Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter

Today's article is from Steven Levy over at Wired.  It has some great insight into how people on Twitter have unintentionally caused a hostile takeover of the social networking service and to some extent have prevented the inventors and owners of the site from making any major interface changes.  Twitter is working towards changing that, but for now it is still basically governed by those that use it.

You can read the article here.

 Illustration: Christoph Niemann

Music Labels Emphasize Artist-Specific Social Networks, Websites

Today's article comes to us from good old Wired.  Apparently, social networks and websites made for specific bands and musicians are getting increasingly better traffic than larger websites that have lots of artists with similarly styled pages (for example MySpace, Last.fm, etc).  This is very interesting to me as I have been doing work for a musician by helping him build MySpace and Last.fm pages and am very involved in music myself.  You can check out the article here.