Social Blogging

Facebook might have a larger audience than the population of Brazil , but the site doesn’t yet have a viable business model.

What do Kevin Rudd, Nicole Kidman, Coca-Cola and Nike all have in common? They are all victims of squatters of their Twitter identities, in what appears to be a growing phenomenon on the burgeoning social networking website.

Alexa Chung is set to front her own show in the US. MTV’s The Alexa Chung Show will be a mix of celebrity chat, music and online interaction with viewers, according to the music channel.

The parent company of the Food Network is dishing up a hip second helping of the popular cooking channel.

Social-networking sites popular with teens and college students are winning favor with a group that may surprise you.

Capt. Richard Phillips may have been brave when Somali pirates hijacked the ship he was navigating through the Indian Ocean.

Heidi Montag said in Twitter updates from Pasadena, California, that she and fellow The Hills star Spencer Pratt have married for a second time.

The Gordon Brown Government has revealed that it plans to monitor every phone call, email or website visit.

Could a $10 coupon code buy your friendship? It’s a proposition worth considering as more retailers dangle exclusive discounts and perks on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, where people stay connected by posting frequent updates about what they’re doing.

Oracle kicked off a busy week in IT news, announcing plans to buy Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion.

ACTOR Ashton Kutcher has pledged to donate $US100,000 he won in a bet with television network CNN to help fight the spread of malaria, the UN Children’s Fund said.

In this week Media Literacy Digest: the social value of new media, the information cycle, a nice presentation tool, and the real help we get from technology as human beings.

Photo credit: Jason Rhode

While the information cycle (the process whereby information is produced, validated, shared and re-created in other forms) has more or less stayed the same, it’s the way each process is carried out that has drastically changed across time.

Thanks to technology improvements, producing information is now a whole lot easier. Blogs, podcasts, videos allow everyone to create content with minimum effort. And to validate and share information there are plenty of social services to have others consume, re-distribute and even remix your stuff to add additional value.

What seems to be very important then, is not to focus on transient tools that produce information (as they will change frequently), but rather on the information process itself, which should be the real concern of those wanting to share knowledge and reform education paradigms.

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An Oklahoma City man is accused in a federal criminal complaint of making threats through the new Internet social networking site Twitter.

BOSTON - I am sure that Vermonters don’t like the idea of teens sending sexy pictures from one phone to another.

Members of the public will use mobile devices and the Web to choose the winner of one of the largest art prizes ever offered at a new, annual event scheduled to be announced Thursday.