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Twitter and social media guidelines for discussing suicide - One in Four Citizen Journalism
Tweeting about Suicide/Mental Health CrisesPakistan bans 1700 words from SMS, including 'idiot' and 'damn' | The New Age Online
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 Guardian has compiled a unique database of more than 2.5m tweets related to the riots, showing that the majority of surging social media traffic occurred after the first verified reports of incidents in an area
Twitter traffic during the riots | UK news | guardian.co.uk
With the anonymity on the Internet and all, I know it can be a tough decision whether you should be a trolling troll or not.
Flowchart: Should you argue on the Internet?
Science fair gold medalist, 17, invents better way to search Internet - The Globe and Mail
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.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.
Memo to Malcolm Gladwell: Nice Hair, But You Are Wrong: Tech News «
Twitter has established itself as a means of broadcasting information to wide group of people all at once.
Think Your Twitter DM Is Private? Think Again - PCWorld Business Center
How To Tame Your Facebook Emails | Mac|Life
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.
Harrisburg students admit to finding ways around the school's social media ban.
Students: Social media blackout eye-opening, ‘annoying’ | Technologies | eSchoolNews.com
Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook, By Wired UK’s Editor | Epicenter | Wired.com
“David, you’re sounding like an old dude!”
Alex Payne — The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter
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How to Disable Facebook Places
Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new feature called Places that lets you and your friends check in to locations, Foursquare-style. If you'd prefer to keep your location private, or at least stop your friends from posting it, here's how. If you're not convinced that posting your location can be a bad thing, check out PleaseRobMe for some evidence.On August 18, 2010, Facebook announced its new location product, Facebook Places. Much like existing location services foursquare and Gowalla, Places allows users to manually "check-in" to specific places--a concert, café, or classroom --in order to share this information with their social network.
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.The biggest problem in social networking is helping you easily interact with your friends and share information in lots of different contexts.
Giving You More Control
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I came across it in a discussion about new journalism. It looks worth keeping an eye on. I'll attach the article pearl to this one. by Sep 17