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Americans’ Valentine’s Day Plans via Social Networking Sites

14 February 2011
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Are you honest about your relationships status on social networking sites? Do you display the name of your significant other on your site? How have you spent this past Valentine’s weekend? How will you spend today? Did you buy or do you plan to buy a gift for your significant other?
These questions and [...]

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Twitter Map of Profanity — Polite Plains & Profane Mountains

28 January 2011
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Have you ever wondered in what locations people swear more or less versus other geographic locations? I can’t say I have, either. Having said that, sometimes too much data can be a wonderful thing — if one has a sense of humor, that is.
Cartographer Daniel Huffman has used “1.5 millon geocoded tweets from last March [...]

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The Information Explosion and Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom

24 January 2011
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The information explosion. What does that mean to you? Does it mean multi-tasking, multiple Internet-enabled devices, cyber-friends, a vast database of knowledge at your fingertips…and a sense of being overwhelmed with too much information?
If you were an adult before the World Wide Web became common, are you more informed or less informed because of the [...]

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The Digital Nativity or Christmas 2.0

4 January 2011
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The video below tells the story of the Nativity using social media. ViralVideosNr1 uses “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, [and] Amazon” to tell the story of the birth of Jesus.
For example, as Irina Slutsky at AdAge writes, “after Mary gets a text message on her iPhone from the Archangel Gabriel [...]

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Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

3 January 2011
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How do you manage all of the distractions from the data and information thrown at you from social media, email, the Web, chat and [insert name of app here]? Well? Not-so-well? Do you focus on one task at a time, or do you multi-task?
David McCandless of Information is Beautiful created this Hierarchy of Digital Distractions [...]

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Social Media Explained in Plain English

11 November 2010
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What is “Social Media”? How did it develop? What does it do? How does it benefit consumers and companies?
That is, if you want to define the term “Social Media” to someone who does not work in technology, how do you explain it?
For example, SearchEngineWatch defines Social Media as a technical definition that assumes the reader [...]

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The Social Media Revolution in Numbers

8 November 2010
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Is social media a fad? Or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Do you like what social media says about your brand? More importantly — Are You Ready?
Socialnomics runs the numbers in this entertaining animation about the social media “revolution”. For example, how many years did it take radio, television, the Internet, the iPOD, [...]

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Satire No. 2: Colbert Takes on Eric Schmidt, Google, and Facebook’s Mining and Selling of Personal Data

8 September 2010
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Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, “predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites”. Schmidt made the statement in an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins that ran [...]

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Facebook’s Privacy Issue — We’re Each Responsible

7 February 2010
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CNN’s Ali Velshi interviews John Abell regarding how much privacy consumers should expect when using Facebook and other social media. I think John Abell gives a rather balanced response. I agree with him that as part of managing my personal data, the information I put on FB is mine, and that when I leave I [...]

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