Category: Facebook

While I was busy conferencing, a few blogworthy items have come in over the virtual transom. Time to play catch up.

Brainstorm is the latest blog offering from The Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s an offshoot from The Chronicle Review, the collection of thoughtful essays that is branded online as “the magazine of ideas.” I doubt I’ll follow this one; it’s a bit too far to the highbrow end for my middlebrow tastes.

Another interesting find: Communicators Anonymous, a blog by Lauren Vargas, a marketing professor at Northwood University. This one’s going into my RSS feeds.

All your face are belong to us? Facebook has been catching it lately since the news broke that its Beacon advertising program collects data on people who aren’t even part of the Facebook network. A smattering:

• Robert Scoble on Facebook’s mishandling the PR damage control. “Facebook’s PR machinery is hiding its head in the sand and hoping this story goes away,” he writes. And: “ANYTHING would be better than the way that Facebook is handling this.”
• Overstock and other advertisers are bailing from Beacon, via TechCrunch.
• Fast Company Now asks: Is Facebook playing Big Brother?
• Privacy in the Age of User-Generated Content. Via Mashable.

All of this Facebook stuff (and the “All your face…” reference) was brought to my attention by Nathan, a recent UMR grad who still sends me blogworthy items via email. Thanks, Nathan.

txting relevant 2 educ’n? “Text2Teach was launched in 2002, and has since managed to serve 900,000 students from 204 public elementary schools” in the Philippines.

iPhone rising: Google announces fastest growing search terms. iPhone tops the list, followed by webkinz. But of course. And Britney Spears doesn’t even make the top 10.

Calling all ‘webiste’ designers: Courtney Love wants you. Or so she says in a recent, typo-ridden MySpace blog post.

There’s more stuff from the past few days in my shared RSS items.