On this day, May 9th, 2008, the news brings to our attention the collective prowess of South Korean Internet geeks, the growth of Jihadi web-recruiting, Young Citizens of the Year, MySpace’s attempts to play nicer with the other kids in the social networking sandbox, and more.

• Having trouble with your online recruitment efforts? Maybe you can ask a Mujahideen what works for him.
• The UN suggests that microfinance efforts have yielded successes among poor borrowers in the developing world, though successes with agriculture are questionable.
• The MySpace Data Availability project! Content transferability! The future is now!
• And the Young Citizen of the Year Award goes to… Teenagers already daunted by their everyday goings on focus their efforts on community organization.
• South Korean “Internet geeks” wage cyber-war against “tainted” US beef imports.
• Water-slinging flash mobsters destroy award-winning garden.
• Different web strategies were signs of different results for Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama. Slowed enthusiasm leads to slowed Internet returns for Clinton.
• And finally, mobile technology in the time advanced social networking.

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