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Ashton Kutcher – Ascent To ‘Twitter’ Stardom – 1 Million And Rising
Apr 18th
While the rest trudge through Following and being Followed on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher rolled out a full-on Tweet assault and became the first Twitterer ever to rack up 1 million Followers.
Kutcher attained his coveted Twitter status just a few thousand Followers ahead of runner-up @CNNBrk who [even with Larry King] couldn’t rally the Twitter world to a million in time.
Did Kutcher (known as @aplusk on Twitter) pull off a rerun of President Obama’s grassroots campaign?
Government Must Embrace Social Networking, Not Ban It
Mar 21st
President Barack Obama was the first candidate to make extensive use of social networking tools during his campaign for the presidency. His campaign used these tools so the average user benefitted from visiting Obama’s various web sites and social networking profiles. With Obama at the helm of the United States, one would expect the President to force a bureaucratic culture change, ushering in a new era of governmental use of social networking and embracing the web. Unfortunately, the government has both embraced and banned social networking in the same breath.
New York Times Issues Facebook Gag Order – Ethical Dilemma With Social Networking
Jan 22nd
What could be perceived as a gag order, the New York Times laid out its knee-jerk ground rules in an effort to neutralize its staffers activity on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. PoynterOnline reported on a policy letter sent in from NY Times assistant managing editor, Craig Whitney.
Whitney writes:
If you have or are getting a Facebook page, leave blank the section that asks about your political views, in accordance with the Ethical Journalism admonition to do nothing that might cast doubt on your or The Times’s political impartiality in reporting the news.
Social Network Mayhem
Jan 5th
Scenario: You spin up your browser and search for someone on the Internet. Some of you load up Google – others choose Yahoo – and yet some of you surf to social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Tagged, Reunion, Classmates and (catch my breath), and so on. Irregardless of where you search, what happens next is the same: You get slammed with a deluge of results and then find yourself sifting through a lot of irrelevant clutter.
A closer peek at this social network mayhem and we notice all sites try very hard to do one thing — keep you social. ‘Try‘ being the keyword. With the advent of AJAX and site design improvements now happening everywhere — quite justifiably — social networking has become an awkward gob of repetitive bells and whistles (some cool and others weak) that make one social site [not so] different from the other.
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