Archive for February, 2009

Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter

Monday, February 16th, 2009

UPDATE 9/27/10: This post has very kindly been translated into Belorussian by an interested reader: Belorussian. UPDATE 5/8/09: Facebook revised its Terms of Service, aka the "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities." Here's their blog post about it, and here's the current policy. *** With today's outrage over Facebook's newly altered Terms of ...

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Twitter, institutions, historians, audiences

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Yesterday, Kathleen Hulser of the New-York Historical Society (yes, the hyphen is supposed to be there -- it's a historical hyphen), who is writing an article for Perspectives on History, the "newsmagazine of the American Historical Association," wrote me to ask, "How have social media blurred the boundaries between historian/institution ...

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