Some New/Recently Released Blogs from the U.S Federal Government

Here’s a small collection of some of the blogs released by the U.S. Federal Government during the past couple of months. The listings and summaries come from USA.gov + Office of the United...

A Reminder from the Library of Congress: Newspapers on Flickr

From the Web Page: In 2008, the Library of Congress began offering historical photograph collections through Flickr in order to share some of our most popular images with a new visual community. Now,...

Preprint: Smithsonian Team Flickr: A Library, Archives, and Museums Collaboration in Web 2.0 Space

Article by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Effie Kapsalis, Katherine Spiess, Anne Van Camp, and Michael Edson [pre-print]. From the Abstract: The Flickr Commons was created as a forum for institutions to share...

MSU Professors Study Different Uses of Social Networking Sites

From The State News at Michigan State University: Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media is part of a team using about $500,000...

Social Networking Makes us Socially Awkward

From the Article: The online survey of 1,000 people found that people who use social networking sites at least once a day knew fewer of their neighbours, than those who used the sites less often. It...