Miscellaneous E-Things
An
executive guide to social media
How smart companies are using Twitter and Facebook - and what's next
on the horizon. -
Business Week website
Blogging
'Uh-oh
they're here' - 10 August
A 34-year-old woman has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three
weeks and could remain there for at least another month. Her crime?
Blogging about the police. Although the Charlottesville police chief
had previously written to Elisha Strom warning her that her blog
posts were interfering with the work of a local drug enforcement
task force, she was not charged with obstruction of justice or any
similar offense. Rather, she was indicted on a single count of
identifying a police officer with intent to harass, a felony under
state law. In a nearly year-long barrage of blog posts, she
published snapshots she took in public of many or most of the task
force's officers ; detailed their comings and goings by following
them in her car ; mused about their habits and looks ; hinted that
she may have had a personal relationship with one of them ; and, in
one instance, reported that she had tipped off a local newspaper
about their movements. But what seems to have sent them over the
edge is Ms Strom's decision to post the name and address of one of
the officers with a street-view photo of his house. - Washington
Post website
A
dangerous blogger - 12 August
Two thoughts come to mind. As much as I'm disgusted by Strom's
politics, so what? That's the beauty of America, room for disgusting
political thought, where it will be roundly rejected in the
marketplace of ideas. No sale. hat's how you get rid of
disgusting ideas. But not jail. Not prosecution. - Simple
Justice : a New York criminal defense blog
The
library books nobody wants to borrow - 12 August
A blog set up by two public spirited librarians from Detroit
cataloguing the worst books on library shelves has become an
unexpected internet hit. From the 1983 hit Hanging Out - The
Upside Down Exercise Book, to Vans : The Personality Vehicles,
Holly Hibner and Mary Kelly hope that drawing attention to the books
will encourage fellow librarians to clear their collections of
obsolete, and just plain dreadful, titles. - Guardian
website
See
: http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/
Mxit
MXit
aids in drug arrest - 1 August
Popular social network service MXit has almost always been
viewed in a negative light, but police are now grateful for the
communication system because it has assisted in them in catching
a Chatsworth dealer who was selling drugs to school pupils. - IOL
website
Twitter
Twitter
sued over emergency tweets - 11 August
Alerting the public about a fire, hurricane or traffic accident
on Twitter is an unlawful tweet. So claims TechRadium, a company
in Sugar Land, Texas, that is suing Twitter for alleged patent
infringement for allowing municipalities, companies, and
government agencies to use its site as an emergency notification
system. TechRadium, an emergency alert provider, argues that it
has patents covering the process for simultaneously notifying
large numbers of people about emergencies through multiple
communication gateways, such as cell phones, pagers and e-mail.
The company develops and sells the technology to schools,
businesses, governments and the U.S. military but not Twitter. -
law.com website
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