BBC NEWS | Technology | Social networks 'are new email'
Status updates on sites such as Facebook are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival hears.
Journalism evolving, not dying: science author
Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving, an acclaimed science writer told a gathering of the techno-hip at South By South West Interactive Festival on Friday.Steven Johnson equated newspapers to old growth forests, saying that under the canopy of that aged ecosystem blogging, citizen journalism, Twittering and other Internet-age information sharing is taking root.
Connection more trick than tweet
This is a great article by Annabel Crabb of the SMH on how politicians are using twitter to attract new audiences, gain trust and seem "cool". But, some of them, like Kevin Rudd, still use "old-school methods" - getting their media deparments to update their twitter accounts.
Facebook fun goes mobile - Technology - smh.com.au
Do we really need to be connected 24hrs a day?
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