From GreenOptions.com's Sustainablog, a feature on the government's drive to get people to trade in their old clunky cars for newer more efficient ones is underway. The post started with an idea from a child who suggested that everybody with old cars trade them in for new hybrids to solve the whole global warming thingy'. Bright idea right, well somebody in Washington thought … [Read more...]
Gawker On Zuckerberg’s Resignation
From the networks, Gawker's Valleywag tackles the resignation of founding FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who resigned from the company after a threesome of disastrous corporate decisions. The first nail in his corporate coffin was the revision of the FaceBook TOS debacle which angered so many users they flooded the site with negative publicity and everything in between. It even … [Read more...]
Twitter Impostors Beware – Twitter Lawyer Invented
From the Gawker Network, a job they call as one of the most annoying ones so far from the social web, the job which we would gladly coin as the "Twitter Impostor Terminator" or a lawyer who does just as it says, takes down twitter users who are pretending to be celebrities. Well, as if these people need more publicity, it seems the transparency of the social web is still the … [Read more...]
Gawker Adopts Creative Commons Standards and a whole lot More
Gawker media, one of the blogosphere's biggest blog networks has adopted the Atribution-NonCommercial license for all their original content which makes them one of the few networks who allows use of their materials for free. This doesn't however a free for all fir there are limitations on how, what and where such original content can be used which can be found in their very … [Read more...]
Gawker on Traditional Publishers Poking into New Media
From the Gawker network, the ever updated source on information on new media has raised the alarm on the adoption of new media by traditional print publishers. This has become the norm of today's economically challenged firms, go to the net but many questions have been raised about such a move since the net was born and began to spread its global reach. This would not only be … [Read more...]
Social Media – Under Fire?
From the Blog herald: The recent issue that involved John Stewart on his unwarranted rap on social media or the new internet is a bit unwarranted for as the post in the Blog Herald says (by : Chris Garett), there are a lot of truths but also misconceptions about the whole social thingy. First, for example blogging, it started out as a medium on the internet where anybody who … [Read more...]
Splashpress Re-Launches Blogs
Nothing quite interesting on the networks, getting tired about the recession and Madoff along with each and everything Mr. President does(from his choice of soft drink to the blackberry, etc.)and how ahrder life is getting, blahhhh....blah...bla. As expected, the guys finally announced their re-launch of some of their blogs(if not all), Splashpress has announced again and … [Read more...]