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Lady Gaga Creates Prayer Bracelet to Benefit Disaster Relief in Japan
By not in system - AOL NewsHours after the world learned the shocking news about Japan's 8.9 quake and 10-meter tsunami, Lady Gaga launched a movement on Twitter to raise relief funds. The singer has designed a white and red wristband for fans to purchase in her official online store, according to MTV News, and she says all sales proceeds will benefit victims of the disaster. And the $5 price tag can be voluntarily increased by any buyers wishing to boost their monetary donations. Kevin Mazur, WireImage Lady Gaga, who has a love for Japanese culture and its people, has designed a bracelet to raise money for ...
Mobs and Democracy: The Facebook-Twitter-YouTube Revolution
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyYou may think you've seen this movie before. Just two summers ago, in fact, in Iran. Never say never, but I'm saying never. You've never seen anything like what is unfolding today in Egypt. Just when it seemed humankind was doomed (pick your poison: pandemic, climate change, famine, drought, nuclear war) up pop Tunisia and Egypt. Overnight, it seems, the world has entered a new era. As The New York Times put it: It was a spectacle that would have been unthinkable less than two decades ago, when Middle Eastern governments strictly censored any subversive images. Now, it seems, all ...
Facebook Users in Survey Say Republican Pols Handiest With Social Media
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyRepublicans Sarah Palin, Scott Brown and freshman Sen. Marco Rubio get high marks from Facebook users for their social media skills in terms of staying in touch with supporters and constituents in 2010. Facebook, the wildly popular social networking site, asked its members this week to rank politicians and government agencies for their facility in using its pages. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, Sen. Brown (R-Mass.), Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) were rated highly for their regular but unobtrusive use of Facebook, the Washington Post said. More than 2.5 million have ...
'War on Drugs' Gives Way to the Dangerous New Face of Narco-Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyA shotgun blast of news this year shredded what most Americans believe about what used to be called the "war on drugs" -- that it was being fought to curb what were seen as simply criminal enterprises. Instead, it left us all facing the new dangers of narco-politics, whether it is cartels challenging governments and attacking social institutions, capitalizing on corruption, or involvement in the drug trade by terrorist groups. As a veteran California law enforcement officer told Politics Daily: "What we're seeing in Mexico is cartels as new 'state making' agencies." That's politics, even if, ...
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Is Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTime magazine, which has lionized public figures ranging from Joseph Stalin to Ronald Reagan on its cover, has named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg it's "Person of the Year." Time Editor Rick Stengel said Zuckerberg was chosen "for connecting more than half-a-billion people and mapping the social relations among them (something that has never been done before); for creating a new system of exchanging information that has become both indispensable and sometimes a little scary; and finally, for changing how we all live our lives in ways that are innovative and even optimistic." Among others ...
Cartoon Character Facebook Meme: I'm Bambi. Or Not.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyI'm Bambi. I'd like to be, anyway. But it doesn't take much to bring out the Tasmanian Devil in me. Yesterday ABC News reported on the new meme sweeping Facebook. People are replacing their profile pictures with a childhood favorite cartoon character. According to knowyourmeme.com, the cartoon character game started three weeks ago in Greece and Cyprus. The original plan was to remove all pictures of humans from Facebook, but that meme morphed into yet another "awareness" game, similar to the bra color (breast cancer) and purse (female empowerment) games months ago. This time the good cause ...
Twitter Watch: Kanye West Finally Joins, But So Do Cyber Scammers
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(July 29) -- This week, there are two new things to Twitter that users should be on the lookout for: Kanye West and many more cyber criminals. Surge Desk briefly examines each. Disclaimer: This involves more than 140 characters. 1. Cyber Criminals According to a study conducted by Barracuda Labs, the rapid growth of users on the Twitter network is leading to an increasing rate of "Twitter Crime," evaluated as the number of Twitter accounts created each month that are eventually suspended by Twitter moderators. Although this methodology does not specifically determine the user's criminal ...
How Social Networking Makes Communicating Harder
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyA few days ago, I woke up in a panic. I was headed to Los Angeles to hawk my new book, and I hadn't called my grandmother (or anyone with the last name Andrews) to say I'd be home. Our conversation went like this: Me (feigning innocence): "Ugh, Grandmommy, I've been crazed, so sorry I didn't call you all sooner. So can you come?" My grandmother, who's been protesting her cell phone since 2006: "Oh, I know all about it. Please, with my face [Myspace], your face [Facebook], tweety twat [Twitter] and what not . . . Point is, word travels fast." Indeed, 140 characters do travel fast. But what ...
Obama, Hitler and Lenin Share New Tea Party Billboard
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 13) -- Look, up in the sky: It's Hitler, it's that guy who came before Stalin, it's Obama the socialist! At least that's the scene set by a controversial new roadside billboard in rural Iowa that puts the president literally right in the middle of two of history's most infamous totalitarian leaders, Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Have a look: Deb Nicklay, Globe Gazette / AP The North Iowa Tea Party's latest billboard features, from left, Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama and Vladimir Lenin. Put up last week, the display has already drawn numerous complaints, including from other national ...
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