Tag: social network sites
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Gender differences in response to Skittlemania
Sunday night, Agency.com relaunched the Skittles* website as a redirect to social network sites. The main page showed a Twitter search for “skittles”. Other links went to flickr, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Hilarity ensued, with “#skittles” shooting to the #1 Twitter term for the day. With over 4000 blog posts and positive articles in the Wall…
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Scenarios for #topprog: your thoughts?
Last night’s #topprog Tweetup, discussing the next steps for the new progressive Twitter hashtag, had some excellent discussions.  Chris Cardinal (aka @cacardinal) has set up a skeleton web page on topprog.org and did a great job facilitating the tweetup; he’ll be writing up a summary later today.  Somehow, though, I wound up with an…
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“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)
Draft. Work in progress — feedback welcome! The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal
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No blank check for Wall Street: Send a message to Congress!
The $700 billion dollar bailout legislation will result in a huge expense to taxpayers — with all the benefits going to corporations and large stockholders. Most economists think that this plan will fail to address the underlying issues that caused the crisis. And there are many other issues for concern in the bill, such as…
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No blank check to Wall Street: Call to action!
No blank check for Wall Street is a multi-partisan group of people demanding accountability for Wall Street for its role in the 2008 financial crisis. We welcome those who oppose a bailout as well as those support a bailout with accountability.  Please see our website for more. Our Facebook feed is the best way to…
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No blank check for Wall Street! (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Final version posted on OpenLeft and Pam’s House Blend Executive Summary: please check out the No blank check for Wall Street Facebook page, add yourself as a fan, let your friends know, and blog about it. How to help: If you’re on Facebook, it takes next to no time to sign up as a…
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“Where do you get your political news?”
when reading blogs, make a point to get a range of perspectives, starting with those that are shut out from the mainstream news. Reviewing an earlier draft of Allies in the blogosphere, one of my friends asked me for more details on this. Rather than bury it in an comment, I figured that it was…
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Phyllis Schafly to get Honorary Doctorate from Wash U?
The intro of the No honorary doctorate for anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly Facebook group: Wash. U. will honor anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly at commencement. WHAT? This is the woman who lives the hypocrisy of having a career that takes her around the country lecturing “family values” groups on how women should stay home. This is the woman…
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Coverage for ‘How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech’
The two-part series I posted on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki is starting to get some coverage. Shai Sachs has an excellent piece on MyDD: There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Facebook “censorship” of free speech. The Blackadder One case I wrote about a couple weeks ago was just an…
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Grr: “Our terms of service has changed”
This morning when I went to log in to a discussion forum on Yuku (“your interests, your communities” — the next-generation, friend-enabled version of ezboard), I was greeted with: Our terms of service has changed. Please read the new terms of service. By clicking “I agree,” you agree to Yuku’s Terms of Use. Oh, they…