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Relevant Articles

Tech and social media companies are always in the news. Here are a few of the seminal articles that I have collected. More to come.

The Good Enough Revolution, Wired, August 2009
50 Best Websites of 2009 - Time August 2009
A Reading Assignment for Media Educators and Scholars - AEJMC blog August 09
While My Guitar Gently Beeps - NY Times August 2009
10 Inspirational NY Times Multimedia & Interactive Features - 10000 Words July 09
Why is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google - Wired July 09
The Great Wall of Facebook - Wired June 2009
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity – Wired June 2009
And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online - Wired June 09
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - Time June 2009
How Well Do You Know Google? Newsweek January 2009
The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House? - Wired January 2009
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady - New York Magazine - Jan. 2009
Business Week Special Report on the Future of Social Networking - very comprehensive May 2008
Why Free is the Future of Business – Wired February 2008
Wired: How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform - Sept. 2007
Newsweek: Facebook Grows Up - August 2007
Time: The Future of Facebook - July 2007 - several related articles with this story.
Rebirth of Music - Wired Special Issue September 2006
Why Wilco is the Future of Music - Wired February 2005
The Long Tail – Wired October 2004
Googlemania - Wired Special Issue January 2004
Mix, Rip, Burn - Wired Special Issue March 2003

Two research articles from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication:
"The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites"
"Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship"

News sites and blogs I read every day: