This week Twitter suffered a maelstrom of spam, porn and phishing attacks. As Pete Cashmore, founder of @mashable, wrote in his CNN column: “The anatomy of these attacks is simple: You receive a message, seemingly from a friend on a social network. The message contains a link and some strong incentive [...]
From the vapid and vacuous to the profound and tragic, the social web proved its mettle this week in the face of the disastrous Haitian earthquake.
The catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake decimated the impoverished Caribbean island, snuffing out tens of thousands of lives while toppling infrastructure. Miraculously, what seemed to stay up were pockets of mobile [...]
This week, the vampire crowd rose from the grave in full force, sanguinely mooning for the next instalment in the Twilight series, New Moon. Hordes of Moon-thirsty teenage girls (judging solely by their lexicon) gushed “OMG” repeatedly, no doubt planning to follow @hollywoodcrush’s advice to mark their calendars for live blogging of the premiere.
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