Robin Wright is a tiny woman with a big message. A journalist, author and foreign policy analyst, Wright was a guest speaker at the Town Hall of Morris Lecture recently, where she shared her insights on the conflicts in the Middle East with hundreds of area residents and students from Boonton and Mountain Lakes high schools.
Go to the social networking sites and you will find little reassurance that the public appetite for gossip and virulent opinion is on the wane. Just the opposite
Saturday, 30 July 2011
The British have always been Janus-faced about the institutions of power and persuasion.
For South Africans with easy access to the internet and technology, information is readily available as and when it happens and at our fingertips. from news and entertainment sites, social networks and Google search to name but a few sources, there is no shortage of coverage on every topic under the sun.
From his first season on “American Idol,” Steven Tyler proved he could go toe to toe with divas like Jennifer Lopez, his fellow judge.
We live in a world and at a time when everyone, it seems, thinks he or she is entitled to information; when the concept of privacy has become incomprehensible to many.
I guess this is to be expected given advances in technology. We have at our disposal all these gadgets supposedly designed to keep us abreast of everything that is happening around us, and elsewhere in the world, 24/7, and on demand. It doesn’t help that we’ve been conditioned to expect nothing less by the influential people in this country. why, if Kris Aquino has no qualms about revealing to the whole world the most intimate details about her life including the indiscretions of her partners, then we should expect nothing less from others of lesser social stature.
The singer’s death at age 27 means she is the latest in line of Rock & Roll stars to die at the same time. the “Forever 27″ club includes Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.
Winehouse’s family pleaded for “privacy and space” on Sunday.”
William Shatner, actor, was briefly booted out from Google+ for ‘violating standards’.
Shatner tweeted on Monday saying, “My Google Plus account was flagged for violating standards. saying hello to everyone apparently is against the rules maybe I should say goodbye?”
Google Badges are colorful icons that tell you what types of news stories you’ve been reading.
(Credit:Google video. Screenshot by Eric Smalley/CNET)
At first glance, Google Badges, a feature released this week on the Google News platform, smacks of kindergarten.
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the AOL Huffington Post Media Group announced today the launch of two new sites: HuffPost Celebrity, “a lively mix of real-time entertainment news, opinion and gossip,” and HuffPost Culture, which will cover “a wide span of the arts, from theater and film to music and dance.”
To hear Martin Clarke tell it, The Daily Mail accrued its online readership in America nearly by accident. Lining a landing page with paparazzi shots headlined with expressions of awe and outrage, making the bikini a newsworthy event—that was not transatlantic outreach, just British custom. “Originally we focused ruthlessly on our British audience because that was the easiest to monetize,” said the publisher and editor of the paper’s website, MailOnline, “but we found we’d ended up with a big American audience without really trying.”