The HUHs, WHATs and SURE, WHY NOTs of this week.
Posted on Sat Apr 18 2009Luckie & Co. social media intern Whitney Mitchell returns to honor us with her weekly picks for The Social Pathology Report:
After a (literally) bang-up week of tons of projects and even some injuries, I'm in a weekend kind of mood.
Hopefully you are too because there was a lofty amount of news the past few days.
What happens when you're lucky enough to sell off your life's work to eBay? You buy it back two years later and call yourself a start-up again. What? [StumbleUpon blog]
- Wikipedia opens voting for members to choose Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike as the site's official license for all edited content. This is exciting news for...someone. Surely. [Creative Commons]
- A Canadian man stands to lose all of his disability payments because of his frequent Facebook use. [Switched]
- Mashable shares how a new Web-bassed Twitter client will make sure you never have to refresh Twitter (or it's subsequent app) again. Meet TwitZap. [Mashable]
- Myspace welcomes inactive users back via e-mail. [Mashable]
- YouTube called for talented musicians the world over to send their performances videos back in February for public voting and those chosen by YouTube members would go on to play as a member of a symphony orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The concert was last night. Wow. You guys should see this. [YouTube]
- NEWS: Friday, it was announced that the founders of file-sharing site Pirate Bay were found guilty in Swedish court for breaking copyright law. They now face a year in prison and a $3.6 million fine. [ReadWriteWeb]
- WHAT'S TWITTER?: 30% of CNN's viewing audience responded with just that in an online poll. Even more baffling, only 6% admit to using it. [Mashable]
- Here's a handy (and kind of annoyingly relatable) list of the "16 Biggest Tech No-Nos" [Switched]
- In other confusing news, quite possibly my new favorite site -- Hunch.com -- predicts traits about you with a few simple questions, as well as compiling other user's answers. For instance, the site found that people who believe that alien abductions are real are more likely to blame Nancy Pelosi for the financial crisis. I TOLD you it was confusing. [TechCrunch]
- If you missed out on the worm or "Twitter bug" a teenage hacker coded through the site this week, read what one tech blogger says is to blame for these sort of attacks: bored kids. [ZDnet]
If you have any tips or links worth mentioning, send me some social aggregation fodder via e-mail or on Twitter.
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