Word: blogger
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...sketchy offers, which are outsourced, but neither did it have a handle on them. "We have always policed offers for content," says Pincus. "But there's thousands of offers and hundreds of new ones every week." Facebook and MySpace tightened their guidelines after getting complaints. Then a tech blogger confronted the CEO of a company that creates offers. She answered his accusations unwisely ("S___, double s___ and bulls___"), and it blew up online. Also on the Internet: footage of Pincus speaking at a University of California, Berkeley, event about how he funded his start-up. "I did every horrible thing...
...touched off a series of responses and rebuttals published by the New York Times in the form of letters to the editor. Gladwell’s response defended the accuracy of his essays and criticized Pinker for using a source he referred to as “a California blogger...who is perhaps best known for his belief that black people are intellectually inferior to white people...
...Around 8 a.m. several hundred demonstrators had gathered around Guangzhou's city hall, some carrying signs that read, "Oppose the trash incinerator; Support a green Panyu." About 100 police officers converged to face off with the protesters, says Wen Yunchao, a blogger who was at the scene. "The protest has been organized and peaceful," he said. When asked by officials to select five representatives to negotiate their demands, the crowd began to chant, "We don't want to be represented," said Wen. People seen as protest leaders are often targeted for future punishment...
...Guangzhou officials say they have begun an environmental assessment of the incinerator project and are accepting public opinions of the plans. But they have a long way to go before public opinion is assuaged. Wen, the blogger, described one older woman who knelt for more than two hours in front of the municipal building in protest. The crowd began to chant, 'Auntie is kneeling; mayor come out.' Wen posted the call on his Twitter account, where it repeated dozens more times during the day by Chinese users...
Even when the energy took a dark turn, the wave of emotion may have still served the interests of the 27-year-old Egyptian regime. "Football is the opium of the people," says Hossam el-Hamalawy, a prominent Egyptian blogger, journalist and activist. "Both Egypt and Algeria have been going through severe economic turmoil recently, in addition to political crises. What better way to divert the people's attention than a football...