Home
RSS
Jim Wallace, A former Australian Special Air Services commander turned conservative Christian commentator has sparked controversy by posting a tweet attacking Homosexuals and Muslims. On ANZAC day, the national holiday which commemorates The...
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
16
Star It 
(1)
Yesterday I reported that the New Zealand Press Association is closing its doors after over 130 years. So goes a staple of the old media. I got most of my information...
made popular Apr 8 2011
Social networking site Twitter has been subpoenaed by the US government for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.
While twitter...
made popular Jan 10 2011
Part one of a two-part must read story for all those who want to know how to handle traffic cops asking for bribes. Learn from the best, learn from Johnny John!
made popular Dec 20 2010
The Twitter community is angry that a judge at Doncaster Crown Court has refused to quash Paul Chambers conviction. Earlier this year, accountant Paul Chambers was...
made popular Nov 15 2010
Media apathy towards ban on his novel prompts ailing old novelist to launch his own crusade.
made popular Nov 10 2010
A recent Twitter failure caused thousands of unknowing users to declare themselves zoophiliacs with automatic tweets stating “I like anal sex with...
made popular Sep 29 2010
‘O bless her heart, Sarah Palin needs spell-check.
Sarah Palin loves to Tweet on Twitter and offer insightful musings on her Facebook status update. And - it...
made popular Sep 16 2010
Twitter Inc. has redesigned its website for the first time in its four-year history to draw more users and get them to stay longer as it competes for advertising...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Health department of Assam has been launching various massive health programme for the common people but due to a few inefficient and corrupt officials most of the...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Now this is like a coup only. We all know that ever since Aishwarya Rai married Abhishek Bachchan, the Bachchans have maintained their dignified distance from her ex...
made popular Sep 4 2010
“I get sidetracked by other things,” says Teddy, a rising senior who says he thinks about getting to bed around 10 p.m. But then he might start gaming. Or...
made popular Aug 26 2010
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and his Facebook opponents.
Lebanese politics is always a dangerous game, literally. In recent years the nation has seen a...
made popular Jul 29 2010
You can never fault Sarah Palin for not coming up with creative ways to mask her stupidity. And Palin has probably been in this business for quite a while. This is a...
made popular Jul 21 2010
The bodies of eleven men and one woman were found dumped along the highway in the area known as “The Yescas”, which divides the cities of Matamoros and...
made popular Jul 14 2010
Bullets, drugs, gangsters. The news out of Mexico has been a steady stream of violence since President Felipe Calderon began his war on the drug cartels.
Several...
made popular Jun 23 2010
A gas platform has sunk in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, but the energy minister says it poses no risk to the environment.
President Hugo Chavez...
made popular May 14 2010
The border town of Reynosa, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, is under siege.
There’s a three-way street war between the Mexican authorities and two drug...
made popular May 12 2010
Picture the scene: the gilded (yet suitably austere) presidential palace of Hugo Chávez, ringing with exclamations of frustration as he tries to shoehorn his...
made popular Apr 29 2010
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Venezuela’s narcissist President Hugo Chavez has decided to join Twitter. As if he doesn’t have enough outlets to share his political diatribes. He spends...
made popular Apr 28 2010
As violence in Mexico increases, information on incidents between the criminal organizations and the Mexican military has become difficult to come by.
made popular Apr 20 2010
Every 140-character snippet of info you’ve ever shared publicly on Twitter will soon have a home next to the Declaration of Independence.
Twitter and the Library...
made popular Apr 15 2010
Tunisian president Ben Ali recently paid a public visit where he oversaw the nation’s technological sector and progress:
The progress of mechanisms set up with...
made popular Apr 15 2010
Britain’s governing Labour Party fired a candidate in the national election Friday after he made offensive and profane comments about his political foes on his...
made popular Apr 10 2010
The Israel lobby theory has gained a lot of fans since it was first published by University of Chicago and Harvard professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt,...
made popular Mar 23 2010
“We feel Saudi Arabia has a long and close relationship with Pakistan and that makes Saudi a more valuable interlocutor to us,” Shashi Tharoor. This very...
made popular Mar 12 2010
The suggestion that the couple were both committing adultery first emerged on Twitter, the microblogging website. It was followed by a report in the Sunday newspaper le...
made popular Mar 10 2010
No matter where one stands on the issue of abortion, I think we can all agree that twittering about the experience is the height of tastelessness and tackiness....
made popular Feb 27 2010
Mexican ‘twitterers’ have united and are reporting not only what local medias refuse to report, but also what both the Governor and Mayors of Tamaulipas...
made popular Feb 27 2010
CHINA’S President Hu Jintao has set up a microblogging account that has drawn thousands of followers in a country where social networking sites remain tightly...
made popular Feb 25 2010
Today Yahoo! announced a partnership with Twitter which includes integrating Twitter content and social features across the Yahoo! network.
made popular Feb 24 2010
South Korea announced controls on Friday on how the microblogging service Twitter can be used during elections, an issue that has some people calling for changes in the...
made popular Feb 20 2010
Social media last week dove into the debate of free versus pay online content. Sparked by Warner Music\’s plan to favor Web sites that charge users, bloggers...
made popular Feb 20 2010
Imagine you wake up one morning and suddenly there are restrictions on your Facebook account. Think of the upheaval when Facebook merely changed its landing page and...
made popular Feb 18 2010
Google has taken the wraps off its latest social network known as Buzz.
The service - integrated directly with its e-mail service Gmail - allows users to post status...
made popular Feb 10 2010
I had previously written about the Moronic (it deserves to be capitalized) twist of the puppet Bahraini foreign minister Khalid
The are numerous buffoons amongst Arab...
made popular Feb 10 2010
The are numerous buffoons amongst Arab regimes, but high amongst the list is Bahrain’s foreign minister Khalid al-Khalifa. Bahrain is another American client in...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Mexicans are using Twitter to avoid drunk-driving checkpoints. Drug cartels might be using it too. Does that justify restricting social networking sites?
made popular Feb 3 2010
Mr Twitter, our external affair minister, Shashi Tharoor shown his cattle class to criticize Nehru & Mahatma Gandhi’s foreign policy. He said “I agree...
made popular Jan 16 2010
Never underestimate the thuggery of the Ben Ali regime. Although never the scourge of Western criticism for human rights abuses, because hypocritical Western...
made popular Jan 5 2010
© Copyright 2009 Instablogs. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Powered by InstaPress