I appreciate a combination of wit and geeked-out science. Especially in a blog post.
PR 2.0 posted an article under the heading “The Twitter Star: Nova or Supernova?” earlier today. The first lines of the the post define exactly what a nova and a supernova are:
Nova: a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness and then [...]

Cross-posted at GWU’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet.
Last week, I trekked northwest to Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for an event on The Internet, Free Expression, and Authoritarianism.
Evgeny Morozov, Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University, discussed the ways in which authoritarian governments benefit from the Internet (check out Morozov’s TED speech to watch him outline some of [...]

Last week, our Association for Social Media in Higher Education hosted its inaugural event, Trust and Authenticity in Social Media: The Case of the U.S. Military (check out the video). Instead of writing a “normal” recap of the event, I decided to do something different. I spent the entire event live-tweeting under my Twitter handle [...]

Scott Talan (@talan), who moderated yesterday’s event on Trust and Authenticity in Social Media: The Case of the U.S. Military, just sent us a few follow-up articles on some of the topics we discussed yesterday — and some of the topics our association will look at in the not-so-distant future.

Reuters posts a short item on [...]

We received a question for our panel via email from Roger Pociask (Twitter: @roger_pociask), managing director of the African Affairs Advisory Group, who is unable to make today’s event. Lindy Kyzer was kind enough to respond.
Here’s Robert’s intro and question:
My organization has offices in the United States and Africa. I have tweeted about U.S. Africa [...]

Join the Association for Social Media and Higher Education for our inaugural event. As a group, we’re fascinated by the ways in which the U.S. Military adapts new technologies and tools to reach the public, provide better services to its members, and recruit new servicemen and women. Details below.
Trust and Authenticity in Social Media: The [...]