Political twitteringBarack Obama is doing it.
John Edwards has been doing it since January. We're talking about
Twitter, a new social networking site where users tell their friends what they're doing in short updates sent via text message, instant message, or though the Web. In his latest update Edwards tells his Twitter friends he's "Leaving event, spoke about ending the crisis in Darfur." Obama twitters that he's "Heading to the first presidential debate." Could the new tool could change the way political campaigns connect with voters?
McCain advertising to liberals?Why is Republican Sen. John McCain advertising on the most widely read liberal blog,
Daily Kos? That's the question many on the site are
asking. Democrats logging on to the site last night to discuss the presidential debate were greeted by a large McCain banner ad supporting the war in Iraq. McCain's campaign tells CNN they didn't choose to advertise specifically on Daily Kos, but that their ads are distributed through Google's ad network and placed on a wide variety of Web sites.
Resume lies exposedMIT's dean of admissions
resigned on Thursday after the university discovered that she lied on her resume about her degrees and never even graduated from college. Marilee Jones has not only looked at thousands of resumes, but she had been a vocal advocate for honesty and transparency in the college admissions process. Jones had her own
MIT blog where she dispensed admissions advice to parents and high school students. In previous posts, she
writes that "often the message we send to young people is that they are not good enough as they are." In a
statement on MIT's Web site, Jones says "she did not have the courage to correct her resume when she applied for her current job or at any time since" and is "deeply sorry."
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