twitter and job searching...

10 job tweeters you should be following
By Anthony Balderrama
CareerBuilder.com writer
CNN.com

When microblogging and social networking site Twitter debuted three years ago, plenty of people wrote it off as yet another pointless addition in the overcrowded networking world.

Considering the site only allows people to post, or Tweet, messages of 140 characters or less, you can't blame early skeptics.

But little by little, users proved the site's worth to nonbelievers. Last year, student James Karl Buck was traveling in Egypt and wound up in jail. He Tweeted "arrested" to notify his friends of what was going open and ultimately get out of jail.

During the 2008 presidential election, candidates reached out to voters using the service. When a plane crashed into the Hudson River in January, a Twitter user posted the first photograph from the scene. Read more here

another music sharing lawsuit...

It seems like record companies are getting serious about file-sharing music. A Boston University grad student has to pay $675,000 for downloading and distributing 30 songs. It appears that people who download and distribute music are the ones the record companies are hitting hard. This student has to pay $22,500 per song. Seems kind of extreme to me but I guess they're trying to send a message. Check out the article.

an artificial pancreas...

Researchers believe they made a important step in the treatment of diabetes. If you have diabetes or know someone who has it, then you're aware of the constant checking of blood sugar, insulin injections, changing diet, medications, etc. Researchers are currently conducting clinical trials on an artificial pancreas that can aid in the treatment of diabetes. Hopefully, the results of the trials will be highly successful. Check out the article.

BET Awards...

First off, let me say that I don't believe the whole show was a waste. Their were some good performances (the O'Jays, Jamie's tribute song to MJ, etc.) and good moments (Alicia Keys and Wyclef's humanitarian awards, Janet Jackson's incredible strength on stage, etc.) but everything else...everything else can pretty much be summed up in this clip.





just my thoughts...

Michael Jackson's death causes Internet traffic...

Michael Jackson's fame is so huge that his death caused internet sites to be temporally overloaded with users. Read the article below...

Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him

By Linnie Rawlinson and Nick Hunt
CNN

LONDON, England (CNN) -- How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson.

The biggest showbiz story of the year saw the troubled star take a good slice of the Internet with him, as the ripples caused by the news of his death swept around the globe.

"Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson," a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as "volcanic."

As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton's blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received.

CNN reported a fivefold rise in traffic and visitors in just over an hour, receiving 20 million page views in the hour the story broke. Read whole article here.

the king of pop...

The man didn't just have hits...he had CLASSICS. If I start listing his classic songs, I might end up listing every song he ever made. I remember when I was a kid, I would come home after school and ask my parents to put on the Thriller music video and Moonwalker. I grew up to MJ's music. From the Jackson 5 to Invincible...Michael was it.

RIP

$1.9M for file-sharing music...

Facing the music: $1.9M file-sharing verdict stuns Minn. mom
USAtoday.com

By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.

A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded recording companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song.

Thomas-Rasset's second trial actually turned out worse for her. When a different federal jury heard her case in 2007, it hit Thomas-Rasset with a $222,000 judgment.

The new trial was ordered after the judge in the case decided he had erred in giving jury instructions. Read rest of article here.