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Tips For Live Tweeting An Event Live tweets from an event are a great way to catch people's attention and build a following. Especially if they're done right. I've live tweeted several events, most notably Barack Obama's Inauguration...

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10 Pros And 10 Cons Of Twitter For Journalists Like anything, Twitter has its advantages and disadvantages. Whether you're new to Twitter or not, it's important you're able to identify these and adjust to use Twitter in the best ways possible. Here's...

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How To Verify A Tweet Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the...

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Short And Sweet: A New Generation Of News If it's not in 140 characters or less, you may lose them. They glance at what you say. If you're good, they may spend a few extra seconds. If not, they've moved on. Words. Links. Short, sweet, and...

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The Many Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter Because of its simplicity, Twitter has great potential for many different uses and applications. With a little creativity, the possibilities are nearly endless. A recent survey out of Norway sheds...

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Australian Male & Female Virgins For Sale On TV

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in Commentary, News | Posted on 18-05-2010

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Australian filmmaker, Justin Sisely will be starting bidding wars in Las Vegas to auction off young men and women’s virginity in a reality television show, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

The sex auction is being filmed for a documentary and the virgins will each be paid a sum of $20,000 plus 90 percent of the auction price, according to the Huffington Post.

Does humanity come this cheap these days? Twitterverse chimes in.

Australia Burka Robbery Sparks Global Debate

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in Commentary, News | Posted on 07-05-2010

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Following the going trend in several European countries, Australian Opposition Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi is the next in line to condemn the “Burka” after an armed robbery was allegedly carried out by a man wearing the Islamic veil.

As reported by BBC, Mr. Bernardi called the Burka “un-Australian”,

“To me, the burka represents the repressive domination of men over women which has no place in our society and compromises some of the most important aspects of human communication.”

One person abusing religion as a disguise to practice violence, is it fair to grant him the power to cause social change?