Media Socialist is a blog about, and a testing ground for, social media online.

That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

New Facebook design with real-time news feed

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 by Kyle Welter

Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is rolling out another Facebook redesign.... and shockingly enough, it seems to mimmick Twitter even further! Announced today through the Facebook Blog, the new changes are quite extensive and are definitely the largest we've seen since the creation of the news feed. The first update is the creation ...

Blogging the Biofuel Road Trip

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

CNN is running an interesting blog, about two guys driving across the country on biodiesel. Producer Cody McCloy and web developer/biodiesel enthusiast Brian Hardy will spend the next two weeks driving from San Francisco, CA to Atlanta, GA in a 30-year-old diesel vehicle to report on the convenience and effectiveness of biofuel in ...

Earthquake!

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Earlier today a 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles. (Read about it on CNN.) As soon as I heard, I went to Twitter Search to see what people were saying about it. A massive number of tweets have been published about the earthquake, and I'm so late to look that even though ...

Facebook landed him in jail

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

CNN reports the story of a college student, whose Facebook profile was used as evidence against him in court: Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the ...

Man twitters his layoff from yahoo.

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

An interesting CNN video about a Yahoo employee who was laid off, and twittered his account of the whole day. Click here to watch the video.