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Scientists set up their own version of Facebook. Economist piece suggests this will give scientists other ways of building rep than just endless publishing of papers. Good example of science recognising that knowledge-sharing has broken out of the journal. - Mark

Great visualisation of Dan Zarella's data on what gets you noticed on Twitter. - Mark

A disruptive force in traditional clothing, Forbes claims to be a leader in entrepreneurial journalism. This looks like the kind of model Chris Anderson of Wired has been pushing towards for some time now. - Mark

One for the nothing new under the sun brigade. The moves by Huffington and Buzzfeed into original content creation are exactly what are predicted by the disruption of 'The Innovators Dilemma'. - Mark

Good roundup from Facebook itself of what gets you noticed on Facebook - Mark

A variation on the notion that a picture paints a thousand words. Possibly one of the reasons that journalists struggle with social media is their obsession with words and lack of visual awareness. - Mark

Quite a good summary of Michael Wu's book 'The Science of Social'. See in particular strategy #2: Make Work More Like a Video Game. - Mark

There are nine curators for every creator on Tumblr, according to Felix's conversations with the firm's founder. Insightful piece looking at the dynamics behind new forms of creation, curation and publishing and why it has the likes of Rupert Murdoch so worried. - Mark

Facebook analysis of content sharing trends supports the notion that social networking increases the diversity of information sources rather than acts as an 'echo chamber'. - Mark

This is from the Online editor of Nature and explains the culture gap between scientists and journalists. - Mark

Health, politics, financial markets and even moods can be predicted by Twitter messages, according to this interesting round-up of research. - Mark

Excellent commentary and survey of research on the use of social approaches within business. - Mark

Comprehensive survey of global trends in social networking presented in an infographic style. One jump out stat is that Latin American audiences are massively heavier users of social media than are Asian Pacific ones. Also women more social than men. And MySpace not dead. - Mark

Thinks journalists' gate-keeping role is over, says NYT is working on humanitarian version of Farmville, and defends his blend of journalism, opinionating and activism. - Mark

So that's what we should call it then -- 'social distribution'. Fascinating stats that rather starkly illustrate the power of web-native operations like the Huffington Post and Mashable. - Mark

Fascinating story of how AOL let most of its Engadget team slip through its hands to join a start-up sports site. Includes references to new content forms and revealing about the importance of the relationship between the business and editorial teams. - Mark

Some stunning visualisations here but how well do they work as infographics? Is the idea not that they should be self-explanatory at a first view? - Mark

Good reviews from all the family with one suggestion to reign back on the orange. - Mark

Very good reviews from the family for this one but with one suggestion that you should reign back on the orange. - Mark

The social graph is now mapped, the hottest startups are now around identifying the topicgraph, according to Business Insider. - Mark

The crucial thing about social media is that it puts organisations (like Coca Cola and Pepsi) in the same position as politicians and other live performers by giving them the ability to assess feedback in near real time. The engagement revolution will be measured. - Mark

Shirky updates his views on how the unbundling of newspaper content on the Web is undermining the ad-supported model of a general news operation and will force news outlets to focus on committed readers. - Mark

How Stieg Larsson's trilogy has done wonders for the image of journalism. One minor quibble -- Eric Alterman applauds the way in which the novels make clear that journalism is poorly paid with Michael Blomqvist personifying this yet he lives in an apartment in the posh part of town due to some professional windfall (the details of which I can't remember). - Mark

This is Scientific American's top blog post of 2011. Practical advice on bow to boost your brain power based on the latest scientific research. - Mark