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Who polices Facebook?

A young producer on Radio 4's Today programme got a shock the other day when he logged onto Facebook. In his newsfeed was an item posted by a friend linking to a photo, allegedly of the mother of Baby P, the child killed in the recent notorious case. Various obscene and threatening comments were ...

Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - get comments with social media tools

Social media: Social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, can give you access to all the experts, comments and opinions you need for editorial and articles. Type a request into Twitter or your Facebook status and see what happens. Tipster: Dan Thompson.

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Sony Ericsson treats the Xperia X1 to exclusive new panels

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is a mighty fine handset. A little completed to get the hang of, but a wonderful handset nonetheless. Sony Ericsson has just launched a range of exclusive panels for the multimedia handset, which will be music to the ears of social networking zealots who like a bit of ...

NiemanJournalismLab: New York Times sees success in Facebook push

The New York Times is celebrating the size of its Facebook group. "An internal memo from the NY Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy touted the newspaper’s 'successful' advertising campaign on Facebook," following the US election, reports the NiemanJournalismLab. The number of fans of the NYTime...

Nokia intros the 6260 slide for "high speed sharing"

Nokia has introduced its latest slider phone and is emphasising how it's "made for high speed sharing". Obviously, all mobile phones are made for sharing - funnily enough they were invented as a way to talk to people, before someone came along and thought that sending 160 character strings of tex...