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Julia Allison can't act. She can't sing. She's not rich. But thanks to a genius for self-promotion, she's become an Internet celebrity.
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That was fast. Yesterday, blogging service Tumblr moved to ban five accounts the site’s admins judged were “harassing” users — the so called “anonybloggers.” But after receiving “several hundred responses from users who are upset,” Tumblr founder David Karp is backstepping: The banned accounts have returned.
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Here’s how anonyblogging works: let’s say johndoe.tumblr.com is your target. You create a free account [...], then “follow” John’s blog. Obsessively “reblog” every post John makes, adding snarky, mean, or outright profane commentary. Tumblr’s “dashboard” system means that people [who] follow John will likely see the nasty comments. It’s the equivalent of watching someone shout at your pal as he walks down the street. But what makes the attack so unpleasant is that there’s no way for John to shake a malicious anonyblogger.
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It is perhaps the last frontier in advertising — getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text, on behalf of paying advertisers, to their friends and admirers. The idea, according to the entrepreneurs who are developing such services for Twitter and other Web networks, is that people trust recommendations from those they know and respect, while they increasingly ignore nearly ever other kind of ad message in print, on television and online.
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a raft of new research in humans suggests that oxytocin underlies the twin emotional pillars of civilized life, our capacity to feel empathy and trust.
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Melinda Rieboldt's kids were Googling her name for fun when they found it: A college paper she had helped write as part of a group project while pursuing an MBA. It was available on at least five websites that sell research papers to students.
Rieboldt, who graduated last year from the University of Phoenix in Pleasanton, Calif., doesn't know how the websites got the paper, on the topic of global
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No one yet knows exactly what Web 3.0 is, but there are brilliant minds at work shaping and designing our internet future today. Social networking on steroids will most definitely be part of whatever evolves. Right now that conjures images of tweets beaming directly into my brain (a truly scary thought) or Facebook status updates popping up while I watch TV, like a social media picture in picture.
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(CNN) -- In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter.
The suit claims that after a disagreement over what Love should pay Dawn Simorangkir for the clothes she designed, Love posted allegedly derogatory and false comments about the designer -- among them that s
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Trey Stross dropped three passes Saturday, including a possible TD pass. Monday, he dropped the invisible wall between athlete and fan.
On his Facebook account, the senior wide receiver from Avon Lake, Ohio, apologized to fans two days after the Hawkeyes’ 27-24 loss at Ohio State. He also alluded to some not-so-nice e-mails he received.
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BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Though the Internet is now officially 40 years old, tech companies are still breaking new ground. Among them, online giants like Facebook and Microsoft are setting legal precedent for prosecuting the Web's worst ne'er-do-wells.
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Julia Allison can't act. She can't sing. She's not rich. But thanks to a genius for self-promotion, she's become an Internet celebrity.
Melinda Rieboldt's kids were Googling her name for fun when they found it: A college paper she had helped write as part of a group project while pursuing an MBA. It was available on at least five websites that sell research papers to students. Rieboldt, who graduated last year from the University of Phoenix in Pleasanton, Calif., doesn't know how the websites got the paper, on the topic of global
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