Two Free e-​​Books on Social Media

Two more down­load­able social media guides that caught my eye over the last couple of weeks.

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Surrender! Foucault and Twitter

Some of my early hopes for social media, that it rep­res­ented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renais­sance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry.

There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media con­cerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-​​​​Michéle Ross. The first

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A Blog Code of Ethics

Update:

Toulmin was appar­ently quoted out of context in the original story and the BBC has changed their story to show a more balanced opinion.

The Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks blogs should be covered by a vol­un­tary code of practice like that for UK news­pa­pers. The BBC reports that he made the remarks

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