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Australia’s largest companies say they’re using social media, but they’re not using the networks most Australians use. Twitter rules, ahead of Facebook.

You could have the box seat for the next terrorist attack — whether you like it or not. The Boston bombings and resulting social media storm were a window to the revolution online.

Terrorist incidents in Western countries now produce a highly ritualised response, and that applies to social media as well.

App.net went and changed the Silicon Valley orthodoxy with a paid, then “freemium”, model to threaten Twitter. But are we willing to pay for a better, more secure service?

Now there’s a war on cyberbullying. What is the government up to, and will it make a difference?

You can’t bet real money online, but you can play simulated casino games on your smartphone for “fun”. If the law changes, researchers are concerned it may have impacts on how we gamble online.

It was the politics of Canberra, not the policy, which dominated media headlines, talkback radio and social media chatter this week.

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas heats up again, Crikey intern David Donaldson traces war by social media.

As China prepares to anoint its leaders for the next decade, freelance journalist Monica Tan assesses the impact of runaway social media on the government of the Middle Kingdom.

What is to “publish” in the digital age? Search engines are now targets as we wake up to the fact the law says we’re publishing every time we go online.

You may have heard of black hat search engine optimisation, but what about black hat social media? Patrick Stafford of SmartCompany asks if it works.

Politicians in South Australia and the ACT featured this week, while Kevin Rudd still lurks in the shadows, writes Sentia Media’s John Chalmers.

In a worrying trend for mainstream media, Australians are turning away from traditional news sources in their search for information. Facebook leads the pack.

In a week when news beat entertainment programming in the ratings there was significant competition for most media mentions, writes Sentia Media’s John Chalmers.

Mainstream media powerbrokers only understand social media in traditional media terms, undermining their efforts to deal with it.

Efforts to thwart the impact of social media on the criminal justice system will fail. In the first of a two-part series, why the legal industry needs to accept that fact and adjust.

Social media will enhance or destroy the journalism model, depending on who you believe. Gideon Haigh on Twitter, Facebook and measuring news in the third chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

Peter Slipper and Campbell Newman zoomed up the charts of media mentions this week. But nobody had more attention than a certain Sydney shock jock …

Criminal trials and social media are not a good mix, but can lawmakers do anything about it? Attorney’s General will meet on Friday to discuss it.

Why Australia’s technologically illiterate politicians and emotionally fragile sportsmen, with their calls for tough new laws to police social media, need to have a good lie down.

Following criticism about its apparent lack of digital engagement, the Australian National Preventive Health Agency has responded to Croakey blogger Melissa Sweet, explaining its approach to social media.

The public service’s response to the emergence of social media is stranded in an analog era. James Button’s new book throws new light on the issue.

New polling from Essential Research has yielded no further rise in Labor’s primary vote but a surprisingly strong lift in voter sentiment towards Julia Gillard.

The trolling debate is merely the mainstream media doing what it’s always done: try to make money from enraging readers. But it’s unlikely to work.