Social Blogging

Schools have had to act fast to try to manage the widespread use of Facebook and other social media by students and teachers, writes Ainslie Macgibbon.

Some parents are seeking to remove a Beverly Hills psychiatrist from their child custody cases after discovering lewd photos of him on Facebook and other websites, a newspaper reported Sunday.

King George the stutterer seems primed to reign at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, unless there’s a palace coup by Mark Zuckerberg, that asocial billionaire who created Facebook.

MORE than 1,000 people have posted online tributes to a 16-year-old Blackburn boy who is said to have killed himself.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her staff remembered Gabe Zimmerman on the slain legislative aide’s 31st birthday.

Access to the networking site LinkedIn has been restored in China, a day after it was blocked following calls for Middle East-inspired protests in the country.

A New York City homeless man has tracked down a daughter he hasn’t seen in 11 years through Twitter.

News Corp has kicked off the process to explore the sale or spin-off of its troubled social entertainment site, Myspace, a person familiar with the talks said on Thursday.

Sungevity will announce Wednesday that it has hired Patrick Crane, the former chief marketing officer of social networking heavyweight LinkedIn, for the same job at the Oakland-based solar startup.

An Iraqi immigrant convicted of second-degree murder for running over his daughter because she became too Westernized now faces between 18- and 46 years in prison.

Deputies from the Alamance County Sheriff Office arrested 25-year old Cedric Lamar Crumpton after he failed to register as a sex offender online.

Christchurch Quake Map brings home disaster with a time lapse visualisation of each quake and tremor.

Washington state Congressman Rick Larsen was in New Zealand when the 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit.

The family of a teenager who was found dead on a railway track in Worcestershire on Valentine’s Day have spoken of their devastation.

Indonesians are fighting to keep Hollywood films in local theatres after the Motion Picture Association of America warned that a new tax on foreign-made movies could lead to studios pulling out of the country.