ReadWriteWeb
Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being utilized. The colleg (Read More)
: Interesting. I know here at my school many professors do not see your questions/concerns through email as legit unless they are sent through a school source (school e-mail); they are afraid they are spam. Most young kids create immature and embarrassing e-mail names ("stud", "hot", "baby"). In this case, they (probably) will create a new one when they start college if the school doesn't give them one. I know Google runs our school e-mail now and it great. I just can't imagine eliminating the school e-mail addresses altogether verification reasons.
Submitted by Geek Mommy:
Who certified that voting machine you used? Do you want to know? Do you want to know that they are losing their accreditation. Do you want to know how long it's gone on for? nah. (Read More)
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Submitted by Michaelfidler:
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.". (Read More)
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Think you know what you’re doing every time you engage in social media? Neither do I, and neither do the social media gurus I spoke to about their biggest social networking blunders. In an effort to learn from others’ mistakes, here’s a list of some all-star errors in judgment from some social media all stars. I’ll lead off (Read More)
: @sarahcrisman I appreciate your honesty too. When I wrote my comment I had no idea that this article would get so popular. I think it would be funny to have a post, where everybody can reveal the most embarrassing thing they did online. What do you think!
ReadWriteWeb
The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find out. We asked 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants to tell us how much they get paid, by the post, by the ho (Read More)
: @billspaced i had the volume turned up in the global financial crisis news network and this story has the topics economics and economy in it so it made it in. Good lesson to learn from.
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Al Gore may not have invented the Internet, but he did co-found Current.tv, the cable TV network with a strong web presence. Stopping by the company’s San Francisco offices earlier this evening, Gore told a small group of techies, Twitterers and bloggers: “I’ll be on Twitter by tomorrow”. (Read More)
: This is ridiculous, why would anyone care what Al Gore tweets about? He is not in government, he is not in the media, he is in the movie business.
I would much rather see more congressional reps. using Twitter. I don't need anymore tweets about environmentally friendly stuff, I already have plenty of them.
: That actually ups my respect level for him - this election has gotten disgustingly petty... at a time when we really need leadership we can look up to, not tear down.
: Isn't *that* the truth!! While I respect the heck out of @Ev, @Biz, and @Jack - Twitter is certainly the least responsive to their community that a social media site could be. Ah well.
The LinkedIn Blog
You can never go wrong by starting off the week with LinkedIn Answers' question of the week. Hopefully, with each passing question that we highlight, you get to stumble upon yet another category that you did not realize existed within Answers' extensive ecosystem. This week, we focus on a category that's top of mind for mo (Read More)
: I'm just not able to get up the urge to plurk. Twitter does the job just fine for me. Between socialmedian, Twitter, friendfeed, i'm all set. What am I missing? Then again, I never really got into myspace either.
: I would contend that, with services like hellotxt, they all can coexist. There are pieces of all that I like (i have a plurk, ff, and twitter-follow me!), and there are parts that I dont. There is no reason that there can only be one.