David Pogue, a writer for the NY Times on their excellent Technology page, writes a piece about all this fancy-techie “social media” stuff: What it is, what some of the key players are, and so forth.

I highly recommend it for a simple overall primer on the whole thing; he’s made a very good “50 thousand foot” view of the Social Media landscape.

Here is the link to the NY Times article (registration and login may be required)

Here is a link to the same story at NDTV, a site in India that gets these stories and will leave them up without the need to login to read them