Social Blogging

Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.

Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness toward GOP gubernatorial candidates.

After 89 people were caught viewing pornography on its public computers in the first six months of 2009, the Greensboro Public Library is fighting back.

Social networking sites Facebook and Twitter are to be made publicly available on Xbox 360 on November 17, Microsoft has confirmed.

BRANDED the Devil incarnate by his victim’s family, a murderer will serve at least 20 years in prison after executing a mother in front of two of her daughters.

Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:21 p.m. Read more: National , Politics , Politico , Politics , Sarah Palin , Going Rogue , Associated Press , Erroneously Reporting , Facebook , John Mccain Former Alaska GOP Gov.

A thug jailed for stabbing a boy in the chest has taunted his terrified victim from prison via the social networking website Bebo.

In this week issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, explores and reports about his new media technologies discoveries and their possible impact on how we work, learn and communicate together.

Photo credit: Ktsdesign

Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• LearnTrends - Reminder, next week, Jay Cross, Tony Karrer, and I (with support from many others!) are running LearnTrends 2009
• Random Social Media Resources - Moving Away from Social Media to Business Focus, Social Learning Examples, Overcoming Obstacles to the Social Business
• Learning Management Systems? Or Social Networking? - In a post on my connectivism site, I argue that the future of learning will be in social networking services, not in learning management systems (an assertion not everyone agrees with - see the comments in the post).
• TEKRI - Readers of this blog (or newsletter) are likely aware that I recently made a transition from University of Manitoba to Athabasca University. With the joys of geographical moves (I am now located in Edmonton), life is a bit chaotic.
• Networking U - Like the rest of society, universities and colleges are reacting to social networking technology - Networking U
• Data and Visualization - The one dominant effect of the web is the externalization or giving-shape to aspects of our daily lives that used to vaporize. For example, the ever prominent water cooler provided a space to converse. But, once the conversation was done, it vaporized.
• Cloud Computing In Plain English - CommonCraft explains Cloud Computing in Plain English. It is a (very) broad overview of cloud computing, explaining it from the perspective of a business owner.
• Turing’s Cathedral - I am an advocate for technology use for learning, teaching, and interacting. Not quite at a transhumanist level, but still an advocate. Sometimes, I am enthralled with the limitless potential of the web.

Here all the details:

Some employers are blocking social networking sites over fears that employees are spending more time socializing online than they are on their jobs, China Daily reported Friday.

As companies around the globe position themselves for economic recovery, Verizon Business has identified 10 business technology trends that will help companies grow their business in 2010.

You may want to check Facebook and Twitter before heading to the mall the day after Thanksgiving.

A 19-year old man in search of some pancakes has Facebook to thank for criminal charges being dropped against him.

A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is an influential voice in English-language Internet forums increasingly used by militants unfamiliar with Arabic.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has launched an array of enhanced iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features and social web-based offerings with the release of upcoming titles “Bruno,” “Funny People,” “9,” “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” “Public Enemies” and “Inglourious Basterds,” all available this holiday season.

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts announced today the launch of the new sheraton.com, the first hotel industry website to feature Facebook Connect and allow visitors to interact with their friends and family by sharing their travel experiences through today’s most popular social networking site.