Tech news links 13/01/08

Social media

Wikia Search gets drumming - from Business Week's Brian Burnsed

TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher's take on using Twitter for conversation

Business execs snub Facebook according to Silicon.com CIO jury with just one out of 12 using it for business, the rest preferring sites liked LinkedIn

Guardian's Kevin Anderson experiments with video discussion site, Seesmix, encouraging feedback on the US elections

From TechCrunch, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman invests in discussion aggregator and management service, Grouply, with others

Research

Web 2.0 threats from Quocirca's Fran Howarth

KPMG and Economist Intelligence Unit research finds data concerns hold back Web 2.0 adoption on econsultancy

Social journalism

Guardian's Charles Arthur - "Distribution is king, not content"

Press Gazette highlights problem of young/new journalists been worked to the bone in quest for content

Top Digg stories from 2007 from Press Gazette

Chinese blogger trying to record protest gets beaten to death by authorities from TechCrunch - demonstrating citizen journalism's importance in some countries over others