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• After a Spontaneous Snowball Fight, a Social Media Flurry

  —City Room

  Number of comments: 14
  Calls for snowball fights were posted on Craigslist, Facebook and Twitter, and yet, in Times Square on Saturday night, at least one happened the old-fashioned way. [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  by By EMILY S. RUEB

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• Around The Blogosphere 21 December 09

  —Dave Lucas

  Here's a nice story for this Holiday Time! Once Upon A Blog, there was a Princess...
  
  Christmas Cards(?) Bai-Ling style.
  
  President Bill Clinton reflects on the accomplishments of the Clinton Foundation in 2009 and wishes his Facebook fans a happy holiday season.
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  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:58pm EST
  

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• Michael Jackson Is More Important Than Afghanistan [Journalismism]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 4
  The Associated Press asked editors and news directors to vote for their top news stories of 2009. They asked the same of the general public on Facebook. What do we learn when we compare the results?...

  
  

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  Posted: December 21, 2009, 6:24am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

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• Why, Thank You Ad Age [Self-referential]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 45
  Let's make a list of this decade's ten most important web sites: Got to have Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Youtube on there. Add in Wikipedia, Amazon, Hulu, the Drudge Report, NYTimes.com. Oh, and...

  
  

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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:50pm EST
  by Gabriel Snyder

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• Making Facebook Pay [Your Privacy Is An Illustion]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 39
  Facebook doubtlessly hoped forcing open user profiles would help the social network compete more profitably with open systems like Twitter. But there could well be a multi-million-dollar price to pay...

  
  

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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Slim Kerik Looking Lean And Clean As Prison Sentence Looms

  —Gothamist

  

  Well, hello there! It looks like disgraced former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik has been prepping for prison by eating plenty of tossed salad. Recent Facebook photos show the convicted felon looking fit and fetching—a lot less Sergeant Schultz and a little more [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:36am EST
  by John Del Signore

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• The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 120
  While covering Facebook's systematic elimination of privacy, we've been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings...

  
  

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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Battlefield iPhones to Run Facebook of War [World Of Warcraft]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 7
  Raytheon made an iPhone app for mapping units a combat zone, and for new types of communication, like "friending" other tanks. It'll presumably sell for, like, $50,000 in Apple's military app store,...

  
  

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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:51pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Blocked on Facebook: Gawker Facebook Privacy Guide [Censorship]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 46
  A reader sent in the attached screenshot, showing his fruitless attempt to post our guide to enhancing the privacy of your Facebook account. Apparently Facebook found that content to be "abusive."...

  
  

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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Netizens Rally Support For Mohamed Soudani

  —Dave Lucas

  A Facebook group, a blog and a twitter page have been created to support Mohamed Soudani in the hardships he is experiencing. The 24-year old student vanished in October after giving interviews to Radio France and Radio Monte Carlo. News has leaked that [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  

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• The Valleywag Guide to Restoring Your Privacy on Facebook [Not Afraid To Be Servicey]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 132
  Facebook's privacy rollback is especially terrible because it's so hard to reverse. Settings are so bewildering that even CEO Mark Zuckeberg has fiddled his two-to-three times this month. So here's a...

  
  

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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:23pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Facebook's Great Betrayal [Rant]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 100
  Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company...

  
  

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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party [Exclusive]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 127
  The Facebook privacy snafu really is the gift that keeps on giving (if you're a gossip blog). Here are the elect to Yale's Skull & Bones secretest society partying on their private island (we think)...

  
  

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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:47pm EST
  by Hunter Walker

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• Hollywood Elite Loves the Conniving Facebook Flick Script [The Cinema]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 6
  There's a lot of lying going on in Aaron Sorkin's Facebook movie, and industry insiders love it: The script for The Social Network made this year's Black List, top screenplays as chosen by execs paid...

  
  

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:45pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Facebookarazzi: Stalking Celebrities Just Got a Whole Lot Easier [Facebook]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 70
  The implications of Facebook's recent privacy rollback will likely take months to reveal themselves. But it's already clear they go beyond Mark Zuckerberg's stash of intimate pics; we're already...

  
  

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:54pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Mark Zuckerberg Hates His New Facebook Privacy Policy, Too [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 24
  Facebook's CEO has urged his users to carefully review the new "privacy" settings pushed on them by his social network. He should have taken his own advice: He's apparently locked down his photos...

  
  

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Twittering Our Days Away

  —The Community Alliance

  On The Community Front, More Action, Less Chat
  
  The Twitter phenomenon is all the rage! Why, according to published reports, it has already surpassed Facebook as a favored mode of communication.
  
  Wow! Whatever happened to talking? A good old face-to-face discourse. Lost art, we fear. Replaced by texts, [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:07pm EST
  

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• The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock : Facebook Edition [30 Rocks]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 39
  When not waging the war on Christmas, 30 Rock took some time to throw a few light punches at its network, their social networking site, and Facebook in general. It's a superpoke to the eye. At the...

  
  

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:54pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

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• The Intimate Facebook CEO Pics Exposed By Facebook's Privacy Rollback [Photo Gallery]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 8
  Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we're blessed with pics of the social network's young CEO shirtless,...

  
  

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:38pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Facebook Gets Shrill With Twitter Backer Over Privacy [Twitterati]

  —Gawker

  Facebook's Brandee Barker set her fight with a Twitter-investing ex Googler to "public;" CNET staff jockeyed for a free street turkey; and Serena Williams got ready for her nail-baring closeup. The...

  
  

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:44pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Facebook, Twitter & the New TOMORROW

  —Dave Lucas

  A handful of posts back I mused that Facebook and twitter today are what AIM and Forums were about ten years ago. I've done a lot of reading lately (besides what I normally do, thanks to a couple of doctor visits and those Joe Bruno court days) and the "experts"' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:42pm EST
  

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• More sex offenders to be removed from social-networking sites

  —Albany Watch

     Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced this afternoon that 13 more social-networking sites, including ones owned by Google, Yahoo! and AOL,  have agreed to remove New York registered sex offenders from their sites. Cuomo said last week that Facebook and MySpace—the two largest social-networking sites— had removed more than 3,500 sex offenders using data provided [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  by Cara Matthews

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• More sex offenders to be removed from social-networking sites

  —Politics on the Hudson

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     Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced this afternoon that 13 more social-networking sites, including ones owned by Google, Yahoo! and AOL,  have agreed to remove New York registered sex offenders from their sites. Cuomo said last week that Facebook and MySpace—the two largest social-networking sites— had removed more than 3,500 sex offenders using data provided [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:42pm EST
  by Cara Matthews

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• Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends [Disasters]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 67
  Facebook's new "privacy" settings are even more nefarious than they first appeared: The social network has formally nationalized your friends list, like some Cuban sugar plantation, and published it...

  
  

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 31
  It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook's big push to give you "more control of your information" is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information....

  
  

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place

  —Power Plays

  The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page,...

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:43pm EST
  by Roy Edroso

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• The Infuriating Optimist (And His Blown Deadline) [Peter Thiel]

  —Gawker

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  newVideoPlayer("/thiel_bigthink_valleywag.flv", 500, 375,""); For a capital manager who's lost $6 billion in assets, Pete Thiel has an awfully rosy worldview: The Facebook investor is calling baby...

  
  

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:07pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Healthcare Opponents Using Scammy Social Gaming to Get People to Spam Congress [Scams]

  —Gawker

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  Health insurance industry trade groups opposed to President Obama's health care reform bill are paying Facebook users fake money — called "virtual currency" — to send letters to Congress...

  
  

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:17am EST
  by Nicholas Carlson

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• Charity Begins At Home

  —The Community Alliance

  A "Vote" To Raise Money For Long Island's Environment
  
  Yes, today is Special Taxing District (Fire, Water) Election Day (check with you local fire and water district for particulars as to time and place), so get out there and vote!
  
  Today also presents the opportunity to vote, via Facebook, in [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:54am EST
  

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• Facebook Courts Have 100 Judges, Secret List [Social Networks]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 14
  Facebook's 100+ "policy enforcers" look for pictures of exposed nipples, nude women, and putdowns of individuals or an unreleased list of "protected groups," neither of which you're allowed to hate....

  
  

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

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