One of the stranger aspects of information about pervasive doping in the sport trickling out over the past decade on blogs and Twitter feeds written by cycling fans and amateur racers is that very few fans with knowledge of professional cycling were at all surprised by this week's revelations.
He mocked American journalists' glorification of Twitter's supposedly pivotal role during last year's short-lived uprising in Iran, suggesting that the rebels' celebrated Twitter feeds — written in English, not Farsi — did more to titillate blogging technophiles in the West than to aid Iranians in their struggle against totalitarian rulers.
You can read your blog feeds, write posts, and find out what other Profy bloggers and commenters are reading in their feed readers (if they choose to make that public).
Social media news feeds, wrote the authors, do expose Facebook users to "at least some ideologically cross-cutting viewpoints".
In new, privately-owned Enterprise Houses Plus, fresh masses of "undeserving poor" will find themselves homed in cold, bare dormitories segregated by gender, and put to work cracking rocks, digging and then filling in holes, manning corporate twitter feeds, writing listicles for trendy, indeterminately oppositional news websites and other sorts of pointless, mind-numbing busywork.
Instead, as 4,000 people are on the website one night, Wade and Goldman keep writing and feeding, writing and feeding.
"These actions did not eliminate misinformation entirely in this election – but they did make it harder to spread, and less likely to appear in people's News Feeds," wrote Richard Allan, Facebook's VP of Public Policy for EMEA.
Scribner has acquired the rights to publish a book based on the profanity-laced Twitter feed written by a fake Rahm Emanuel, later revealed to be Dan Sinker.
[DNA Info Rachel Figueroa-Levin of Manhattan is the brains behind ElBloombito, a parody Twitter feed written using Mayor Bloomberg's voice in pidgin Spanish. [Daily News] (Also see DNA Info).
Searle, who knows no Chinese, imagines himself inside a room, into which someone feeds messages written in Chinese.
"Pacifiers have traditionally been thought to interfere with optimal breast-feeding," wrote the researchers, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
