Twitter Village

Will 'Newsroom' Have 'West Wing' Effect?

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:22:00 +0000

Rihanna Shows Off Her Nipples

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:41:00 +0000

Atlanta's Auburn Ave. Endangered Historic Place

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:05:00 +0000

Did Andie MacDowell Get Plastic Surgery?

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Surveillance Video: Deadly Ky. Plant Shooting

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:10:00 +0000

Stars Premiere 'Expecting'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:39:00 +0000

Robotics Experts Hope to Boost Student Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:02:00 +0000

Rob Zombie directs Death Note for Amdro Ant Block

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:43:00 +0000

Study Shows Twitter Matches Public's Mood

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:41:00 +0000

FULL INTERVIEW: Lance Reddick

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:32:00 +0000

Nikita - Power Producer's Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:53:00 +0000

Rihanna Hits the Streets With No Pants

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:52:00 +0000

New Bikini Pics: Ashley Tisdale, Selena Gomez & Bar Refaeli!

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:39:00 +0000

Fashion Fails of the Week: Taylor Momsen & More

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck Welcome Baby Boy

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:14:00 +0000

How to Be a Mime : How to Mime Chewing Gum

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:04:00 +0000

How to Be a Mime : How to Mime Climbing Stairs

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000

Lack of sleep has cognitive impact: Study

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Snooki Is Pregnant!

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0000

ShowBiz Minute: Hudson, Dion, Sheen

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:01:00 +0000

Horse rescued from mud, caught on tape

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:59:00 +0000

FULL INTERVIEW: Trish Stratus

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Keys, Lady Gaga to sign off Twitter for charity

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:46:00 +0000

Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga take charity work seriously, and they're going offline to prove it.

Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and other celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Keys' charity, Keep a Child Alive. The entertainers plan to sign off of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday, which is World AIDS Day. The participants will sign back on when the charity raises $1 million.

"It's really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on," Keys said in a phone interview from New York last week.

For the campaign — which also includes Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys' husband, Swizz Beatz — celebrities have filmed "last tweet and testament" videos and will appear in ads showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.

"It's so important to shock you to the point of waking up," Keys said. "It's not that people don't care or it's not that people don't want to do something, it's that they never thought of it quite like that."

The campaign, she said, puts the disease in perspective.

"This is such a direct and instantly emotional way and a little sarcastic, you know, of a way to get people to pay attention," said Keys, who has more than 2.6 million followers on Twitter.

The foundation, which began in 2003, will accept donations through text messages and bar-code technology, which is featured in the charity's Buy Life campaign. Raised efforts support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

"We're trying to sort of make the remark: Why do we care so much about the death of one celebrity as opposed to millions and millions of people dying in the place that we're all from?" said Leigh Blake, the president and co-founder of Keep a Child Alive.

"It's about love and respect and human dignity," she added.

Keys said recruiting celebrities was difficult because of scheduling, but "once I got people on the phone and I was able to paint the concept for them, everybody was in."

Not one person said no, Keys recalled.

"I have a feeling that Gaga is going to raise it all by herself," Blake said. Lady Gaga has more than 7.2 million followers on Twitter, and nearly 24 million fans on Facebook.

"She's got a very, very mobilized fan base and that's beautiful to watch I think (and) she's able to draw their attention to these issues that are very important, you know, and that people follow it and act."

Keys is hoping more people — both famous folks and non-celebs — get involved once the new initiative launches: "It just doesn't have to be just because you're a celebrity or something like that. It can be anybody."

Keys, 29, married rapper-producer Swizz Beatz in July. The two had their first son, Egypt, last month. The Grammy winner said that though her life's getting busier, being a mother and wife makes her want to help others even more.

"As a human being, you deserve to have a chance at life," she said.

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Online:

http://www.aliciakeys.com

http://www.keepachildalive.org

http://www.buylife.org

UK police learn how to follow crooks — on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:21:00 +0000

LONDON – Trailing suspects is a staple of police work. Aspiring British detectives will soon be learning how to do it online.

Updated training for Britain's annual crop of 3,500 trainee detectives will include pointers on how to track criminals on micro-blogging site Twitter and mine Facebook pages for witnesses, a spokesman for the National Policing Improvement Agency said Friday.

"It's a way of tracking down criminals," the spokesman said. "Finding the sort of people they've contacted and the sort of groups they're a member of."

He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with official policy.

Facebook and Twitter are both enormously popular in Britain and online indiscretions regularly feature in accounts of how police and prosecutors secure convictions.

The new training, which will be available starting in January of next year, will also include information on how to gather clues from computers, cell phones and other electronic devices.

Kilmer slashes sale price for ranch by $10M

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:41:00 +0000

SANTA FE, N.M. – Actor Val Kilmer has dropped the asking price of his Pecos River Ranch by $10 million.

The 5,328-acre ranch includes a 10-bedroom, 10-bathroom, 11,573-square-foot house. Located about 22 miles southeast of Santa Fe, it went on the market in early 2009 for $33 million, but a Craigslist ad last week lowered the price to $23 million.

Neither Darlene Streit of Santa Fe Realty Partners, who posted the new ad, nor ranch manger Pam Sawyer responded to messages from The Santa Fe New Mexican asking about the price cut.

Real estate agents say the market for high-end ranches, like other housing, remains soft.

The advertisement describes the ranch as having two miles of direct frontage on the Pecos River and phenomenal fishing.

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Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican, http://www.sfnewmexican.com