twittervision: twitter meets Google Maps

I openly admit that I don't get the whole point of twitter.  I'm not that interesting, and the stuff I do isn't either.  However, some people love it.

Well, twittervision makes tweets that much more interesting as it shows the geographic location of a tweet on a Google map of the world. ...

The Best of Facebook Applications

This morning Todd gave me the somewhat amusing task of tracking down some cool applications on Facebook.  In browsing through the network's new features, I realized that there are applications for just about any activity imaginable, from tracking restaurants, movies, and music, to adding pictures of cute bunnies to one's profile. ...

Ron Paul and Distributed Online Campaigning

In all the talk about the Ron Paul online machine, there has been very little discussion of his actual campaign website, which has recently undergone a facelift. His approach is novel. Instead of building an infrastructure on his own campaign website. like most candidates have done, Paul has created a portal to his presences on various third party websites....

BBC Journalist to Report via Social Networks

Is BBC News going platform agnostic?

The British journalism trade publication Press Gazette reports that BBC reporter Ben Hammersley will report through several social networks from four cities in Turkey in the two weeks prior to the country's general elections in July.  He'll also appear on BBC World, the World Service,...

Using Blogs to Fight Fat

We've talked about lots of different ways blogs can be used here on TBR, but the blog written by the Japanese ministers of health provides us with some new material.  In response to increasing obesity rates in Japan, Vice-ministers Noritoshi Ishida and Keizo Takemi pledged in December to lose at least 5 kg (11 lbs). ...