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Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing (Network World)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:21:50 +0000

Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that have plagued the micro-blogging service in the past year. On Wednesday, Twitter introduced its own anti-phishing service designed to protect its users from these types of attacks. The new security measures will focus on Twitter direct messages (DMs) — private tweets addressed to a specific user — and corresponding …

Join The Denver Post’s live-blogging caucus team (Denver Post)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:13:39 +0000

Republicans and Democrats will be gathering in schools and all manner of public spaces across Colorado on Tuesday night for precinct caucuses.

Teen finds fame with fashion blog (Detroit News)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:03:47 +0000

Jane Aldridge was barely 15 when she began blogging about her love for expensive designer shoes.

Spoiler alert! We’re live blogging tonight’s ‘American Idol’: Top 8 guys (Seattle Times)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:58:55 +0000

We’re live-blogging tonight’s episode of “American Idol,” featuring the performances of the Top 8 guys, from 5-6 p.m. Pacific time, 9-10 p.m. Eastern.

Reporter hits the road with Lobo fans (KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:10:38 +0000

It’s Vegas, baby, for KRQE News 13 reporter Jeff Todd as he talks about his upcoming adventure joining a busload of Lobo fans headed to the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament in Las Vegas. Jeff will be blogging, tweeting and texting along the way.

Bloomberg Crowns Henry Blodget ‘King of the Blogosphere’ [Blogging For Dollars] (Gawker)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:35:57 +0000

# bloggingfordollars Bloomberg TV proclaims that, just as Amazon.com reinvented itself as a megamart, former Amazon.com bull Henry Blodget has reinvented himself as Blogger King. Hey, if Blodget’s blogs do as well as his Amazon.com call , Perez Hilton should watch his tiara. More »

Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:19:00 +0000

Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that have plagued the micro-blogging service in the past year.

Live blog coverage of the boys state tournament quarterfinals (Santa Fe New Mexican)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:19:10 +0000

Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Stop in and join today’s live blog coverage of the boys’ quarterfinal round. Sports writer James Barron is live blogging from the games this morning and will be joined later today by writer Geoff Grammer.

Surge in Twitter use draws in the cyber crooks (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:28 +0000

Twitter users are becoming more active, but so too are the cyber criminals targeting the micro-blogging site to infect PCs with malware, according to the latest figures from Barracuda Labs.

Can Blogging Damage Your Career? (GenomeWeb News)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:50:08 +0000

Michael White at Adaptive Complexity asks whether it’s possible for scientists to sabotage their careers by blogging . Branching off of the musings of writer Jared Diamond, who wrote in 1997 that “scientists who do communicate effectively with the public often find their colleagues responding with scorn, and even punishing them in ways that affect their careers,” White contemplates the issue.