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A British man was arrested by anti-terrorism police and suspended from his job after he sent a Twitter message joking that he was going to blow up an airport, a report said on Monday.

Gartner last week announced key predictions that it claims will change the nature of business today and beyond.

Whether you’re out of work or browsing for new opportunities, keeping your resume fresh and available in the right online locations could help jump-start job leads, career experts say.

They wait outside crumbled schools or shattered markets, searching for sisters, fathers, children, lovers.

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, explores and reports about emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and their possible impact on how we work, learn and communicate together.

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Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Facebook Connect - Would not it be easier to manage an online identity if all this “stuff” was in one place? Enter Facebook Connect. Instead of creating a profile with each new service, one set login tied to your Facebook profile, makes life simpler.
• Horizon Report - 2010 - The 2010 edition of the Horizon Report is now available. I will not comment on the content of the report - I am sure others will critique / approve the specific trends addressed. Instead, I want to discuss the process of putting the report together.
• Hybrid Education - Systems are created to serve the needs of an era. When eras change, systems do not… at least not until they encounter a disruptive force (in education - the financial climate looks like it may serve this role) that causes individuals to question the value of the assumptions underlying the existing systems.
• Privacy - Privacy is difficult. Our purchases, searches, and actions are recorded to varying degrees. Facebook and networking sites are pushing the boundaries of what we have in the past viewed as privacy.
• Bionics - National Geographic is one of the few publications that I think I would miss if it was only available online. Not sure why. Most magazines can be read in bits and pieces, flipping through until I discover something of relevance.
• Google and China - Whether for good motives or ill, censorship issues in China have surfaced with at least one organization adopting a “non-compliance” approach to filtering. In the larger scheme of China, privacy, rights, and openness, it is a small step (potential) step forward.

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Malaysians, especially Muslims, must avoid being totally immersed in the internet culture, especially Facebook and Twitter, said Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.

By Arnold Zafra Posted on January 15, 2010 Not so long ago, it was rumored that Facebook Connect will be implemented on MySpace.

The most poignant pictures and up-to-the-minute information coming out of Haiti in the hours right after the earthquake came from social networking sites.

Jan. 14: In a country with almost no physical infrastructure, the earthquake in Haiti is one of the first major world disasters in which social networking sites is playing such a crucial role.

There are thousands of residents of Haitian descent here in LA and many of them are struggling to make contact with loved ones back home.

MIAMI - Hans Mardy has dialed the numbers hundreds of times, praying someone - his father, his sister, one of four brothers - will pick up the phone.

A man who escaped from an open prison and allegedly taunted police about his life on the run is back behind bars.

As every year, Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson have released their groundbreaking research into the adoption of social media within the Inc. 500, the elite group of the fastest-growing companies within the United States. This is one of the first studies of corporate social media adoption with statistical significance, trying to get reliable answers to the following questions: 1) Are top US corporations adopting and using social media tools? 2) How much do they use them and how?

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Since its first edition in 2007, this study has proven quite conclusively that social media has been coming to the business world and it has been adopted and used sooner than many anticipated.

From the research and the data presented in this report, it appears that top US corporations look at the adoption of social media technologies as a mean to improve their communications approach, to build internal knowledge, to improve marketing and sales as well as to guarantee long term sustainability and growth.

The research study focuses essentially on six well-known social media technologies:

1. Blogging,
2. podcasting,
3. online video,
4. social networking,
5. message boards and
6. wikis.

In addition, the 2009 survey has been expanded to include new tools that have emerged as popular channels for top brands, like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Linkedin.

If you want to have a glimpse of where corporate America is moving next, this research on the behavior of the Inc. 500 may indeed be a treasure trove of valuable insights into what is changing when the world of executives and corporate budgets meets social media.

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No one knows exactly who started it, or how, but women on the social networking site Facebook have been posting the color of their bras! Why? Well, it’s all for a good cause.

Police in the United States are investigating what they believe is the first murder fuelled in part by messages posted on social networking site Twitter.