Posts Tagged ‘RSS Feed’

Is Google’s Wave The Best Way for REAL People to Communicate?

In History, Internet, News, Opinion, Twitter on 19 October 2009 tagged @aplusk, @Kimkardashian, EMail, Facebook, Friendster, Gmail, Google, IM, Instant Message, myspace, News Feed, Orkut, RSS, RSS Feed, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter with View Comments

It has been almost two years since I first signed up for Twitter, though I was not at nearly at the vanguard of what has become the latest Internet craze, I do distinctly remember having people approach to ask me what the “Ali is Twittering…” next to my Facebook status meant. Though I don’t see [...]

Seriously, What is Wrong With CNN’s Headlines?

In Crime, Internet, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, citizenship on 24 September 2009 tagged Ahmad Wais Afzali, Bomb plot, CNN, CNN RSS Feed, Colorado, Denver, headlines, Mohammed Wali Zazi, Najibullah Zazi, RSS Feed, Saddam Hussein, terror, terrorism, terrorist, Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD with View Comments

Yes ladies and gentlemen, CNN is phrasing what they themselves later call, a ‘bomb conspiracy‘ as ‘WMD‘ on their RSS Feed. How does “knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more of the explosives,” turn into weapons of mass destruction? What exactly is CNN’s definition of the term and if Zazi’s plot [...]

What Hath Twitter Wrought? Jessica Simpson’s DOG Makes it on CNN RSS Feed

In History, Internet, Music, News, Opinion, Twitter, fame on 15 September 2009 tagged @JessicaSimpson, Cable News Network, CNN, CNN RSS Feed, coyote, Daisy, Jessica Simpson, Jessica Simpson's dog, RSS Feed, Twitter with View Comments

What exactly is Twitter doing to mainstream American journalism when the fact that Jessica Simpson‘s dog was ‘snatched‘ by a coyote makes it to CNN’s RSS Feed? That’s not music news, as the categorization of the story would like you to believe and that’s definitely not headline news, so why is it a lead story [...]