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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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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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Rapper T.I. Appears On Larry King: Has Jail Changed T.I?

Posted by Rashanah Baldwin | Posted in Commentary, News, Profiles | Posted on 16-05-2010

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This past week Rapper T.I. did his first Interview on CNN’s Larry King Live since being released from jail in December 2009. Many of T.I’s fans tuned into see if jail changed T.I. and what he has in store for the future.

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In 2009, T.I was sentenced to serve a year and a day in jail, this comes after officials discovered that he had given his body guard $12,000 to purchase illegal firearms. CNN reported that the rapper was not allowed to have firearms because of a 1998 felony convictions of drug possession.

This won’t be the first time we see rap artists go to jail and serve time, but do many learn lessons from the crime committed and the time served? In the last decade we have seen very popular rappers go to jail, Lil’Kim, Gucci Mane, Foxy Brown and Lil Wayne who was recently incarcerated for weapon possession.

Bombox which is an aggrerator site with rss feeds on hip-hop news and r&b news, also included T.I. on the list of 10 Rappers Jailed. The Larry King interview with the rapper gave many fans a surreal look into his life and some very emotional periods he faced.

Many fans tweeted about the rapper’s future as well commended him on how poised and intelligent he appeared as he interviewed with Larry King.

Children Vote On Black And White Cartoons

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in News | Posted on 14-05-2010

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Twitpic by @sixampfuze “Lol racism is funny @Da_Dios @Kapado”

A CNN-commissioned study led by distinguished child psychologist and University of Chicago professor Margaret Beale Spencer that tested 133 children from age groups of 4-to-5 and 9-to-10 revealed surprising results on American children’s racial beliefs.

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    TheDRock Obama wouldn’t b Pres. if he looked like Jamie Foxx RT @CNN: RT @andersoncooper: Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin.

The new study replicated the 1940s’ milestone Doll Test conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark that was used to evaluate the impact of segregation on African-American children.

Will Tiger Will Remain the Prey Forever

Posted by Rashanah Baldwin | Posted in News | Posted on 12-04-2010

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Could Tiger Woods expect any peace or be left alone to return to a life of golf and normalcy. One thing is for sure, if you do not know who is Tiger Woods, it could be you have been sleeping under a rock in the last ten years.

LAT, NYT, CNN, AP All Live Tweet Sotomayor Hearings, But Who Was Best?

Posted by Craig Kanalley | Posted in News | Posted on 18-07-2009

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The other day, I took a look at how the Associated Press used Twitter to cover the Sonia Sotomayor hearings.

It was a landmark experiment for that organization, and it seems the most extensive such project, fueled by a team of eight. But live tweets during the hearings weren’t limited to the AP.