This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Economic_Idiocy_of_Blocking_Social_Media_Traffic'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Egyptian_Blogger_Marks_One_Year_in_Prison'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman is a 22 year old law student in Egypt who blogged under the name Kareem Amer Continue reading »

NYTimes.com has today launched a new version of its technology section, which includes more aggregation of news from around the Web. Of most interest perhaps is that its Techmeme-like news Continue reading »

AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be Continue reading »

Today the NY Times announced its new personalized start page, called My Times. As with existing 'start pages', such as My Yahoo, Pageflakes and Netvibes, My Times is a way Continue reading »

What's this? IBM going media 2.0? Big Blue has released a Noir-themed report entitled 'Navigating the Media Divide: Innovating and Enabling New Business Models.' It comes with a movie inspired Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Burying_the_Digg_Clones'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Editor: This is a guest post by Rogelio Bernal Andreo, founder of CoRank - a service that lets you create Continue reading »

In our introductory post on Citizen Journalism (CJ), we reviewed Newsvine - an innovative and well-designed citizen journalism web site. In this post we'll review two examples of 'localized' CJ: Continue reading »

In the young but growing world of user-generated news, sites like digg and slashdot dominate in the tech sphere. In the political arena, it is mostly editorial-driven sites that do Continue reading »

One of my pet peeves currently is when people badly submit an article to digg. It is bad for both digg readers (who may never get to see the article Continue reading »