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TechCrunch-Twitter Dust-Up

Some bickering broke out this week between Michael Arrington at TechCrunch and the folks at Twitter about some documents leaked to Mr. Arrington and then published in a column/post. I haven’t been...

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Future of Newspapers – Debate Rages (?)

Debate about the future of newspapers won’t die for some time yet I think . . . at least among journalists, news media watchers, some bloggers and Clay Shirky. Roy Greenslade on Greenslade Blog wrote...

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Social Media and Civic Engagement

The British magazine Prospect featured a debate this month between Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky about the advantage — or danger — the Web brings to global politics, civic life and the pursuit of such...

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Social Media ‘Advocacy’

Domino’s on a Roll As a corporate reputation watcher, I like to find examples of new takes on traditional reputation building. Here’s one to watch at a website called pizzaturnaround.com. Domino’s...

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Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Literacies

Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs among other writings on technology and culture, spoke (inspirationally) last Thursday at Toronto’s Ryerson University about the use of social media in education....

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Gladwell on the Sidelines

Malcolm Gladwell tends to write about what exists and why, not what is coming into existence and what it means or how to advance it. In an article in the October 4th issue of The New Yorker called...

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A Random Social Web Walk . . . With Voting

Some random social web information and ideas: From Mashable, a tongue-firmly-in-cheek campaign from the marketing firm Proximity will see the person who checks in most frequently on Foursquare at the...

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Twitter Helping Politicians Use Itself

According to ClickZ (via KStreet Café) Twitter has hired Adam Sharp to provide advice to DC politicians and bureaucrats on how to use the micro-blogging platform for the pubic good. Why? “A Twitter...

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Info-Images + One Cartoon 2010

The images and infographics below struck a cord with me for a variety of reasons throughout the year. And be patient with the scrolling. There are six images in all . .  . and the best one is the last....

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