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Tumblr has transformed into a brand-safe zombie of its former self

An interview with a Verizon suit makes it clear that Tumblr is a hollow shell of what it once was. What does this say for the experimentation the web once offered?

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Teaching a teenager about social media

Apparently a student on work experience at The Telegraph enjoyed my training: One of the highlights during my week here, was getting the chance to attend a course with Adam Tinworth , a lecturer and journalist, called ‘Writing for the Web’. This course was all

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Are you ready for your corporate approved social interaction experience?

Cliff Watson: You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation

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Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools?

Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is: […] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t become a

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Teenagers: not, in fact, natural futurologists

Do we put too much faith in the idea that teenagers are a good predictor of technology trends? Yet the vast majority of your most-used things weren’t initially popular among teens. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod, the Google search engine, YouTube, Twitter,

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Le Web: danah boyd on Social Network Visibility

![danah boyd at Le Web](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/12/danah boyd at Le Web-thumb-250x374-1521.jpg) Your experience of the social web is not the same as everyone else’s. Your experience of the web is shaped by the people you

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21st Century Work Experience for Aspiring Journos

I hope you’ll excuse me another link to the Estates Gazette Focus team’s blog (I used to be part of that team, and I have a huge soft spot for them), but I’m just loving that they’ve been allowing their

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Le Web 3: Danah on Youth Culture

danah boyd gave a break-neck pace presentation of youth culture and its interaction with MySpace earlier. I couldn’t blog it at the time, because I’d lost all connection to my blog server, but all seems well again. It gives some idea of

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Why Teenagers Don't Read Magazines

John Naughton‘s speech to the Society of Editors conference last week has reprinted in The Observer as Young people don’t like us. Who can blame them? It’s a corker: Now look round the average British newsroom. How many hacks have a