A good overview of small biz social media management and monitoring tools by Jess Ostroff - as of 5/2012.

Thomas Hawk offers his thoughts on the current state of photo display on social networks

In light of the Facebok acquisition, Justin Houk looks at why he uses Instagram. One word: emotion.

No company is perfect. Each has their crap that folks have to deal with. As Marco Arment notes, you can simply decide whose you're willing to tolerate.

A lengthy look at how the social graph model is flawed.

Some thoughts on how to make the most of a Facebook page based on a WordPress blog

Dare Obasanjo looks at how Google+ is poised to affect Twitter and Facebook usage

The Columbian switches to Facebook-only comments. The article itself isn't too groundbreaking but it's interesting to read the first reactions in the comments.

My hometown newspaper is switching to Facebook-only comments for its online articles. I personally think Facebook is a steaming pile of crap that often mistreats users, but apparently the masses are okay with that.

A need to change the way Adium connects to Facebook. This fixed it when my Adium install was crashing on startup due to FB connection problems.

Thoughts on real names vs. arbitrary URLs and handles

Ignite Portland presentation discussing the content licensing terms of major online services.

Javascript bookmarklet to ignore the facebook goofiness