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Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' language - Telegraph
"I hear it, too, from people at drama schools, who say the younger intake find the density of a Shakespeare text a challenge in a way that, perhaps, (students) a few generations ago maybe wouldn't have." He said: "I think we're living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant? But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themes in his plays are always relevant." Fiennes, who does not use Twitter, is not alone in his theory. JP Davidson, the author of Planet Word and a linguistic expert, talked this week about longer words dying out in favour of shortened text message-style terms.Roughly 150 protesters with Occupy Chicago stormed City Hall Wednesday demanding to assert their “First Amendment rights” with Mayor Rahm Emanuel…but to no avail. The brash Emanuel — who once sent a “Sicilian message” in the form of a putrid, decomposed fish to a pollster who irritated him; threatened former British Prime Minister Tony Blair not to “f–ck this up;” and knifed a dinner table in concert with rattling off names of sworn enemies — must have stowed away his confrontational side for the day. The Windy City mayor did not emerge to meet the protesters even once during their one-hour-long demonstration. Instead, the jilted activists resorted to handing their petitions — ones demanding they be allowed to occupy Grant Park — to an Emanuel aide. In addition to setting up permanent residence in Grant Park, the petitions, bearing 13,000 signatures, also demanded Police Supt.
Occupy Chicago Marches on City Hall Demands to Speak to Mayor Rahm Emanuel | TheBlaze.com
LONDON: Marketing chiefs feel overwhelmed by the growing volume of customer data on websites like Facebook and Twitter, and while they realise its potential value they consider themselves ill-equipped to harness it, an IBM study found. Only 26 percent of chief marketing officers track blogs and just 40 percent track any online communications, while 82 percent still rely on traditional market research to shape marketing strategies, according to the study. A few top consumer brands, such as Coca-Cola , Nike and Starbucks -- are using high-profile social media campaigns to great effect to find out what their customers want and to communicate with them. But most CMOs are struggling to prove that investments in social media marketing would yield returns, according to the survey of more than 1,700 CMOs published on Tuesday and carried out in face-to-face interviews from February to June. "The perfect solution is to serve each consumer individually.
Marketers struggle to harness social media like Facebook & twitter: IBM Survey - The Economic Times
He was jailed for 11 days during the protests in Egypt, but when he was released he was given a tumultuous welcome by the protesters in Tahrir Square, for whom he became something of a figurehead. Intriguingly, Mr Jagland hinted that the award might be given not to an individual but to "a big mission - something important for the world." That has given rise to some predictions that the committee could even honour Twitter or Facebook, which emerged as vital tools for activists to harness opposition to Arab regimes, plan protests and document attacks on demonstrators. Equally, it could mean that the "We are all Khaled Said" group might emerge as the winner.
Nobel Peace Prize: Could Facebook or Twitter win? - Telegraph
How Twitter is preparing for its big iOS debut — Tech News and Analysis
It’s shaping up to be a busy autumn for Twitter. The company’s microblogging service will be integrated into the next version of Apple’s iOS operating system, which is set to roll out at the big Apple event slated for October 4 . So is Twitter in complete panic mode preparing for the coming onslaught of traffic?When Can Employers Fire You for Facebook, Twitter?
Employers often have rules about Facebook , Twitter and other social media sites, and people have been sacked for going against company policy. But the punishments may not all be justified. According to a report by The Associated Press Monday, a surge of more than 100 complaints has come to the National Labor Relations Board -- the majority within the past year -- over confusion about what is permissible on Facebook and Twitter .
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Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry chiefs quizzed by Parliament over riots | ZDNet
Why Twitter Marketing? : Twitter
Twitter was developed in August of 2006 & has become one of the fastest Social Media Platforms around and in November of 2009 Twitter had reached 5 Billion Tweets. The Growth of Twitter continues to grow at an unstoppable rate. Right now there are over 105 Million registered Users and there are 300,000 new sign ups everyday. Twitter generates almost one in ten Social Media global hits to websites according to web analytics firm, StatCounter.
Four Stages in the Life of a Twitter User [Infographic]
Few years back when i joined twitter, I was not at all convinced with the service. In my opinion at that time, Twitter was primarily for celebrities and socialites to communicate with their fans and followers, but I did realize the power of twitter very soon after that. It’s not just the high valuations these Social Media companies are getting but some of them are really worth it. Twitter has recently become number 1 in breaking any news be it earthquakes, Celebrity giving birth to a baby or death of Micheal Jackson. All of these first broke on twitter.
Boy Scouts of America Introduces New Merit Badge… With Roots That Date Back to 600 AD
DALLAS, Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Scouts will be able to add a new patch to their merit badge sash—a patch for playing a game. However, it’s a game that requires critical thinking skills, deep concentration, and abstract reasoning. The Boy Scouts of America will introduce the Chess merit badge in September encouraging Scouts to enjoy an ancient game while acquiring life skills necessary for today. Requirements for achieving the chess merit badge include such things as learning scorekeeping using the algebraic system of chess notation and explaining the four rules for castling. Additionally, Scouts must teach someone else how to play chess, play in a chess tournament, or organize a competition. “The chess community is excited about this new merit badge from the Boy Scouts of America,” statedBill Hall, Executive Director of the United States Chess Federation (USCF).U.S. Exports Hit $178 Billion in July
By R. Mitchell on Sep 08, 2011 in Money WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The United States exported $178 billion in goods and services in July 2011, an all-time high, according to data released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S.The June 20th report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the United States strongly recommended that the debt ceiling be raised because “if the debt ceiling is not raised soon…[it] would have significant global repercussions, given the central role of U. S. Treasury bonds in world markets. ” In announcing the report, John Lipsky (picture, left), acting managing director for the IMF, said: We’re confident that the participants are well aware of the potential risks of a debt default in the U.
IMF Wants US Debt Ceiling Raised Immediately
Twitter’s engineering team is growing quickly. Two-thirds of our engineers were hired in the last 12 months. Those engineers joined us from cities and countries around the world and from companies of various sizes.
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All this means is that China will do everything in its power to prevent the ECB from launching an outright unsterilized monetization episode, which will double the amount of importable inflation (plunging EUR) to hit the Chinese domestic economy, and destabilize the already shaky stability, so critical for the Chinese communist party. And since the USD and the CNY are pegged, this has the added benefit of devaluaing the CNY instead even more if not against the USD, then against the CNY, which is now importing European sovereign risk and will continue to do so, until China finds itself in the same lock out as half of Europe currently. As for the IMF popularity contest, better known as "who is thst most feminine", it has just been relegated into complete historic obscurity and irrelevance. Which is sad because Lagarde may have actually had something worthwhile to contribute. Too bad her organization was just been rendered obsolete.
China Says It Will Bail Out Insolvent European Countries | zero hedge
Ai Weiwei banned from Twitter for a year - Telegraph
Chinese authorities have not provided information about the location or charges facing Ai's assistant Wen Tao, his accountant Hu Mingfen and designer Liu Zhenggang, who all went missing in April amid a crackdown on dissidents and activists. His mother told The Telegraph earlier this week that the family believed they would be released "soon". "It is the least famous among them who are at the most risk," Catherine Baber, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Asia-Pacific, said in a statement calling for their release and information on charges.RT @bahebakyagaza RT @opeiratis RT @safeworld4women R @sonja_jo: Egyptian journalist uses #Twitter t
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