T/S Network Activity

Here's a video put out by Google today, explaining how they plan to compete with Facebook. The new toy is called Google Buzz, and it builds on the communication networking models of sites like Twitter and Facebook. Sharing, starting conversations, aggregating content and photographs, and reaching out to strangers, it all [...]

On the heels of my post about Republicans' dominance on Twitter comes news of another government official who is not so eager to embrace the social-networking tool. Via Romenesko, the Baltimore Sun reports that an administrative judge for the Baltimore Circuit Court has banned "the use of any device to [...]

Jet-Set Hobo reels in shock. 'Sir' Mick Jagger accepting a knighthood and becoming a gym junkie was one thing. Ron Wood making a fool of himself over nubile Russians is another. All too predictable. Jagger always was the business man of the group, and Ron, well, he's your true sex-addicted satyr. [...]

It's been generally accepted that the Super Bowl commercials this year were particularly sexist – and not just in that awesome TITS EVERYWHERE! way that I can get behind (kidding!).  The two greatest offenders this year were the Dodge Charger spot, in which straight men list the horrible tasks they complete [...]

"Coulrophobia" is fear of clowns. Clowns scared me as a kid, watching in horror as dozens scampered from a very tiny car, hitting each other in the face with a board. Why the hitting? Why?! Make it stop! Why?!!? I still find clowns, and children's party entertainers in general, just plain creepy. [...]

There is, apparently, what might be called a Neuroscience of Belly Dancing — including a small literature on what skills at a young age predict belly dancing ability at an older age. If you've got nothing better to do this afternoon, you can read all about it in "Impact of motor [...]

The South Carolina Republican Party apparently feels that they aren’t conservative enough yet, so they’ll be uniting with tea party groups. That ought to do it.

The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it’s uniting with tea party groups in the state to share resources, coordinate messaging and [...]

The city of Chicago's reputation for driving away business continues unabated. When city health inspectors visited a shared kitchen last week, they destroyed hundreds of dollars of food, then came back and did it again. All in the name of city licensing. Chicago Tribune reporter Monica Eng was there, observing for [...]

Michelle Obama kicked off her "Let's Move" campaign to end childhood obesity today and she offered the frightening statistics that one in three children today are obese and this generation is on track to have a shorter life span than their parents. (Also, bizarre and frightening, obesity is now one [...]

Based on some fantastic clickthrough numbers for news links shared on Facebook, we're seeing new interest in what the Social Networking giant will be doing to change News' face. The core concept is this: links of interest shared by one friend get clicked-though by others. As of this writing, links to [...]