Google Trends is just another example of how Google is the black hole of all data and how the folks that run the show are smart enough to actually do something interesting with it.

Cramming complex ideas into 140 characters on Twitter can be challenging. So can describing what you had for lunch. Therefore, one abbreviates, uses symbols, hints at meaning.

Social media provide job seekers a way to advertise skills and experience, and 18 percent of employers found content on social networking sites that caused them to hire a candidate.

The survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers found that 45 percent use social networking sites to research job candidates, up sharply from 22 percent last year.

An only-in-Miami story occurred Wednesday as two men carried a 90-pound nurse shark around the city’s streets, boarding a monorail that circulates downtown — while the fish was still alive.

The new social media environment is rich in opportunities to connect, communicate, create a sense of community and, occasionally, to produce the odd awkward moment.