Is Facebook making people sad? - Yahoo! News

Is Facebook making people sad? - Yahoo! News: "In addition to sparking bloody family feuds over denied friend requests, Facebook is depressing the heck out of people, according to a new study.
According to Alex Jordan, the Standford University Ph.D. student who led the study by the school's psychology department, the Facebook users his group monitored often grew saddened as they plugged into the accounts of the excellent leisure pursuits and professional triumphs that their peers post on the networking site. In short, the subjects in the study reported a gnawing sense that life was a party that they weren't invited to."

Study: Sexy Female Anchors Distract Male Viewers - TVSpy

Study: Sexy Female Anchors Distract Male Viewers - TVSpy: "According to scholars from Indiana University, female anchors who are easy on the eyes make it difficult for male viewers to remember the news.

Researchers Lelia Samson and Maria Elizabeth Grabe found that, for male viewers, “emphasis on the sexual attractiveness of female news anchors distracts from memory formation for news content” because “men’s cognitive mechanisms favored visual over verbal processing.”"

5 Ways to Stand Out on Twitter - AllTwitter

5 Ways to Stand Out on Twitter - AllTwitter: "You can use Twitter to sell a product, to create your brand or to become part of a community of experts – but if you don’t stand out from the crowd, you’ll quickly get frustrated. Increasing your follower count, and keeping them engaged, is all about adding something new to a conversation and making yourself heard. Here’s five ways to stand out on Twitter that you can implement today."

5 Signs That Social Media Is The Next Bubble

5 Signs That Social Media Is The Next Bubble: "A recent investment by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs valued Facebook at $50 billion. The company was only founded in 2004, meaning the valuation went from zero to the stratosphere in just six years."

HowStuffWorks "5 Reasons to Friend Your Boss on Facebook"

HowStuffWorks "5 Reasons to Friend Your Boss on Facebook": "Mark Zuckerberg wrote in the Facebook blog in July 2010 that the site had reached 500 million users. The social networking phenomenon has become an important communications tool for both pleasure and productivity. But should you befriend your boss on Facebook?"

Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable

Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable

The Future of India’s Digital Media - India Real Time - WSJ

The Future of India’s Digital Media - India Real Time - WSJ: "WATMedia, a web-based company which focuses on helping Indian businesses market their products on social media such as Facebook, on Friday is sponsoring a day-long summit on what the digital media space can do for Indian businesses.

At the event, the WATSummit, web-based entrepreneurs and experts on digital media will be discussing where the digital media industry is heading and exploring its untapped business opportunities."

Social Networkers: A new generation - Hindustan Times

Social Networkers: A new generation - Hindustan Times: "Ladies and gentlemen, the explosion has happened. When Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, made it to the cover of Time magazine last month in the form of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, it was a defining moment. Already, the site ranks as the third most populous country in the world (if it can be called a country) behind India and China and estimates show that it will cross 1 billion members in 2012. That’s a sixth of the world’s population – and half of the 2 billion people who are connected to the Internet. Micro-blogging site Twitter currently hovers around the 190 million users mark but is taking over our lives like nothing we’ve seen before."

news.outlookindia.com | Introspect if Media Fulfilling Its Duty: N Ram

news.outlookindia.com | Introspect if Media Fulfilling Its Duty: N Ram
Ominous trends like 'paid news' and publication of Niira Rdia tapes on corporate-media nexus made it all the more important that media organisations and mediapersons made a self-critical assessment, Ram said in his inaugural address at a symposium on "Whither journalism" held as part of the International Congress on Kerala Studies organised by CPI-M's AKG Centre for Study and Research here.

The Hindu :The public has a right to know

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : The public has a right to know
Thanks to WikiLeaks and ‘Radiagate,' a significant treasure trove of classified or privately held information with the potential to affect the lives of millions of people has been brought into the public domain. To be sure, the two sets of documents — diplomatic cables in one instance, audio recordings in another — pertain to vastly different subjects. But both provide a much-needed glimpse into the real world — especially the real and often illegitimate interests that lie hidden behind the diplomatic niceties, political correctness, and corporate PR that dominate international and domestic messaging. The leaks we have seen and those that are yet to come are unlikely to alter any of fundamental balances. Nevertheless, it is also true that as a result of these disclosures, the task of those who use misinformation, manipulation, and deception in the exercise of global, political, and corporate power has become a wee bit harder. That is why legal and even strong-arm tactics — the cyber equivalent of which is hacking and denial of service attacks — have been employed to stop this information from being made public. In the case of WikiLeaks — a not-for-profit media