mashable
Beware: a Facebook poke could land you behind bars. Just ask Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tennessee, who faces that very real possibility.Jackson was arrested and transported to Sumner County Jail on September 25th with a bond set at $1,500 after she violated an order of protection by allegedly poking a woman on F (Read More)
: That's the way the whole corporate media empire works these days though doesn't it?
Take a sensationalist soundbite and get it all out of context. Then the people watching don't really listen/watch/read the story, and before you know it, (in this case) there's a whole huge group of people going around telling everyone else that you can get arrested for poking someone on Facebook!
ReadWriteWeb
Facebook announced that it hit 200 million users today and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg made a blog post describing some of the data mining that the company is doing of those connections. It's going to be great for advertisers, she says, it it should also be very good for the rest of us as well. I think it's cr (Read More)
: I say: not a cult. For three reasons: 1. The leader is not sleeping with my wife. 2. Facebook is not depriving me of protein and making me dance. 3. The women aren't wearing Little House on the Prairie dresses.
FriendFeed ajkohn
You might guess that Target and Walmart expanded similarly (I did, at least), but you'd be wrong. Both were officially founded in 1962. However, besides more rapid growth, Walmart first expanded outwards from its home state before going country-wide while Target seems to have gone wherever opportunity knocked. (Read More)
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none (yet) -- click "share" to share with a network.
Delicious/fabcomm
Twitter is my news stream. I use it to get the best news and information from people that I trust and admire. I barely even use my Google Reader anymore because I carry my Twitter with me everywhere I go. (Read More)
: I've been looking at Twitter as a new source. There are some breaking news people I follow and I get info pretty quick. I've also been playing with Tweetdeck. It's really great, but doesn't work 100% for what I need. I'm going to keep experimenting with Twitter as a news source. I don't think I'll ever abandon Google Reader, though.
Submitted by Fruchter
from Google Reader:
There’s so much talk lately about getting more followers on twitter. If you’re a beekeeper do you really need 800 graphic designers following you? The “trick” to attracting a mix of followers you enjo... (Read More)
: Having a lot of followers means nothing. Does anybody even use Twitter that way any more? I just use search.twitter.com and external 3rd party apps to post. I rarely see the standard interface, so I'm not reading your tweets! @fruchter @hutch @michaelfidler @jasongoldberg @robdiana
: I have an aversion to apps on my PC (beyond the MSFT ones), so I've held off on Tweetdeck. But FriendFeed real-time has shown me the value of a self-updating flow of info. Maybe I'll check out Tweetdeck sometime.
ReadWriteWeb
President elect Obama will bring the President's weekly "fireside chat" into the 21st century by offering it not just on the radio, but in video on YouTube as well. It's as if the new President really cares whether the next generation has a connection to his regular work. That's where the people are - on YouTube, on MySpa (Read More)
: @cabradio I wasn't saying this could replace the news for political news. As far as I am concerned both is good. I like the idea of hearing it directly from the guys mouth. if its from him its more likely to be true then news. I don't know about you but I look at a bunch of news sources and don't take everything at face value before i consider it good news.
: @RyanCorcoran What you failed to recognize is that the President has been doing WEEKLY radio addresses for decades now. Reagan started doing them weekly. GW Bush made them available via RSS off the www.whitehouse.gov/news/radio website. Direct Info from the President HAS BEEN available. You just think it's Obama's idea. Video is Radio with pictures. He isn't doing ANYTHING new or innovative with this "video channel". It is just a progression with the technology that is now READILY available/accessible by most Americans (i.e. even those that don't have internet probably know someone who does, or can access via the Library for free).
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration is expected to draw 1 million-plus to the capital, and already some lawmakers have stopped taking ticket requests and hotels have booked up. Some people are bartering on Craigslist for places to stay for the Jan. 20 ceremony when the Illinois senator takes the o (Read More)
MSNBC
From NBC's Mark MurrayEarlier this morning, Obama's transition office announcedthat the president-elect will meet with McCain in Chicago on Monday, and they will be joined by incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of McCain's closest friends and allies.In fact, per an Obama tran (Read More)