Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Inconvenient facts: what is the real difference in violent crime between the U.S. and Great Britain?
Piers Morgan has been peddling his mantra of the U.S. being the “wild west” in terms of gun violence, and continues to make the point that the U.S. has a relatively high number of gun related deaths compared to Great Britain (GB). In literal numbers, yes, the U.S., with its Second Amendment, and roughly six…
Read MoreFacebook eats itself? Applications galore and shoe spam
Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air just posted about how Twitter may well be eating itself since some users are abusing the report spam and abuse buttons and are beginning to target conservatives with the hope of forcing the application to automatically shut down accounts. Of course, eventually Twitter turns the account back on after…
Read MoreTwitter: Malloy to Unions … who’s your daddy?
If you are not following me on Twitter you are missing what is and will be a weekend long rant on Malloy budget deal. Here is what i have up so far: So when the mood hits me … I will tweet. Follow at twitter.com/jimvicevich or @jimvicevich.
Read MoreMontreal school blames racist death threats on Twitter
So, we have a racist sneak into documentary screened by a conservative group at McGill University in Montreal. The racist is not exactly a fan of the film, and starts live-Tweeting his thoughts during the presentation. The Tweets include specific threats to the audience.
Read MoreBig Brother is not only watching, he’s collecting and archiving
We now learn that the White House , though a private contractor, and without anyone’s knowledge, is collecting and storing comments made on it’s social networking sites at Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and Sideshare. The truly amazing part though is that the President is pointing to federal law as his justification for these…
Read MoreTrying Twitter
For those of you really into Web 2.0 social networking, I’ve created an account with Twitter and started doing some micro-blogging. You’ll see the “tweets” over in the right column just under the Recent Comments section. Not exactly sure how long I will do this. I guess you can say that I’m in alpha or…
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