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Giving it to you straight. Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Flog a blog? Photo: Gaping Void Blogs and networking sites have taken a strange hue of late.

John Chow and daughter Sally, age 3, Twitter in West Vancouver on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

Back in August, we covered the launch of TwitCause , a service not unlike Causes on Facebook, only built on top of Twitter.

Purdue University in Indiana has launched an application called Hotseat that records what students Tweet, Facebook or text message in class, aggregating that content on a lecture screen for everyone in class to see.

Mark Hughes In Baltimore: Just minutes after I arrived, I was at the scene of a shooting ... Today marks the first part of a unique collaboration between The Independent and The Baltimore Sun in which our crime correspondent, Mark Hughes, swaps places with his counterpart, Justin Fenton.

Chinese netizens are marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a little anarchy of their own.

Stephen Fry insists he'll only keep on Twittering as long as he's enjoying it. The comedian recently caused a fuss by saying he might quit the social-networking site.

November 5: Twitter rolls out Project Retweet to a limited audience. According to their recent blog post, the Twitter echelon wants to see how it will "work in the wild," before offering it up to the Twitterverse.

"Ever had leprosy? Thanks to animal research, you won't." That message, emblazoned on 15 billboards around the Twin Cities, strikes at the heart of a largely hidden but heated health care battle being waged beyond the national debate over access to medical care.

By Sara Nelson Having had two abortions and a miscarriage, Penelope Trunk was certain she didn't want another child.

A screenshot of the website showing 'tweets' about the Berlin Wall. Before the site was blocked in China, most were in Chinese.

Jessica Simpson and Dolly Parton have found more to bond over than their blonde locks and country crooning.

ET has obtained a statement from the rep of Levi Johnston to Twitter claiming that the father to Sarah Palin 's grandchild was being impersonated on the social networking site.

Twitter has dropped a message onto its status blog to say that it's testing a new set of notifications for those who use Twitter.com to interact with the service.

Exactly one year ago today, on the night of November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the next President of the United States.

I was recently interviewed by a journalist on the issue of Twitter and social media, and how it might impact traditional media.

However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries.

In a case being called Twittergate, a Republican Party county chairman wants to know whether state party leaders knew about a fake Twitter account set up to defame him.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and big sis Jessica Simpson Oct. 3, 2009 in Las Vegas to celebrate Ashlee's 25th birthday.

Tonight, Amazon sent an email to members of Amazon Associates letting them know about a new feature: Twitter integration.