The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/25: This is What Smartphone Overuse Looks Like; another tool to control your lack of online self control; delete yourself from the internet; 96 year old’s love letter gone viral
Film director Spike Lee says he has resolved the situation caused by his retweet of a Florida family’s address thought to belong to George Zimmerman, the man since acquitted in the self-defense shooting of teen Trayvon Martin. In a Reddit
The day’s top picks in social media and technology from 8/7: The Many Faces of Reddit, social media blamed for another cyberbullying suicide, school tries social media contract, social media helps find stolen puppy, impact of Manning leaks, The Jester
The state of California has a solution to the problem of bitter exes: the legislature is now considering a bill to outlaw so-called “revenge porn.” Revenge porn is often posted to public websites like Reddit by angry exes in possession
Actor Samuel L. Jackson went to Reddit.com Wednesday asking users to write a monologue for him to perform as part of a campaign to fundraise for Alzheimer’s research. In this video, the Oscar-nominated thespian, famous for delivering profane and intimidating
KEMMERER, Wyo., May 29 (UPI) — Wyoming-based retailer JC Penney quickly sold out of a tea kettle on its website after online commentators noted its resemblance to Adolf Hitler. The kettle, which a Reddit user first said resembled the Nazi
Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates on the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing attacks and the condition of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspected terrorist who was captured alive on Friday. UPDATE (9:08 PM EDT): NBC’s Pete Williams
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/17 include crowdsourcing the Boston bombings investigation with Reddit and 4Chan, social media’s role in news (when news outlets get the news wrong), another celebrity SWATting, Anonymous hacktivists take on
Today’s top stories in social media and technology include a dongle joke that prompted 2 firings and an ill-informed DDoS attack, Yoko Ono tweets anti-gun propaganda, law blogger Popehat’s Reddit debut, a comment on the BlazingCatFur blog brings a police
============================================Social Media Trends and Faux Pas.============================================ Interesting read, as the AMA sessions have in fact become influential over time. How Reddit’s Ask Me Anything became part of the mainstream media circuit A happy Facebook story. ‘This is truly a
================================================== Social media trends, curiosities and faux pas. ================================================== More people doing dumb things on Facebook. Former Penn admissions officer derided applicants on Facebook An opt-in bully-watching service. Creepy, creative or unnecessary? Company monitors Facebook for schools to
On Thursday, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” to rebuke new media outlets for, in his view, tarnishing American journalism. Rather said good reporting was in decline, and with the “new Internet,” “traditional journalism”
This article from the New York Times (the liberal death star) is full of awesomeness. I am putting aside the less than pure motives for running this story, and focusing on the delicious nuggets of insight. Here are some choice
There’s been a rash of activity recently by the “hackivist” group Anonymous against US government websites as part of what’s been called #OpLastResort. The attacks started when group attacked Department of Justice computers on January 25th. The attack was significant
Dan Rather is back to defending the story that he claims got him fired from network television, asserting that the documents he presented in 2004 as proof that George W. Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard have
No wait, there’s even more to the gag than that. Sorry, this didn’t seem to display. Here’s the link.
The hacker collective Anonymous is in the news again today for leaking the credentials of 4,000 US bank executives. Hackers claim that the leak, part of an ongoing operation they’ve dubbed “Operation Last Resort,” is in retaliation for “overzealous prosecution”
In a poll conducted over nearly a month, USA Today found a majority of NFL players do not approve of Commissioner Roger Goodell’s performance. USA Today polled 300 “active” players, some of whom the organization conceded were on practice squads,
(AP) WASHINGTONThe hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The FBI is investigating. The website of the commission, an independent agency of
Harvey Weinstein, a vocal supporter of President Barack Obama and Oscar-winning film producer, claimed Sunday night that Obama backed off from anti-piracy action in 2012 because it was an election year. Speaking at the PGA Producers’ Breakfast in Park City, Weinstein
A gaggle of far-left actors have signed on for a new film embracing the 9/11 Truther movement. “September Morn,” to be directed by former stuntman B.J. Davis, will star Woody Harrelson, Martin Sheen, Daniel Sunjata (“Rescue Me”), Judd Nelson and
A supposed hacker has posted mysterious and bizarre messages on the file sharing website Pastebin, claiming to have obtained access to presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax records by way of a security breach. The latest Pastebin page, addressed to PricewaterhouseCoopers
President Barack Obama made an appeal to the marijuana-smoking “stoner” vote with an online ad featuring the stars of the “Harold and Kumar” movie series. The ad depicts Obama calling actor Kal Penn, sitting next to John Cho, his co-star from the
Hours after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced President Barack Obama would call an audible in his schedule and visit Louisiana on Monday to
President Barack Obama called for restrictions to be put on political speech during a Wednesday “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” session on the website Reddit, an Internet link-sharing community. Obama proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision
Nothing is sacred in an Internet open forum — not even the President of the United States. President Barack Obama dropped in on Reddit, an Internet community famous for its creation and dissemination of memes, in a surprise Wednesday appearance.
XBOX NOW USED MORE FOR ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT THAN ONLINE GAMING 20 million people subscribe to the Xbox streaming entertainment services and over the course of a single year, use of that entertainment usage is up a whopping 30%. Subscribers spend
This abuse of power in the most corrupt city in America and yet another display of the ‘War on Cameras‘ should really come as a shock to no one. Here, a Chicago cop tells reporters from NBC Chicago their First Amendment right can be terminated if
The Google logo has been blacked out today. Wikipedia, reddit, Mozilla and Twitpic are all blocking access to content. Even Star Trek icon George Takei has blocked his site. The moves are displays of cyber-protest against the heavy-handed and ill-conceived
If you were mad about Obamacare, if you were made about the Patriot Act, the DHS watch lists, the administration’s reach into your diets, then you’re already concerned about SOPA. SOPA = Stop Online Piracy Act sounds benign, as almost
Whatever happened to the protest song? Music stations and the Billboard charts of decades past were chock full of politically-themed songs, most notably during the Vietnam War and its many statewide protests. Recently, liberal filmmaker Adam McKay (“Anchorman,” “The Other
It has been a bad PR week for the TSA, which is having its proverbial privates examined by the Internet. The TSA’s new genital examinations and X-ray scanners, known by the charming colloquial “dick measurers” by TSA personnel, have prompted