Weekly review: Facebook's power bill, Top 10 Twitterers

What with all the tornadoes, power outages and general chaos last Friday, we're just now posting Whitney Mitchell's weekly Social Pathology Report. Sorry if the lack of links and insight wrecked your weekend. But breathe easy. We're back:

So here's what was popping up on the social media radar last week:

• HATERS' BALL: Just as soon as the buzz began for Diggbar, the backlash began. Now, read some of the objections. [3dogmedia]
• What if Facebook had a power bill? Not the actually corporate building, but the social network's imprint on the environment via people worldwide using it. Guess the number. Just try. (SPOILER ALERT:  $1 MILLION a month!) [TreeHugger]
• And for those of you fond of FWD:ing to the max, here's a Top 10 list of the most extraordinary Twitter updates. It includes some great causes, some prenatal tweetage and even some nuptial action. [Mashable]
• IBM recently applied a monetary value to individual social (in this case, e-mail) contacts. Factors like increased productivity and patterns between productivity & frequency of communication were taken into account. The number might surprise you. [ReadWriteWeb]
• Some awesome innovation is happening on the WordPress front as a plugin called "BackType Connect" aggregates comments about your post and pulls them into your comment thread from Twitter, Digg, Friendfeed and all over the Web. Wow. [ReadWriteWeb]

If you have any tips or links worth mentioning, send me some social aggregation fodder via e-mail or on Twitter.

Whitney Sides Mitchell is a social media planner for Luckie & Co., founder of the local-music blog Bham.Fm and a music blogger for AL.com. Her Social Pathology Report appears here each Friday.

Today's photo credit: Steffe on Flickr.