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Today’s Bizarre News Scoop

October 20, 2011
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So yesterday in California it was the tanker spill that closed highway 101, today it was the truck full of live chickens that closed I-80. The driver “fell asleep” and crashed. And in Ohio authorities shot 49 exotic animals including 18 endangered tigers because the owner who was charged with animal cruelty charges released...

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Sneaky ways of Advertising Online

September 24, 2011
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With an increasing amount of people using social networks and web based emails, there evolve new and sneaky ways of advertising. Some of these are hard to recognize. Here are a few examples. The other day I receive an email from Trazzler. “Free Weekends in Carmel and Big Sur“. That sounded great, why not?...

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Social Network Isolation

August 10, 2011
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Now that everyone is part of some kind of “special network” the social isolation is reaching its peak. Some people are on Facebook, some on Google+, others are on Skype or yet a dozen of so networks. How do we connect the dots? Only in world wide web, if we're lucky. What happened to...

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Obama killed Osama

May 3, 2011
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May Day, May Day, 'Geronimo-E KIA' was the U.S. military code for Osama Bin Laden E-enemy and KIA - killed in action. President Obama ordered the raid on Pakistani compound where the man who's been hunted for more than 10 years, had been found and killed along with his family (wife and son). Sunday...

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Army Times is Hiring!

May 21, 2010
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Some people have been complaining about the lack of jobs in the journalism world and that may be still so, but there is a new trend of journalism emerging. It is called reporting embedded alongside its publisher's marketing campaigns. And Army Times is leading the way in this market.

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Meet HAARP [Video]

February 1, 2010
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For those of you who do not like to read, I found a decent video about HAARP. This is by Tru.TV, Jesse Ventura’s conspiracy show. If you minus the over dramatizations and the word “conspiracy”, it is a good overview of what HAARP is. The video is 4 parts. Enjoy!

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Welcome to Ukraine: National Geographic in Russian

September 29, 2009
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Oksana welcomes everyone to Ukraine where National Geographic, among other American channels, is broadcasted with Russian translation.

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The Future of Journalism

July 30, 2009
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The Future of Journalism

While observing media conglomerates collapsing under their own weight, reading the below minimum wage job ads for journalists and filtering through promotional articles, I couldn't help but wonder, what is going to happen to the journalism profession? My search for answers got me all the way to Harvard.

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Swine Flu Frenzy and Setting up the stage for new vaccine

June 23, 2009
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I was about to embark on another project with ICEA this late spring when the news of the swine flu virus broke out carried out by almost every major news outlet. The CDC was proclaiming yet different stage of the threat: pandemic, not pandemic yet, but close… Airports were empty, many people...

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Dick Cheney at NPC (the Daily Show's take)

June 4, 2009
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USA's former vice president Dick Cheney visited the National Press Club earlier this month. As a speaker invited to a ...

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