Paper & Pen vs. Keyboard & Mouse (and today's poll)

In this, the Fifth of my Viner Topics series, I'm touching on the growing debate (or dying debate) about Paper & Pen versus Keyboard & Mouse. At least one of you has suggested that this has to do with Table-top Role-Playing games vs.

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Fire at the night club "Khromaya Loshad" (Lame Horse) [RUS] in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people. According to an official version, the fire was caused by fireworks inside the club.

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The Seattle Times had its largest Web traffic ever on Monday with coverage of the manhunt for a cop killer who gunned down four police officers in a nearby community. Editors credit a massive Twittering effort for much of the traffic.

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his is a summary of a paper that explores, in great depth and detail, the role of technologies that use digitally managed personal information to shape the content and direct the delivery of content in a journalistic setting.

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Bet many of you have seen them but for those who have not, read on! They are awfully hilarious.

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Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet. The challenges are more operational than technical and the payoff is efficiency.

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Web 2.0 and the Workplace of Tomorrow - Revisited

In 2007, I was commissioned by a Fortune 100 company to perform an analysis of their company's operations and suggest means by which they could become leaner and more efficient.

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Common sense advice on using and measuring the ROI on social media efforts.

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Procter & Gamble is launching an interesting way to gage customer "enjoyment" in the restroom. 

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Facebook Friend the GOP (Expect Request Confirmation in 6-8 Weeks)

Republicans dip their toes into social media, and still manage to drown.

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Why can't researchers, instead of waiting anywhere up to three years for their papers to jump all the hurdles, be part of a real-time market place – a fusion of iTunes and Last.fm for science? They pitched the idea, among others, to two of Last.fm's investors: Spencer Hyman and …

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It's almost a cliché to complain about MPs acting like children in the House of Commons.

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Verizon insists its adherence to a 768/200kpbs definition of broadband has nothing to do with resistance to upgrading its networks. AT&T says it knows that real-time video will become an essential Internet application, "over time"—but what about the here and now?

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The Importance of Correct Punctuation on Newsvine

In my experience, a good percentage of the acrimony on Newsvine results from situations where a poster's intentions are either misunderstood, or mischaracterized.

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What's Twitter Good For?

There’s a Facebook-trashing thread elsewhere on the site, in which people have begun debating the usefulness of Twitter. It took awhile to get used to, but I really like Twitter.

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TWO girls used the social networking site Facebook to call for help after getting stuck in a southern suburbs drain.

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The league wants to restrict fans' use of Twitter and Facebook to protect its TV contracts. Good luck with that.

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Starting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called "WikiTrust" will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.

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For months - years even - I've been arguing that anonymous and pseudonymous comments have no place on the Internet. I'm in no doubt that if we forced everyone who wanted to respond to a blog post or online article to use their real name, the Internet would be transformed.

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One of my favorite people to speak with about the state of content on the web is Ginny Redish. She's one of those people who cuts to the point so decisively that you're left asking yourself… "why didn't I think of that?"

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Courtesy of Webpagesthatsuck.com - some blasts from the past in terms of bad website design:

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ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 18, 2009) -- Even in the 140-character brevity demanded of a tweet, the enthusiasm was evident: "Just shot my first rounds from a M1A1 Main Battle Tank. Killed 3 of 4 targets. Best Tank on the planet!"

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Here's a quick test, a sort of free-association game: What do egocentrism, deceitfulness and aggressive criminality have in common?

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The company's free Family Tree Builder enables anyone to build family trees, research their family history, add photos and videos, and now, maps, photo albums and enhanced search capabilities.

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Twitter has been targeted by cybercriminals in a new scam aimed at stealing users' logins and passwords for the micro-blogging service.

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