How to track your life and WTF is Google Wave? (5 of the best)
Posted in 5 of the best and 5 of the rest on October 7th, 2009 by Glenn White
Our 5 favourite Social Media stories from the past week and 5 other random things that may or may not be interesting.
5 of the best
Don’t blame social media for bad behaviour
I think too many times blame is shifted from people to something else be it films, games and now Social Media. It is clear that these things have changed society but that does not mean they are making us bad people. While people are quick to point out bad behaviour on Social Media sometimes not enough mention is made of good behaviours, helping someone with a question on Twitter or catching up with old friends on Facebook.
A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions
Here is a nice long list of tools you can use to monitor Social Media activity. Brandwatch and Google are my personal favourites.
Calling Open Data Developers: We need your help
Last week I mentioned that the American government was moving forward with its transition online and that we needed to catch up. Only a few hours later this blog post popped up from the cabinet office. Would it be sycophantic to say maybe someone was reading my blog? Probably! Still good on them, lets hope it leads to the UK having a government 2.0.
Google have put together a list of cool things from the internet. It is great to see how the social web allows us to mashup our content to create something new. One of my favourite discoveries from this list will be appearing shortly in 5 of the rest 
.
I came across this after the story that a government document about stopping leaks onto the internet, was leaked onto the internet! You can’t make this stuff up. This is a fascinating repository of information and who knows what could turn up in it next.
5 of the rest
There has been a lot of fuss made about this Google Wave thing, but what is it? This slightly tongue in cheek video might help you understand it a little more.
I hinted at this earlier from Googles “87 Cool things”. It fascinates me. I have always wondered about my life statistics, how many chips I have eaten, how many times I have been to the doctor. This is obviously a very manual way of doing it but a nice looking tool. I intend to start using it and I think you should too Lets see what we can track over the coming months and what we find. Check out one of the creators reports for insperation.
Weird and wonderful letters from all sorts of people. Such as Lindsay Lohan getting a telling off!
The Cafe where you get what the person before you wanted.
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
A slightly creepy but very entertaining video
