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Would You Fill Out the Obama Job App?
The Moderate Voice —
... Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages. ...
If Only The Media Investigated Barry Like He Does For Potential Employees
Pirate's Cove —
... Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages. ...
If Only The Media Investigated Barry Like He Does For Potential Employees
Stop The ACLU —
... well, that are forcing job-seekers to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document both their achievements and missteps. Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages. Some of the questions include Interestingly, much of the real substance in the ...
NYC Health Dept.'s E-Condoms Just in Time for Valentine's Day
Hit & Run —
The same folks who brought New Yorkers who threw transfats ouf the Big Apple and are now trying to ban salt -- all for your own good of course -- unveiled their Facebook page featuring e-condoms. As the New York Times explains: The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which introduced the city’s official condom on Valentine’s Day two years ago, has introduced a Facebook page and Facebook application to promote the use of condoms. ... As of ...
Nothing Left
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda —
... In less than a week, Jonathan appeared on “Fox and Friends” and CNN, and broadcast network anchors requested interviews. He has lost count of the number of radio shows he has spoken on. Though his family has received hate mail, accusing them of brainwashing their son, a Jonathan Krohn fan club has sprung up on Facebook. High honors: ...
Paranormal Activity Social Media Record Breaker
The Moderate Voice —
... Social media.
The film is about a young couple who become convinced that a demonic presence lurks in their bedroom at night, so they decide to set up a video camera to catch it. The movie…opened at the end of September with midnight screenings in just 13 small college towns.
From there, it has become a Web sensation, with chatter about the movie bouncing from Twitter to Facebook, spurring a coming nationwide release.
The company behind the viral buzz is ...
A Shoe Box Full of New York Arrives in Afghanistan
City Room —
The first word came early last week, flashed to Manhattan from a British Army forward operating base in Helmand Province in a Facebook message. Then confirmation arrived in a phone call Friday at lunchtime. There was a short delay on the line, but the message was clear: The ultimate New York care package had arrived in ...
The Early Word: On the Road
The Caucus —
... show Monday were old news. And, going for true multi-platform domination, Ms. Palin, already a proficient Facebooker, has ramped up her newsfeed presence. (She has nearly 1 million Facebook friends, twice as many as Senator ...
