Social Blogging

KFC wants to give a proposal to social networking but the demand is greater than its supply; Ford Motor gets hip to social networking.

MYSPACE’S battle with Facebook is over and the News Corporation-owned website is focused on a “fundamentally different” experience by providing entertainment content, its chief executive has revealed.

FACEBOOK on Friday modified its news feed feature to let members of the world’s leading social-networking service catch up on tidbits they may have missed while away from the website.

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, brings to you a great set of news stories on emerging media, communication technologies and education-related trends. His goal is one of helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily lives.

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Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Twitter and Status Updating - Twitter has been criticized for its lack of relevance to younger internet users (teens). Some progress is being made on that front, according to a new Pew report.
• Networked Learning Hotseat - In preparation for Networked Learning 2010, conference organizers have arranged several “hot seat” sessions. A hot seat is basically a week long (mostly asynchronous) discussion on a particular theme / topic.
• Economy and Internet Trends - Mary Meeker delivered a presentation to Web 2.0 conference recently looking at the state of the economy and the Internet (powerpoint / pdf slides).
• ECAR Annual Report of Undergraduate Tech Use - The ECAR 2009 report of undergraduate IT use has been released. If you have followed these reports over the last few years, you will not find much new.
• Search: Twitter, Facebook, People - Bing and Google search deals for Facebook and Twitter are getting quite a bit of attention and commentary. Somewhat related, I just came across Cluuz - a people search tool.
• Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning - I have been thinking about what learning might / could / should look like in today’s technological age.
• LearnTrends 2009 - I am looking forward to LearnTrends 2009. The LearnTrends Innovation nominations close Oct 31. A reminder - the LearnTrends Innovation nominations close Oct 31.

Here all the details:

Blind leads the blind with social networking and they expect to see a rise in advertising and spending.

A Southern California man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after meeting a 14-year-old girl on a cell phone social networking service and using a phone to make a video recording of sex with her.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 A 38-year-old elementary school teacher and coach has admitted posing as a young woman on Facebook and talking boys into sending him nude pictures of themselves.

Social networking is coming to the science lab. Cornell University and six other institutions will use a US$12.2 million federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a Facebook-style professional networking system to link biomedical researchers across the country.

Fox Rent A Car, headquartered in Los Angeles, is using social media tools to improve customer service and build a community to share travel advice, company news and provide useful information to its base of rental customers.

Craving Dolls? Ryan Landry’s got ‘em By Murray Epstein If it’s October, it’s time for a new play by Ryan Landry.

Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz have brushed off rumors they have been banned from using social networking site Twitter .com by movie bosses.

If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.

Columnist Jan Moir’s article about the death of Stephen Gately has drawn the biggest number of complaints ever received by the Press Complaints Commission, it said.

Former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent is launching a new foundation to promote free-market principles.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center is organizing a huge protest tonight at the Cabana Club in Hollywood at 8:30 p.m. against Buju Banton, a reggae singer who is notorious for a song that glorifies the brutal murder of gay and lesbian people.