With the sad and frightening disappearance of Brooke Bennett, a twelve year old Vermont girl, online communities are once again forced to face public criticism. Public scrutiny is always needed. Criticism however is usually misplaced though.
The public, especially uninformed parents likes to blame the online services every time something happens to a child. While there [...]

Yahoo today is reporting that Twitter users got the news of the China earthquake out before the big media giants did. Well goody for them.  This is any surprise to those of us using Twitter.
This isn’t the first time I have heard of news breaking on Twitter. Just yesterday I heard there would [...]