Social Blogging

Facebook has become the top social network in a majority of European countries for the first time, according to analytics firm ComScore’s newly released figures for February.

Twittering is just so high school. At least that’s the feeling we got Tuesday night at the Hollywood premiere of 17 Again , where the film’s star Zac Efron and his significant sweetie, Vanessa Hudgens , told E! News they are not at all into the latest communication craze - or any other kind of social messaging networks, for that matter.

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have given their support to Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle.

NEW YORK: EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering.

The European Commission has called for tougher protection of internet users’ privacy, urging a review of rules protecting personal information in the light of technological progress.

R&B star Cassie has stunned fans with a bold new look - the singer has shaved half of her hair off.

Throughout the Easter weekend, and continuing this morning, the staff at Twitter has been trying to quell an outbreak of a computer worm created by the 17-year-old owner of a social-media Web site.

The Fiji Times also removed its popular social networking page from its website, saying the government had issued regulations requiring publishers to first submit all content to officials for clearance before publishing it.

“Police are finding websites created to keep people connected with family and friends are also used for criminal activity.

The recently concluded session did not seem like the a oeodd-year,a short 30-day session.

State transportation officials will use the popular social networking site Twitter to provide evacuation information during this year’s hurricane season.

“We’re working to give you access to every damn Google service with a Google Apps account — yep every damn one of them.

In this week Media Literacy Digest: data visualization, advances in robotics technology, alternative approaches in education, the future of academic courses and the newspaper crisis.

Photo credit: Stephen Downes

If from one hand newspapers want to ride the online business opportunities available to them, while spreading their content to a wider readership, on the other hand they still want to maintain complete control over what is published, thus eradicating at the source any effort to share or redistribute.

But “openness and content control are two separate tightropes. Both can’t be walked at the same time“.

So, what is the right thing to do? To share or not to share? Whichever the correct answer, for George Siemens it is the inability of newspapers to choose a precise editorial strategy, consistently, that really rubs salt into newspapers wounds.

If you want to explore new thoughts and the opportunities offered by some of these new emerging content distribution models, Dr Siemens weekly pointers and intellectual ponderings may help you make sense of some of the disruptive changes taking place all around you.

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Yes, that is me. I opened a Facebook account just to cash in on $25 worth of free advertising.

The Red Cross is campaigning through social networking sites on the internet for the first time to share and encourage personal acts of humanitarian compassion worldwide.