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Twitter used to ask What are you doing? No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know What s happening? Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced the change in Twitter s tag line in a blog post on Thursday.

Social media pioneer Anil Dash has left his position as a top executive at blogging company Six Apart to found Expert Labs , a non-profit aimed at crowdsourcing expertise to help government make better policy decisions.

A top model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London has been found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said today.

Twitter's now all about what's happening, according to co-founder Biz Stone. Picture: AFP.

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Merriam-Webster's annual Words of the Year dating to 2003, when the publisher started making the selection: 2009: Admonish - "to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner." Extensively looked up after Rep.

President Barack Obama has answered written questions from a Cuban blogger who has become famous by daring to criticize life in her country on line.

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Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he's leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator called Expert Labs .

A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker.

Did the Obama administration really pump billions of dollars into "phantom" congressional districts? Republicans, bloggers and conservative think tanks have been circulating reports suggesting that money intended to create jobs and shore up the economy was unaccounted for, misused or lost in some sort of bookkeeping black hole.

State media heralded President Barack Obama's maiden trip to China as a triumph, but ordinary Chinese were largely shielded by their government from his most critical remarks and activists were disappointed by the measured tone of those they did hear.

Microsoft acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code.

YouTube is releasing a new open-source interface called YouTube Direct that aims to make it easier for news organisations to have access to relevant clips from citizen journalists, it was widely reported.

Anti-gay comments by conservative blogger and radio show host Doug Lambert have drawn fire from all corners - " from his own radio show co-host to Congressman Paul Hodes.

Six Apart's TypePad blogging service has long been aimed at bloggers who were serious enough about what they were doing to fork over money for a blogging platform.

Six years ago, as a destitute PhD student writing her doctoral thesis in London, Brooke Magnanti decided to become a call girl.

If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.

Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking website, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.

A conservative Republican radio host, blogger and self-described citizen journalist is apologizing for calling New Hampshire's Democratic Party chairman derogatory gay names - comments his party and a leading gay activist are condemning.