Massive 7.8 Magnitude EarthQuake Papua, Indonesia

Breaking now: a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the North coast of Paua, Indonesia.  A local Tsunami warning issued. EQ 7.8 Manokwari, Irian Jaya, Indonesia - PRELIMINARY REPORT"An earthquake with...

John Travolta's Son, Jett, Dies in Bahamas of an apparent Seizure

John Travolta's Son Dies in Bahamas of an apparent Seizure.  The incident report stated that he was found by a caretaker, in the bathroom, early this morning.  The report further stated that he had hit...

The Top 10 Political Technology Stories of 2008

2008 added several political mile stones. When Howard Dean used the internet to raise record money for his Presidential bid the Internet became the new frontier for Politicians  to challenge.  This year...

NY Times tweet: Clinton to accept Secretary of State nomination

Sorry that I don't have more on this, but the NY Times is reporting via Twitter that Hillary Clinton will accept Obama's nomination for the post of Secretary of State."NYT NEWS ALERT: Clinton to Accept Secretary of...

Twitter (microblogging) basics

"You may not want to blog, but you may want to Tweet. You may want to do both."

Twitties To Honour Terrific Twitter Tweets

Given the massive growth of microblogging and, specifically, Twitter, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to take stock of the site's most impressive 140 character combinations and honour the art of...

Citizen Journalist Tweets About His Own Detention

UPDATE:I spoke with Zhou via gtalk, and he has agreed to post a personal account on NowPublic in Chinese (which will be translated). This is his member page: http://members.nowpublic.com/zolaHis other page is:...

Earthquake in Los Angeles

Details coming from the twittersphere:"faroco: Earthquake in Southern California! Glad it happened after Comic-Con, can't imagine how all those foreigners would have handled it. ;P 2 minutes ago · Reply · View Tweet ...

Birds having to tweet over all the traffic

Traffic is so noisy from planes, machinery, and cars that birds are having to tweet louder and alter their songs so that they can attract mates.Having to change their 'voices' in this way could have long-term and...

Twitter to buy Summize?

The rumors are a flyin'"Twitter may soon be adding search to its functionality, with the acquisition of Summize, according to blogger Josh Chandler. The rumor-mill is a-chirping [ed. note: tweeting?], with a...

Be Brief: Obama-McCain Debate via Twitter

Definitely a first: The Dem and GOP camps are facing off in  the arena of tweets, as campaing junkies and technophiles follow along in their Twitter aggregators. Fittingly enough, this open-ended debate will...

Twitter and the Zeitgeist

Twitter, like Facebook, is all about strength (or wisdom) in numbers. On its own, the microblogging application is simply a technological tool, but if it is adopted en masse, on a Facebook-scale, it could yet provide...

Qwitter: Addiction vs Addiction

Lifehacker has a really cool article about how a health action group called Tobacco Free Florida is leveraging the addictive nature of Twitter to help people quit smoking. The campaign is called Qwitter, fittingly...

Tweetmeme Ranks Your Links Into Twitter According To Popularity

The Twitter experience is very similar to walking on a busy street and catching partial conversations. That is why a lot of effort is ongoing to optimize scaling opportunities by categorising the various uses of Twitter. A new service called

Study finds avian rappers

"A study of 10 European cities, including London and Paris, and forests found that birds in urban areas are more likely to use staccato notes at a higher pitch, and tweet in a brasher way, than their country cousins. In the world of bird harmonics, researchers say it is akin...

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