Reading: Draft Dick Cheney - A committee is born (via @ColonelTribune)
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A One-Word Comment Cost a School Employee His Job
A vulgar comment was made by a reader of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's website on Friday on an article about the strangest things you've ever eaten. The headline was practically asking for a juvenile response and, thanks to the anonymity of the internet, that's exactly what happened. In the comments section of the article, one user posted a single word response referring to a part of a woman's anatomy. Of course, the site's moderators quickly deleted the comment but it soon reappeared - obviously this juvenile was intent on having their say.
But this time, instead of just deleting the comment in question, the site's director of social media, Kurt Greenbaum, did a little sleuthing too. He found that the commenter's IP address was coming from a local school...and that's where this story starts to get interesting.
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Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr...Can news orgs be everywhere?... This evening there was some buzz about Newsweek's Tumblr, after Nieman Lab tweeted about it. Its design is quite nice and it includes a lot of content that is curated...
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