Above is a powerful video on the Boston Marathon events titled, “Five Days in April”.

The Boston globe is reporting that:

Russian authorities warned the FBI in early 2011 that suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have been a follower of “radical Islam,” a revelation that raised new questions in Congress on Saturday about whether the Boston Marathon attacks that killed three and wounded more than 170 could have been prevented.

A senior congressional aide privy to the Boston Marathon terror investigation confirmed Saturday that the FBI received the warning after Tsarnaev’s apparently suspicious activities caught the attention of Russian authorities keeping close surveillance on militant Islamist groups in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union.

The FBI acknowledged Friday that it had investigated Tsarnaev in 2011, even interviewing him and his family, but “did not find any terrorism activity,” either domestic or foreign.

Read more about the Boston Marathon bombing here.

John Saddington asks you to dream about a world where you have “complete creative control and publishing freedom with the ability to publish filtered photos directly to your WordPress blog!”

Well, that dream will hopefully become a reality.

Pressgram is a Kickstarter project right now, but the idea is that it will start out as an iOS app (with other platforms to come in the future) that you can choose to tie to your WordPress (self-hosted or WordPress.com) installation.

Photos that you take with your device can be filtered and uploaded, or just kept on your device and then offloaded without being published.

The big idea is that they want to build an independent publishing platform that isn’t beholden to strange and changing Privacy Policies, Terms of Service, or Licensing agreements under big-name publicly traded social networks for the users to get confused over.

Stick it to the “man” and support this app —> http://kck.st/XHU8xN

In the second of James K. A. Smith’s three-volume theology of culture, Imagining the Kingdom, the Smith expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his acclaimed Desiring the Kingdom.

Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Bourdieu, this book helps readers understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation–both “secular” and Christian–affects one’s fundamental orientation to the world.

Below are video interviews about Smith’s two books:

If you are wanting to learn more about social media then you should be listening to the Social Pros Podcast – Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media.

Each 30 minute episode includes:

1. Interview with a leading social media strategist, manager, director of community, or similar working for a corporation or organization.
2. Social Media Stat of the Week, discussed and ratified or debunked by Jay Baer and Jeff Rohrs.
3. Social Pros Shoutout, where the weekly guest shares 2-3 of his or her social media heroes and where you can find them around the web.

Social Pros shines the spotlight on social media practitioners, people doing the real work for real companies.

Today at SXSW in Austin, TX, Marvel Comics announced a jaw-dropping promotion on the digital comic store. Over 700 free #1 issues of Marvel Comics from the past and present are now free to download through the end of Tuesday, March 12. Marvel is taking aim at attracting comic book readers both new and veteran with the new initiative.

Download the 700 free #1 issues —> here.