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Sun (UK)
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Apr 17, 09 7:40 AM CDT
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One lucky bidder can own Pamela Anderson’s red Baywatch swimsuit when it goes up for auction this month in Los Angeles, the Sun reports. Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider pistols more your style? Those are available, too. Elsewhere: Also from the Sun , Paris Hilton is as much of a diva as you’d expect. At a recent charity party, the heiress demanded the restrooms be cleared each time she needed to visit them.
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CNN
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Apr 17, 09 3:30 AM CDT
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Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to 1 million Twitter followers today, winning the popularity contest he started 3 days ago, CNN reports. He is the first Twitter user to break the 1 million mark, and has promised to donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day—as well as “ding-dong ditching” CNN founder Ted Turner—to celebrate his victory.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Apr 16, 09 4:40 PM CDT
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If Twitter isn’t already a certified American phenomenon, it becomes so tomorrow—Oprah will issue her first tweet. Winfrey just signed up for an account and already has 35,000 followers (and counting, quickly) despite her tweetlessness, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. She will tweet during her show, joined by Twitterer extraordinaire Ashton Kutcher and, possibly, Twitter executive Evan Williams.
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Guardian (UK)
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Apr 15, 09 5:51 AM CDT
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The journalist who used Twitter to organize last week's mass protests in Moldova has gone into hiding for fear of arrest. Journalist Natalia Morar, 25, told the Guardian she is avoiding telephones and the Internet in case the same tools she used to rally supporters are used against her by the ruling Communist Party, whose election victory ignited widespread dissent.
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ABC News
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Apr 14, 09 8:52 PM CDT
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Scary thought of the day: Ashton Kutcher has about 860,000 followers on Twitter. Kutcher himself says he's a little startled by the number—"that's a little crazy"—which makes him No. 3 in terms of followers. Nevertheless, he's issuing a challenge to No. 1 CNN (about 923,000) and says he'll be the first to 1 million, ABC News reports. If he wins, he promises a doorbell prank on CNN founder Ted Turner. The sleeper at No. 2? Britney Spears.
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Portfolio
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Apr 14, 09 3:00 PM CDT
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Futurist Douglas Rushkoff is trying to talk Craig Newmark into creating “craigbucks,” a specialized currency for trading goods on Craigslist. Rushkoff, who notably predicted the rise of social media, thinks do-it-yourself “complimentary currency” is the future of money, Portfolio reports. Complimentary currencies typically spring up and thrive in nations with unstable or untrustworthy governments, but Rushkoff thinks they’ll soon catch on here, too.
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Burlington Free Press
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Apr 14, 09 10:45 AM CDT
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Vermont’s state government is in an awkward position. Current law has the state prosecuting teens who send sexually explicit pictures of themselves to each other—sexting—as sex offenders. The state Senate has passed a bill to exempt an exchange of images between people between 13 and 18 years old from classification as child pornography, reports the Burlington Free Press , and the state House will take up the bill this week.
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LiveScience
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Apr 14, 09 7:00 AM CDT
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College students who use Facebook are less likely to be crowing about their grades in status updates, according to a new study that found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that non-Facebooking students get significantly higher grades. The Facebook users all said in a survey that the site didn’t interfere with their study habits, but on average they spent only one to five hours a week studying—compared with 11-15 for non-users.
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South Florida Business Journal
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Apr 13, 09 12:49 PM CDT
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A series of viruses have been wreaking havoc on Twitter, the South Florida Business Journal reports, sending out unwanted messages promoting StalkDaily.com. Click on one, and your account will be infected as well, and begin sending out the malicious tweets. According to Twitter’s official blog, the “Mikeyy” worm began on four accounts, and has sent out at least 10,000 tweets.
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CNET
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Apr 10, 09 3:27 PM CDT
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A New York church is using Twitter to bring observance of Good Friday into the social-networking age, CNET reports. Trinity Wall Street is posting the Passion, 140-character piece by 140-character piece, from a set of accounts representing the characters in the story. The church already encourages the use of video e-postcards and offers sermon podcasts, so Twitter was a natural next step.
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Wall Street Journal
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Apr 10, 09 10:36 AM CDT
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Asher Roth’s image isn’t classic hip-hop: He’s a white kid who wears sweatshirts and calls himself a “dork.” But that image, along with the breakout hit “I Love College,” has earned him a top-10 spot on iTunes and millions of MySpace streams, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ode to college life—zeroing in on partying, beer pong, and sex—hits a niche “bullseye,” says a music marketer.
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New York Daily News
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Apr 10, 09 10:28 AM CDT
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Celebrity oversharing on Twitter has gone from the drama-ridden (Lindsay Lohan) to the inane (Solange Knowles, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, and Nicole Richie making playdates for their kids). The New York Daily News zeroes in on the most popular celeb Twitterers, starting with Britney Spears, who has Ashton Kutcher on her heels. To read some recent Tweets, see the photo captions at left.
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San Jose Mercury News
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Apr 9, 09 6:27 AM CDT
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Facebook has welcomed its 200 millionth user, reports the San Jose Mercury News . In a blog post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the milestone—which Facebook says would make it the fifth biggest country in the world, um, if it was a country—"a good start." The Facebook founder announced a partnership with 16 charities and the launch of a "Facebook for Good" page to mark the occasion.
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Independent (UK)
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Apr 9, 09 4:15 AM CDT
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The escalating crisis in Moldova is threatening to sour Russia's relations with the West once again, reports the Independent . Russia is siding with the Moldovan government in its accusations that the anti-Communist protests—organized by pro-EU youth mobilizing with the help of Twitter updates—are part of a coup attempt backed by EU member and Moldova neighbor Romania.
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Forbes
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Apr 8, 09 1:44 PM CDT
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If you’re unemployed, the right attention on Twitter could land you your next position. Forbes offers pointers on using the micro-blogging site for networking: Make sure your account name contains something about your profession, so your feed shows up when people search associated topics. Search for industry leaders and other people and companies in your field you’d like to know—some firms even post job openings on their feeds. Sign up to follow their tweets.
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Mediabistro
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Apr 8, 09 10:49 AM CDT
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Anyone questioning the utility of Facebook should talk to Carla Pillo Mote. The Philadelphia advertising exec used the social networking site to identify and locate the man who drunkenly absconded with her company computer, wallet, and tax forms well before the police could make a move, reports Mediabistro's Agency Spy blog. Of course, she and the sticky-fingered miscreant are now Facebook friends.
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Wall Street Journal
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Apr 8, 09 10:05 AM CDT
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One in five teenagers have shared naughty pictures of themselves over the phone or online—at least according to reports of the “sexting epidemic” that’s been causing hysteria lately. But the figure might be bogus, the Wall Street Journal reports, because it’s based on a voluntary online survey. “These kinds of samples select Internet cowboys and cowgirls,” said a researcher.
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New York Times
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Apr 8, 09 2:55 AM CDT
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Thousands of young Moldovans have been using Twitter and other social networking sites to mobilize against the Communist Party's election victory, the New York Times reports. A crowd of some10,000 young activists, accusing the government of vote-rigging in Sunday's race, clashed with riot police outside the country's parliament yesterday, lighting fires and ransacking government buildings.
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Mashable
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Apr 7, 09 5:14 PM CDT
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How much is your digital self worth to you? At least one new website is betting it’s enough that you might want to pass on that value after you die, Mashable reports. Legacy Locker, which launches today, allows you to designate caretakers to take control of your YouTube videos, Flickr photos, email and other stuff stored on social-networking and other sites once you're gone. Think of it as virtual estate planning.
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New York
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Apr 6, 09 4:40 PM CDT
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The recent scrap over Facebook’s privacy policy seems to be at odds with the site’s friendly, familial face, Vanessa Grigoriadis writes in New York . But the company’s aborted move to claim ownership of user content in perpetuity reveals a vague something about its ambitions. “Facebook’s entire business plan, insofar as it is understood by anyone,” Grigoriadis writes, “rests upon this continued practice of friends sharing with friends.”
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