Walled Gardens News & Articles

This week web publishing goes blogging. From intranet corporate behaviors to online newspapers, blogs are making headlines.

A recent article in the New York Times discussed the growing popularity of new social networking sites that cater to specific religious and ethnic populations. Sites like Xianz.com and Naseeb.com have become safe havens for users who are frustrated, tired and uncomfortable with the profane and sexually explicit comments generated by users on MySpace and Facebook.

In response to such frustrations, discouraged users sometimes make the jump to cultural safe havens — some with barriers to entry. Most such social networking sites heavily monitor users’ content, often limiting the language members may use. Can such closed spaces thrive in an era of MySpace?