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.

Help Griffin win a video contest (to help pay for his wedding)!

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 by Griffin Hammond

(UPDATE: I won the contest! Thank you!) Your votes in this video contest could win me $2,000, which would help me pay for my wedding to the lovely Amy! (And did I mention you might win $100?) HOW TO VOTE: 1) Click here to register on the site. (It's good for you, because ...

How do college students find media online?

Saturday, January 9th, 2010 by Griffin Hammond

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of Americans use search engines, like Google, daily. According to my browser history, I visit Google 19 times a day, on average! So it's with that search obsession that in July, I completed my Masters thesis, titled "Media search ...

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.