Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

A dozen Buddhists to follow on Twitter

HuffPostReligion

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Buddhists and those curious about the tradition and the issues facing it today might be interested in the Twitter streams a dozen prominent tweeters have going. Social media is a great starting point to get in on the conversation. The Huffington Post has compiled a list of several prominent teachers, writers, and organizations it follows to help it stay clued in on the wide world of Buddhism. Suggestions?

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Ask Obama: Today on Twitter



Obama takes message to public via Twitter
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama answers questions from Twitter users today (Wednesday, July 7, 2011). But the US president is not confining his answers to 140 characters. Obama will verbally answer questions posed on the short-messaging service during a "Twitter Town Hall" being streamed live from the White House at askobama.twitter.com.


Here are our questions, 140 characters at a time if necessary. Feel free to use any or all of it in your tweets to our fearless leader:

Dear Mr. President, you are doing a great job helping show the world that race is no obstacle to greatness. Now, what's this about allowing only 10,000 troops to come home from Afghanistan? You increased troop levels by 50,000 in two surges. And that's not counting all the "advisers," CIA agents, and private mercenaries (Halliburton, Xe, Blackwater, etc.) Meanwhile, the US war on Iraq rages. Then you illegally started another war on Libya and get uncharacteristically cocky when Congress calls you on it? And yet you still find time to stoke war in Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Are these the "thousand points of light" of G.H. Bush New World Order? Or what exactly is the point of waging a secret war on Pakistan with drones and bombing raids? Or your war on truth and disclosure by pursuing Bradley Manning and Julian Assange over WikiLeaks? Establish the peace. It's easy: End these wars. We have "corporate business" interests there, it's true. Let our corporations wage their own wars. We cannot afford it. We have too much debt and too much taxation, and for what? For invading other countries in offensive "kinetic actions"? Sir, are we a peace-loving country or a violent empire? Let's work here at home on creating jobs and stabilizing this economy. We agree with Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, who say we have to keep your feet to the fire to make sure you achieve the greatness you're capable of. The world does not need another Justice Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain. War is PROFITABLE, we know, but there are other ways for our corporations to make money instead of siphoning American citizens via foreign wars. At least stop the propaganda about all the good we are doing for the world by polluting and bombing it. Thank you. By the way, you're a great public speaker. Keep it up.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Fun with Texting!!!

Steven Hodson (Inquistr.com, Australia)

"OMG, hi!!! this is so fun!!!" "0.k., now u send me 1."

As a society we seem to love nothing better than creating psychological disorders around every new fad that comes our way. And it seems that texting is no different.

The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia has a post up in which Jennie Carroll, a Melbourne technology researcher with RMIT University, claims to have "discovered" four separate disorders when it comes to texting and children.

Yes, children are once again in danger of themselves and this wicked and evil texting thing. Why? Well, they just don’t know any better.

Carroll says teenagers who text too much could find themselves suffering from:

  1. Textaphrenia: thinking we’ve heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message.
  2. Textiety: a feeling of anxiety from not receiving or sending any text messages.
  3. Post-Traumatic Text Disorder: injuries related to texting, such as walking into objects by not paying attention to surroundings.
  4. Binge Texting: sending massive numbers of texts to build self-esteem among peers. More