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Facebook: “The Wild West of the Internet Tamed to Fit Suburban Fantasies of the Suburban Soul”

Good article about how Facebook has come to replace previous ways that we tried to both conform and compete with our social peers.

Facebook: Behind the Scenes

The Daily Beast did a month-long experiment to discover the inner workings of Facebook – how it determines who shows up on your News Feed, what can influence

(Yet Another) Technological Threat To Libraries

OuiBox (warning: music autoplays) is not only an online word processor and a way to connect to various social media sites but it claims to have the ability

Jessamyn West at the RPL Staff Conference

I’m pretty excited about our staff conference on Friday (although the last minute details and fire fighting gave me a bastard of a headache today so that I

Friday Fun Link – An Even Better UK Xmas #1 Campaign Than Last Year

Last year, folks online showed the growing power of social media by making a fifteen year old, anti-authority Rage Against the Machine song the UK #1 Christmas Number

Saskatchewan’s Libraries Helping to Support California Pro-Pot Legislation?!?

I could write headlines for the World Weekly News with a subject line like that! But I did catch this little tidbit in a story about how Facebook

Facebook is Down!

What does it tell you that my first instinct was to post this link on Facebook? Whether you like Facebook or not (I’m ambivalent), the Internet sure feels

The Face of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg Profile in The New Yorker

A well-written profile of Facebook’s founder and CEO. I’m not a huge fan of the guy but that’s mostly because he refused to add me as a friend

Good Article, Great Photo! The Creative Commons at Work

Shea was a bit surprised to see this article show up on Facebook tonight, especially since this random blog post happened to feature a picture of Shea and

Facebook Adding Exciting New Services While Google Is Closing Them

Maybe it’s just a quirk of timing but it seems like Facebook’s had a couple big launch announcements recently while Google’s most noticeable activity is dropping their heavily

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