In 2009, gossip sites went wild with headlines that suggested the Twilight star was a lesbian. However, a closer look at Stewart s quotes reveals how she was actually responding to a question over the nature of her relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson: I ve thought about this a lot. There s no answer that s not going to tip you one way or the…
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By now you’ve probably seen the disturbing video footage that has gone viral of that out-of-control cop breaking up a teen pool party in Texas after receiving a phone call about a confrontation between a mother and one of the teens attending the event. This particular officer went straight nuts, throwing one young girl wearing nothing but a bikini on…
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As the data investment management arm of WPP, Kantar is one of the world s largest insight, information and consultancy groups. Kantar, whose services are employed by over half of the Fortune 500, has built a tremendous set of assets that are complementary to those that we’ve built at comScore and offers its clients insight at every point of the consumer…
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If you re just getting started on the internet-or simply looking for ways to add new revenue streams to your business-you might be considering accepting ads for other companies products on your website. Who wouldn t like to make a few extra bucks without any effort? You just put up a few ads on your site and wait for the cash to roll in, right? Not…
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Truth rating: 10 PHOTOS Is the dress pictured at right white and gold? Or is it blue and black? That debate dominated social media on Thursday night, as seemingly everyone in the world weighed in on the outfit’s colors. The image went viral early in the evening when people began arguing over whether the dress appeared white and gold or blue and black…
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Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea. Adolf Hitler wrote these words in his book Mein Kampf (1926), in which he first advocated the use of propaganda to spread the ideals of National Socialism—among them racism…
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IT LOOKS a lot as new media should, with hip click-bait headlines that are ready to be tweeted on microblogs. One headline on the website of a new online publication in Shanghai, the Paper, is about an “evil” former general, defrocked for corruption—“so wicked he looked loyal, so fake he looked real”. Another headline says that three women have withdrawn…
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With this desire, modern kids make their rich parents sick. But this is not about wealth, but about accessibility. Now every equestrian site or equestrian market can offer any horse, with or without documents, with different levels of riding, even with home delivery. If you decided that you need your own horse, realize that one “want” is not enough!…
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Digital environments are rapidly evolving to include mobile native ads – 60% of publishers now offer them, and 44% of our own display ad impressions are native. Why is this format growing so quickly? Because it engages consumers and performs for advertisers. Yahoo native ads, when combined with mobile search, lift top-of-mind brand awareness up to 279%…
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Outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says President Obama has embraced the “agenda of Islamic jihad” at every turn. “I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the president of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad, ” she said in an interview…
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This study was made possible in part by funds granted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and administered by the Urban Language Study of the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. Its contents are solely my responsibility. I am indebted to Joey L. Dillard, Anita Friedman, Mogens B. Larsen, Bengt Loman, and William A. Stewart for their…
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| Filed under: Wow! When it comes to making memes, the internet wastes NO time!! Unless you ve been living under a rock, you ve probably heard the name Rachel Dolezal floating around the Twitter-verse this morning! You know, the head of the Spokane NAACP who pretended to be an African-American woman for YEARS before she was eventually found out! Well…
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I like celebrity gossip. I find it fascinating! Though I keep an intellectual distance because I assume they re mostly made up stories, ever since I first encountered a People magazine at my grandma s house I have never broken the habit of following who is dating who, who is rumored to be cheating, and other scandalous stories. I don t listen to top…
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Young, Black and Fabulous gossip blog is one of the hottest black celebrity gossip sites on the net. Natasha E. is the writer and editor of the site. And THE YBF is the product of her obsession with all that is Hollywood and celebrity. THE YBF blasts all that is fabulous and foolywang with over 13 million readers a month joining in on the ish talking…
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(image via Vice Magazine.) I stumbled upon celebrity gossip community “Oh No They Didn’t” in 2007. I was bored, working a part-time job as a receptionist at a real-estate agency, and Britney Spears had just shaved her head. Things were pretty slow that day, so I was basically glued to the computer screen, hitting refresh over and over, sending links…
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Bangalore centre will be the focal point for all product development as MEDIATA accelerates its strategic plan. MEDIATA, the APAC audience management and targeting platform, has announced that it has opened a Development centre in Bangalore, India. The team will take on all product development and product research responsibilities for the Hong Kong…
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Rather than adopting a national communications strategy, the government tailored their message to reach different communities. The NWAC worked with high street businesses such as WH Smith to produce and distribute millions of pamphlets and postcards. While some focussed on portraying the enemy in a negative light, others emphasised the importance of…
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Involving communities in the design process results in products that are more responsive to a community s needs, more suited to accessibility and usability concerns, and easier to adopt. Civic media tools, platforms, and research work best when practitioners involve target communities at all stages of the process–iterative ideation, prototyping, testing…
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City officials rallied Oprah, Caroline Kennedy to back Cathie
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You’ve seen them before: links that say “click here for printer-friendly version” or words to that effect. Every time you follow one of those links, you load a separate document that presents exactly the same information with a different layout, and probably different markup. Article Continues Below That means somebody (or a script) had to take the…
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