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Thoughts on using Facebook Connect

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Lauren Rabaino

A former teacher of mine saw my recent post on 10,000 Words about The Washington Post’s news aggregation tool, Trove, and wrote me a concerned email. She’s interested in using the app, but doesn’t want to hand over all her … Continue reading →

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So, what is “news,” anyway?

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Lauren Rabaino

In writing about this month’s Carnival of Journalism topic (increasing sources of news), I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what exactly “news” is and what a “source of news” therefore is. I still don’t have a solid answer. … Continue reading →

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Blurring the lines between social networks

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Lauren Rabaino

We hear it over and over again: Nothing is truly “private” on the Web. But with the ability to set our profiles to “private,” we still tend to feel invincible and post photos/wall posts we’d never want employers to see.  … Continue reading →

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Facebook: A newspaper's best and worst friend

Posted on October 20, 2008 by ryan

Guest blog by Ryan Chartrand The problem Newspapers have made some pretty desperate moves in the last few years. They’ve cut pages, cut staff, cut paychecks, but then decided to try to add social networking to their Web sites. Sure, … Continue reading →

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Facebook's new application menu bar

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Lauren Rabaino

After Facebook was down for a few hours today (an inevitable consequence of the big switch to the New Facebook), users will find a major difference on their bottom menu: Application navigation. Production manager for the new Facebook Mark Slee … Continue reading →

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