Drinking from the fire hose. That’s perhaps the best way to describe yesterday’s Free State Social in Lawrence, Kansas. Though the first year of this unique local event — a single-day conference/forum for social media enthusiasts and practitioners — I was thoroughly impressed by the caliber of speakers, the quality of the content presented and [...]

Trotting out the Fail Whale won’t even begin to describe the rampant Twitter phishing attacks that have compromised a number of high-profile accounts. Besides Bill O’Reilly’s “outing,” Britney Spears “revealed” the size of her vajayjay, CNN’s Rick Sanchez “tweeted” a crack-tastic out of office excuse and accounts belonging to Facebook, Barack Obama, the Huffington Post [...]