Photos on Facebook lead to controversy and death threats

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 Posted in Social Computing, facebook | No Comments »

I just recently found out about a situation where some students at Penn State dressed as victims of the VA Tech shootings for Halloween. Apparently these costumes were meant to be part of an outrageous costume party among 10, we ...

Over 50s invading social networking sites?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Social Computing, Social Networking, facebook, myspace | No Comments »

If you think that social networking sites like myspace and facebook are only for today's youth, think again. According to a Slashdot post, which links to the full article, the poorly dubbed "Silver Surfers" are utilizing social networking sites to ...

Quality of information not dependent on user type says researchers.

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Posted in Social Computing, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Wikipedia | No Comments »

Researchers at Dartmouth College "examined Wikipedia authors and the quality of Wikipedia content as measured by how long and how much of it persisted before being changed or corrected." and found that the quality of the contributions was not negatively ...