Thursday, September 7, 2006

News About News at Facebook (Sept. 10-12 updates added) All of the stories below are talking about the controversy over a "News" model at Facebook, the collegiate social networking site that turns up right after "word processing" when I ask students what they do with their computers... With an intro "online journalism" class looking for project topics, one of them could be a group search for local angles or untold stories of life in the Volunteer zone of Facebook... (The links below have been sorted into roughly chronological order.) Facebook blog: Ruchi Sanghvi (Sept.5): Facebook gets a facelift Forbes (Sept.5): Facebook Makeover (Sept.5) Mark Zuckerberg says "calm down"... (Who's he? "The face behind facebook.") PaidContent (Sept.6) Some Users Find New Facebook Features "Creepy" Rex Hammock (Sept.6): A youth protest movement dreamed up by parents? (Sept.7) A quote from North Dakota that sums up the problem: "I woke up a few days ago to find that, much to my horror, all my recent doings on the Facebook were being looked at by all my friends...." AP (Sept.7): New Facebook features have members in an uproar eWeek (Sept.7): Web Social Site Facebook Hit by Privacy Protests MediaPost OMD (Sept.7): Users throw book at Facebook Fred Wilson, A VC (Sept.7): Facebook's Feeds Back to Zuckerberg (Sept.8): "We really messed this one up." Dave Winer (Sept.8): Okay, Facebook did good. But Facebook also did bad. BusinessWeek (Sept.8): Facebook learns from its fumble NYTimes (Sept. 10): When Information Becomes T.M.I. USA Today (Sept. 11): Facebook will soon be available to everyone TopTechNews (Sept. 12): Facebook Expands to All Netizens NYU Washington Square News (Sept.12): Facebook info is public, duh MIT Tech (Sept.12): Facebook and the Evolution of Stalking @ MIT ... a quote: "I realize that my class is the last class of undergrads at MIT to have entered college without the Facebook. And maybe I'm old-fashioned, crusty, or both, but it's just a little appalling when freshmen arrive at MIT with over 700 friends..." More background: Search The Chronicle of Higher Education (full text via UT library databases). Search Inside HigherEd (for free) Search The Daily Beacon... for past articles Search News.Google.com Related topic -- Athletes, Facebook and MySpace: Too Personal? (Mike Strange, News Sentinel, and see his blogging editor, Jack McElroy) 2:02:38 PM    comment []

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