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Should Twitter be Scared of Facebook?
The New York Times has a piece about Twitter, including a nice pic of Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey of Obvious Corp.…
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Activists YouTube Wolfowitz Into “The Office”
Phil de Vellis created the now-famous 'Hilary 1984' video that exploded across YouTube and hordes of other sites; he's at it again, helping an activist group cast World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz in a video as the less than brilliant leader of Dunder Mifflin.
PC Mag May Boycott Edelman PR
Transparency is a word that's been kicked around a lot lately. But too much transparency is what got Edelman PR pro and blogebrity Steve Rubel kicked around this week, instead. An early Friday 13th comment about PC Magazine is fueling a potential boycott, as well as fulfilling what the PR world had feared about blogging.
Canadian Sues The Messenger
Wayne Crookes, a former campaign manager of the Green Party of Canada, is suing Google, Wikipedia and openpolitics.ca for libel. He is suing the sites for posting made by anonymous users on Google's Blogspot, for an entry under his name on Wikipedia, and on openpolitics.ca, a political forum run by Michael Pilling a Green Party activist.
YouTube Stops John McCain’s Singing
A political video featuring John McCain has been removed from YouTube, and MoveOn.org is not happy about it. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the group is trying to preserve free speech or let an opponent embarrass himself, but the matter speaks to larger issues in either case.
Yahoo Named In Chinese Torture Suit
Search engine companies get sued all the time, but it’s usually about a patent dispute, a site’s ranking, or something else relatively mundane and white-collar. Not so in this case: Yahoo is being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act.
