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Facebook Subscriptions: Overdrive for Journalists?

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Though I understand its appeal, I’ve never found Facebook compelling. That’s why I’ve so far stuck with Twitter and its follower model and dallied with Google Plus and its concept of differentiated social circles. Even Facebook recognized a practical limit to friendship, restricting one’s maximum number of friends to 5000.

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The Key to Understanding New Media Is Attitude, Not Technology

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A couple of years ago, Gina Trapani , the founder of Lifehacker and a cohost of This Week in Google , wrote and self-published the Complete Guide to Google Wave , which she described as “an experiment in iterative publishing.” As I wrote yesterday , Pinterest is not for everybody and is not trying to be the next Facebook.

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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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Will they sometimes wax too enthusiastic about new tools that turn out to be dead ends, like Jaiku , FriendFeed , or Google Wave ? But they’ll also bring to light valuable new platforms as well, like Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps even Google Plus. The benefits of early adopters don’t end with identification or advocacy.

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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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What Would Google Do? , Your latest tweet and comment on Facebook and most recent blog post? “No longer is the media world one of a publishers-top editor-section editor-subeditor-journalist hierarchy. Today, audiences are in charge and they want direct access to, and interaction with, journalists.”. by Jeff Jarvis.

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The Privacy Canard: David Lazarus and the Evils of Facebook

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In the Los Angeles Times today, columnist David Lazarus, a writer I admire, wrote an oddly bitter piece inspired by the Facebook IPO, wondering why so many people under 30 just don’t care about privacy: It’s not just that we no longer feel outraged by repeated incursions on our virtual personal space. Privacy is so 20th century.

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