This is interesting, given the political environment in China: In a country where news organizations can't hold the government to account, China's social media sites, with their ready potential for citizen journalism, have become the primary forums for protest and...

The internet in Xinjiang is being very slowly opened up again. Here are the currently permitted sites: *7 News Sites (including China Daily and CCTV) * 4 Travel Sites (including Ctrip and Air China) * 3 Business & Finance Sites...

I can easily see this happening! Click on the image for a full-sized view of this projected version of all that will remain of social networking sites after Jacqui "Jackboots" Smith and her comrades have done their worst…The comments at Old Holborn's site are also worth a look.

An interesting site maintained by Mouvement Démocrate which aims to provide a portal to gather together social media web 2.0 sites maintained by French democrats and supporters of the Mouvement Démocrate. It includes links to blogs, facebook and flickr sites maintained by supporters as well as regular press reviews, news stories and a blog tv . A good starting point for tracing the l...

There is a problem with SNS (social networking sites) that is the ability to use the various social media sites and reach a wide audience and engage with them: “Currently, Social Media is disparate and fragmented, making the conversation difficult to track, find, and use”. What brands are developing is the ‘Social Media Press Release' which collapses together the information of a...

For the last hour and a half or so all sorts of sites (including this one, the site for the hosts, the Speccie, Bishop Hill, various US sites as well) have been coming up as 503, or can't find, various types of "nope, you can't go there sonny". Other sites (the newspapers say) have been coming

Nick Clegg has said that the government is not going to start "cutting people off" from social media sites in the wake of the riots earlier this month.

Devon County Council is one step ahead of the game in coping with the recent outbreak of swine flu. It has created an e-learning course to train social care staff on how to cope with a flu pandemic. This interactive e-learning, is available now to all members of Learning Pool - the public sector e-learning exchange.

Home secretary to host meeting with social media representatives and police to discuss how networking sites were used to plan riots

Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the government under anti-terror plans.