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Here are some suggested things to say if you want to sound like an idiot when you talk about social media:

namewithoutwords — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:13:22 -0800

How to say stupid things about social media Arguing for the banality of user-created content vis-a-vis social networks.

Pundits - Do Keep Up!

divabat — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:34:07 -0800

Embrace the web! It’s the same mantra that we hear day in, day out, from various sources; always those who have a vested interest in convincing us that artists are not doing so. These people seem to be the pundits, or people who want music to be free, and artists to make money in other ways - either by touring or by ‘monetising their experiential awareness’. Are these people the only people in the world who don’t receive a thousand spams a day from bands on Myspace, from people on Facebook suggesting that they become a fan, from dullards on twitter?

poke. poke. poke. ....?

special-k — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:21:19 -0800

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego.

Rage Against the Machine up for Christmas No.1 in the UK

amil — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:14:55 -0800

Rage Again against the Machine's Killing in the name is up for Christmas No.1 chart song in the UK due to a Facebook Campaign In a campaign against the usual reality show X-Factor Christmas No.1, a group on Facebook has managed to persuade people in the UK to buy Killing in the Name by Rage against the Machine this week. So far they have managed to hold onto the the top spot.

Nonja

fontophilic — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:54:25 -0800

Nonja, like many 33 year old Austrians, has been taking dozens of photos of herself, her friends, and her surroundings and posting them to facebook. She's got 41,000+ friends. What makes her special? She's an orangutan. Nonja has tried her hand at painting, and now takes photos with a wi-fi enabled camera. Each shot is rewarded with a raisin. A few favorites: Vladimir the alpha male, some wrinkly orangutan skin, licking the camera, a self portrait.

You motherf$%&*#rs are all on notice

psmealey — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:36:02 -0800

Facebook Profiles Capture True Personality Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin. Findings will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researchers include: Gosling and Sam Gaddis (The University of Texas at Austin), Mitja Back, Juliane Stopfer and Boris Egloff (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany), Simine Vazire (Washington University in St. Louis), and Stefan Schmukle (Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany).

I Can Quit Anytime I Want!

ShawnStruck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0800

Internet Vices: various Web 2.0 sites and services, recast as drugs and alcohol. For example, myspace "is huffing spray paint: Destroys any chance of looking credible. You will be perceived as having the mindset of a middle schooler, and probably do."

Ask Recipe Labs: a Q&A site for Cooking

filthy light thief — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:17:40 -0800

Ask Recipe Labs is a cooking-related question and answer site, based off of the Stack Overflow structure (prev). Ask Recipe Lab is the newest part of collection of recipe-based sites, which includes Recipe Puppy (an ingredient based recipe search engine, prev. from MeFi Projects), Cook Thing (how to cook anything, by picking a dish and the ingredients you wish to use), and Recipe Labs (social recipe repository, allowing quick tweaks to existing recipes). [via mefi projects]

"No credit card needed to receive FarmCash within minutes."

jbickers — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:35:13 -0800

"I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away." So said Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, the company behind social games like Mafia Wars and Farmville. It's the latest revelation in a week-long bit of drama between TechCrunch and the companies running the shady virtual currency that makes the games profitable. At issue are the in-game offers to receive points/currency in exchange for filling out surveys, taking IQ tests or agreeing to trial offers. Many result in a recurring and unadvertised charge on the user's mobile phone bill, while others are even more brazen. Especially entertaining in all of this: Michael Arrington from TechCrunch confronts Anu Shukla, CEO of Offerpal Media, at a virtual goods summit two weeks ago. He says her services facilitate fraud, punish legitimate advertisers and create a self-perpetuating cycle of deceit. Her response: "shit, doubleshit, and bullshit." Her company blog later responded in more CEO-like fashion. Also fascinating: A former Facebook spammer talks about how it's done, and the underlying technology that makes it all possible.

Asymmetrical friendship: The pressure to be positive on social-networking sites

joeclark — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:07 -0800

Asymmetrical friendship: Tired of the relentless positivity of social-networking sites, where, as on Facebook, all you can be is a “friend” of someone? Greg Smith responds to a journal article that addressed the topic, among others; Smith calls for “asymmetrical friendship – this is cynicism put to good use.” Because there are times when somebody “friends” you on Facebook when what you think of them is more along the lines of “enemy combatant.” Flickr may have gotten this right, or less wrong: Everyone is a “contact,” but may also be “friend” or “family.” XFN, which MetaFilter uses to set up relationships among contacts, explicitly rejected negative or enemy connotations, something Jeremy Keith et al. rectified with XEN.

THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES YOU RICHARDS!!!

griphus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:36:36 -0800

Super-Social Networking: Superhero Facebook Status Updates

I tire of your analog attitude.

geekyguy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:12:59 -0800

The Social Media Guru (SLYT)

Self-segregation on social networks?

Marky — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:27:28 -0800

Are social networks becoming segregated by choice?

"MySpace is no longer cool. As a matter of fact, its number of users is now one-half the size of rival Facebook. Is this because MySpace is too black for the rest of America? Teenage Internet users may hold the answer. High-schoolers report their use of the social-networking giants along racial lines—MySpace is seen as “black,” while Facebook is “white.”

WaPo's Social Media Guidelines

Ike_Arumba — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:42:52 -0800

The Washington Post has issued new Social Media Guidelines for all employees. From the memo: "All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens." Further: "Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility." Staff writer Gene Weingarten had an inspired Tweet to mark the occasion.

Facebook outing

Kirth Gerson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:23:30 -0800

It started as a simple term project for an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier. Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay.

PC World gone Mad

mippy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:33:04 -0800

Things seem to be going from bad to worse in PR terms for the Dixon Stores Group. First, PC World was voted one of the worst high-street stores in Britain. Then, their staff Facebook group reveals a lot of somewhat interesting comments abotu their customers. "[name removed] wroteat 22:49 on 16 July 2007 im sorry, but this sort of stuff would get you into trouble if it wa leaked on the public view! remember youtube? how mad did headoffice go with that, doesnt look professional and all. my advise is, becareful of what you put, we can have a laugh, but plz dont be too silly with this!"

Asserting Your Social Status With Your Facebook Status

geoff. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:37:06 -0800

There are five key rules to using your status update to maximum status-signifying effect. Learn from the masters: "(to the dude on the A train who said he was NYLON's digital director, attempting to impress some girl 1. Nice try but that's my job 2. And I'm flattered but that's some wishful thinking, babe, because it's an amazing job but it's sadly never gotten me laid!)" By placing her bragging in the lying mouth of a subway stranger, this updater covertly asserts the prestige of her position and at the same time insulates herself against similar claims. Particularly masterful is the covert assumption here that her position is one sufficiently grand to be the ethereal stuff of A train boasting.

Government using Facebook and MySpace to find tax cheats

reenum — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:49:49 -0800

Tax authorities using social networks to find tax cheats Yet another reason to be careful who you accept a friend request from.

Canada Reigns In Facebook

shoesfullofdust — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:08:13 -0800

Facebook agrees to privacy changes [Flash video | article]. After an investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, which found that Facebook gave "confusing or incomplete" privacy information to subscribers and gave developers "virtually unrestricted access to Facebook users’ personal information", Facebook has agreed to address the Privacy Commissioner’s concerns. “These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million Facebook users in Canada and around the world will be far better protected.” - Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. "The notion that some teenager, working in a basement halfway around the globe, that could have access to all of this personal information was unsettling, to say the least." - Elizabeth Denholm, Deputy Privacy Commissioner.

Two baguettes, lettuce, teeny tiny man...

markkraft — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:40:41 -0800

Christopher Moore has been to Paris lately, and has decided to share some of his vacation snaps, and, most amusingly, teach us a bit of French.

In related news, productivity around the world jumped exponentially...

zarq — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:14:01 -0800

On Tuesday, Gawker media was taken offline by a German ddos attack. Today, three of the 'net's largest social media sites: Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal, are experiencing similar outages. Twitter now reports they are under a denial-of-service attack.

Canada getting all up in your Facebook

stinkycheese — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:47:29 -0800

In response to a complaint by law students at the University of Ottawa in May of 2008, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that Facebook is operating contrary to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. In other words, Facebook is breaching Canadian privacy law. Facebook has pledged to work with the Canadian government on this issue, and has 30 days to comply; if the Commissioner remains unsatisfied with their progress, they may take the case to Federal Court to force compliance.

Easier than Twister

furtive — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:06:47 -0800

The lying down game.

Quizbook

chuckdarwin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:45:04 -0800

Run Firefox with greasemonkey and Facebook Purity to free yourself from the Tyranny of Facebook Quizzes. It's the nuclear option, and it works... like the bomb. BOOM. No more quizzy.

Men who like to hear themselves talk?

desjardins — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:00:43 -0800

The top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. Twitter is dominated by men, whereas other social networks tend to be dominated by women. Is Twitter biased towards men?