with search on very short documents. Accounts. Memo to Malcolm Gladwell: Nice Hair, But You Are Wrong: Tech News « New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell’s erudite skewering of various cultural phenomena, something he has become famous (or possibly infamous) for, tends to produce a strong reaction in those who are close to the topics he takes on, and his recent analysis of Twitter and its potential uses as a tool for social activism is no exception.
In the several weeks since he wrote the original piece, over half a dozen essays and blog posts from a variety of sources have come out arguing that he is wrong, and today, The Atlantic magazine joined the fray with a guest essay by none other than Twitter co-founder Biz Stone that took issue with his conclusions. (The title of this post comes from a message that Stone posted to Twitter about his essay.) The New Yorker writer’s point is clear: real activism involves sit-ins and getting shot at, not sitting at a keyboard posting things on Twitter or text messaging.
Related content from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d): Think Your Twitter DM Is Private? Think Again - PCWorld Business Center. Twitter has established itself as a means of broadcasting information to wide group of people all at once. But, for those times where you want to talk more intimately, Twitter also has the ability to send a Direct Message (DM) that is private between the two parties.
Well, it's supposed to be private, but the reality is perhaps not as secretive as one might expect. Every 140-character nugget of wisdom you tweet will be fed to anyone who follows your Twitter account, and is also publicly searchable by default. So, if you tweet "Getting sushi for lunch today, who's in? " However, if you want to go out for sushi for lunch with your best friend, and you don't necessarily want the rest of the world to know about, or feel as if they have been invited by proxy to join the party, you probably shouldn't sent the tweet to the whole Twitterverse.
In order to send someone a Direct Message, that person must be following your Twitter account. How To Tame Your Facebook Emails. Posted 10/12/2010 at 2:39pm | by Florence Ion There's something like 500 million Facebook users around the world, which means that at any given second someone is probably receiving a notification message in their inbox. And if this is correct, that means that the servers at Gmail, MobileMe, and University email accounts are flooded with notifications announcing the arrival of a new comment on a photo, video, or hilarious post that you published on a friend's page.
Simply put, those emails are really annoying. And we're sick of them flooding our inboxes and distracting us from getting any work done around here. Chances are you're also sick of having your inbox look like an ad for Facebook. We're here to help by showing you how to stop, reduce and organize those emails. How to turn off any and all Facebook notifications We'd suggest that you uncheck the "Comments after you on a Wall story" option, because do you really care about what some other guy said after you on your friend's wall? Students: Social media blackout eye-opening, ‘annoying’ | Technologies.
Social media experts applaud Harrisburg University after it cuts off access to Facebook, Twitter, and other sites for a week By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor Read more by Denny Carter September 27th, 2010 Harrisburg students admit to finding ways around the school's social media ban. Students at Harrisburg University, where technology officials recently deprived students of social media access for one week, said the restriction was a minor inconvenience for many on campus, and showed some students just how tethered to popular social sites they had become. IT decision makers at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania–a campus of about 600 students established in 2001–banned access to Facebook, Twitter, AOL Instant Messenger, and MySpace through the school’s network during the week of Sept. 13 as a way of showing students how ingrained the technology has become in their everyday lives.
Read the full story on eCampus News. Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook, By Wired UK’s Editor | Epicenter “David, you’re sounding like an old dude!” Matt Flannery, who runs social-lending website Kiva, couldn’t understand when I explained that, no, I wouldn’t be keeping in touch with him via Facebook. “What are you worried about?” He teased in a break at the PINC conference in Holland. “Only old guys get worked up about privacy.”
Well, Matt, I admit I’m the wrong side of 30, and that I still avoid using emoticons in formal correspondence. 1) Private companies aren’t motivated by your best interests Facebook and Google exist to make money, by selling advertisers the means to target you with ever greater precision. 2) They make it harder to reinvent yourself “When you’re young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff,” President Obama warned high-school students in Virginia last September. 6) And besides, why should we let businesses privatize our social discourse? Call me uncool — but that’s a trend I’m happy to share with my friends. David Rowan is the editor of Wired UK magazine. The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter. I have an odd mental relationship with my former employer.
Clearly, I wouldn’t have worked there for three and a half years if I didn’t care about the product and the community. But then, I wouldn’t have left if I really wanted to see that commitment through. I have an investment of stock in the company, of course, but more importantly I have an investment of time and emotional energy. I’ve walked away from the job, but that investment has made it difficult to truly detach myself from it, as excited as I am to be doing what I’m doing now. Next week our team at BankSimple gathers together in person for the first time to kick off development in earnest. I want to enter into that meeting completely focused on our mission. As a disclaimer: nobody at Twitter has read or edited this post, nor am I privy to any insider communication from Twitter and its employees.
#newtwitter Whenever Twitter announces anything, I’m filled with a mix of excitement, resentment, pride, and dread. Conclusion.
How to Disable Facebook Places. Facebook Places: Your Friends Are Here, But What About Your Privacy? | ACLUNC dotRights. Facebook users who don’t know they are sharing. I'm pretty sure all this Facebook stuff will blow over soon enough. Most people have changed their privacy settings by now. The rest don't really care. Some people though simply have no clue that what they're sharing with their inner circle is out on display for anyone to see. Openbook uses the Facebook search API to show these users. Search for a term or phrase and see the status updates of public profiles.
The above is one of the search results for "cheated test. " How about a search for hate job? Giving You More Control. Inbox - Google. Twitter/Home. Annie Edison: OMG I HAVE THE LAZIEST MOS... TweepDiff - Find Out Who You're Missing On Twitter. Twitter Journalism » How To Verify A Tweet. Meet the new Twitter.com. Preserve all the Hard Work that you do on Twitter. The Curation Buzz... And PearlTrees.
Posted by Tom Foremski - April 12, 2010 My buddy Dave Galbraith is the first person I remember to first start talking about curation and the Internet, several years ago. He even named his company Curations, and created a tool/site for curation: Wists. And his site SmashingTelly - is great example of curation, a hand-picked collection of great videos. Today, much is written about curation and the Internet but it all seems mostly talk because we don't really have the tools we need. Curation seems to be just a new way to describe things like blogging and "Editor's Picks. " Robert Scoble writes about The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators "... who does curation? Reading Robert Scoble's post on curation, it almost seemed as if he were describing PearlTrees, a company I've recently been working with in an advisory role, when he talks about "info atoms and molecules. " ...what are info atoms? More to come...
We might talk a lot about curation these days but we've only just begun. Discover - Recent Activity. Kommons. 11 revisions Kommons is a place to ask and answer questions from anyone in the world. We're a new internet startup based in Brooklyn and we're starting with just a few friends. Right now, the only way to get an invitation to kommons is to be asked a question by another kommons user. From there you can direct a question to any of twitter's 110+ million users: anyone from @ kanyewest to @ cshirky . We've recently been described by @ RachelSklar / @ Mediaite as "Formspring meets Twitter meets “Meet The Press.” Read the article here: If you have any questions, feel free to ask us anything: - @ codybrown + @ kraykray 979 Willoughby Ave - Brooklyn, NY 1122 | media@ kommons .com 979 Willoughby Ave - Brooklyn, NY 1122 media@ kommons .com 979 Willoughby Ave - Brooklyn, NY 1122 We're starting small.
Kommons is a place to ask questions to public figures. We aren’t designed to benefit any particular party or group. Invites: Once you're in: But I don't wanna make an account to post in the forum: Creating a community. Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Last night, I retweeted Genomic Repairman’s request for the twitterverse to sign up for an account at LabSpaces.
He wanted users to join in on the discussions he was having in the group he created. We were greeted moments later by a tweet from DrugMonkey saying that THE Facebook for science is dead. Considering I just wrote a blog post on that exact topic, I found his tweet Ironic. The emphasis in that previous post being that there probably will never be ONE single social hub for scientists, but that doesn’t preclude the formation of multiple niche venues. (rant)What exactly is a FaceBook for science anyway? Since there still seems to be confusion about what LabSpaces is, I’ll try to explain it once again. What I’m trying to do with LabSpaces is create a community centered on discussing science, ideally composed of scientists and those in the public interested in science. Published scoops | Sympoze. FriendFeed. What do :-) and other emoticons mean. About. We believe that people fulfill their potential when they're happiest, so we are creating a fun environment where we can all excel.
We love to do our best, and to learn how to do better. Every company has a lodestone around which it revolves. For us, it’s our unwavering dedication to user experience. We go to lengths which others would consider extreme. We believe that if it's better for users, it's not over-engineered. For help, please email supportive@rapportive.com. For security reports, please email security@rapportive.com. For press or partnership enquiries, please contact Rahul at rahul@rapportive.com.