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Regardless of your opinions of how you feel about Child Sex Predators, or how you feel about a story like this, there are some interesting things that need to be addressed. In the UK a court has requested that Facebook take down a page that seeks to collect and share sex predator information across the [...]

I have been working on some alternatives to Smugmug over the last 24 hours since I finally bit the bullet and decided that it is time to go, as I explained here yesterday. What I am seeing is that the sites are basically breaking down into two categories, showcase and warehouse. While my experience doesn’t [...]

Over the last couple of days I have seen content removed from Facebook and my account locked out for a bit, including everything tied into Facebook. And I have also been working with Smugmug because while nudity is not allowed apparently someone decided to complain that there was nudity in my galleries on Smugmug. Not [...]

This has been a very interesting week for employers and Facebook. I have been writing about this story over on Toolbox, here and here if you are interested in reading,     but on this site I want to go a little deeper into the idea of asking prospective employees for a username and password [...]

If you have ever read Failbook over at the wonderful I Can Haz Cheezeburger site then you will see a collection of grammar disasters as well as some unique spelling ideas for common words we use every day. While the Google Docs team is very proud of enhancing their spell check to incorporate new words [...]

The more you look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. You can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better your [...]

Social Networking is facing the prospects of being deputized by the Australian Federal Police, Facebook, and other social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the most important sources for intelligence about people. Forget neighbors talking to the police, now we are looking at our socially connected world as being involved with law enforcement.   [...]

Jet Blue has two approaches to the use of social media, external and internal. The use of external social media comprises Twitter, a pseudo blog “Flight Log” that has not been updated since October 2007, Facebook and MySpace pages. There is also a YouTube channel that is updated occasionally.  Internal use was field tested via [...]