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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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High School Student Rejected From Harvard

Posted by Rashanah Baldwin | Posted in News | Posted on 26-04-2010

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High school student rejected from Harvard after an alleged Facebook status demeaning the school.  A  high school  student name Jacob, posted the following on his Facebook account:

“I just got my admittance letters into Yale, Duke, Northwestern, Penn, and Columbia. Now Harvard is begging my a– to go to their school. FULLY PAID SCHOLARSHIP. LOL. Hmmmm…. Ahahahaha naw kiss my a–. F— Harvard! I don’t need no harvard or no scholarship HAHA! No really though, I’m going to harvard guys. Wooooooo! =D”

Earth Day: 40 years later

Posted by Katie Rosebrock | Posted in News | Posted on 22-04-2010

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When the first Earth Day celebrations took place back in 1970, no one involved expected it to become a tradition. They were out rallying against the establishment, in attempts to change the world.  In an article commemorating Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary Yahoo! News says The first Earth Day “emphasized “ecology” and goals like cleaning up pollution and litter.”   Forty years on the celebration of the earth has taken on a whole new feel, and not everyone likes it. Earth Day 2010 is far more about companies selling products that are “good for the earth” as highlight in the article “7 Examples of what Earth Day Isn’t”