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<em>Mondoville's</em> top 40 media stories for 2009

Have at it. Mondoville, a start-up blog featuring the technical skills of Geo Perdis and the acerbic talents of Marc Weisblott, went with the CBC News relaunch and the firing of Edward Greenspon at the Globe and Mail as its top two stories. I will be coming out with my own list of news stories [...]

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Mon, December 21 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

A tale of two NYT marquee journalists

Oddly enough, a social media consultant can't praise the NYT's Nicholas D. Kristof enough, while inferring his colleague Thomas L. Friedman is stuck in the Web 1.0. Why? Hint: Kristof's on Facebook, Friedman isn't. From Conversation Agent: (seen first on Twitter) This is a great use of an interactive tool to build community around ideas and connections. [...]

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To save themselves, they had to kill their Facebook accounts

Seems the addictive nature of Facebook is forcing some teens to go cold turkey and defriend the ubiquitous social network or take other measures to control their useage. From the NYT: Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on [...]

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