Emory Student Gives Journalist Her Facebook Login Info

While it’s ugly and disgraceful that Atlanta’s Emory University has been the scene of on-campus incidents of obvious intolerance between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, what’s almost as distasteful is the thought of giving a journalist, of any stripe, one’s user ID and password info to one’s personal Facebook account -  just to prove a point.
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CNN Live With Facebook For Inauguration

What’s better than being on The Mall in Washington today for the Inauguration? Watching live streams from CNN.com with all your Facebook friends… warm and cozy at home with a hard-wired DSL line. This just freakin’ I-rocks!!!!

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Social Media and The Mayor

Careful what you Twitter. Now that all of Atlanta seem to be using social media tools, such as Twitter and Facebook, you will easily get what you are after. This was the case during Mayor Shirley Franklin’s annual luncheon talk with the Atlanta Press Club on Tuesday, January 13, 2009.
Between bites of the sliced chicken [...]

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NYT Proves Teens Are Boring. And A Pitiful Source of Juicy Dirt

From today’s NYTimes… about how to waste time on Facebook:
NOT long before the election, The Times published an unflattering front-page profile of Cindy McCain, inspiring a new round of accusations that the newspaper was biased against her husband. Some critics were especially angry about one of the reporting tactics: Trying to find sources for information [...]

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Stop The Classical Madness At WABE!

I can’t take it any more… 6 hours of classical music programming a day at WABE = 6 too many. Apparently I’m not the only one. So I started a Facebook Group called 6 Hours A Day = 6 Too Many! Please join the group if you’re on Facebook. And let’s let WABE know, by [...]

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Facebook & Twitter Have Got Me Now

As I’m morphing to a Facebook/Twitter online existence, today’s blog post is a video on Facebook. Find me and my endless wonders there if you dare. Blogs are unattractive and uncoordinated. Like the 24-hour news cycle… soooo last century.

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If Facebook Was, uh, Real

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WebChallenge Winners Announced!

I’m busily using the WebChallenge winners’ (Weber School duo) Facebook app, I Recommend It. To recommend the stunning re-design of the Georgia Podcast Network. Love ‘em both!

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The Wired Politician

Atlanta City Councilman, Kwanza Hall, not only created a Facebook profile, he updates it throughout the day with what he’s doing on behalf of his constituents. Via his cell phone. Now that’s your Best Web 2.0 Practice Of The Day!
Cross-posted on PP.

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“The During” – What Economists Can Learn From Facebook

From Slate today:
As any undergraduate student of economics knows, both microeconomists and macroeconomists tend to describe change in the same way that an advertisement for dishwashing detergent does: “before” and “after.” When oil cost $20 a barrel, the economy looked like this; now that oil costs $100 a barrel, the economy looks like that. Quite [...]

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