Journalist covering politics and technology policy for Mashable. Also shooting pictures.
Starting today, you’ll be able to connect your [CNN] iReport and Facebook accounts in a way that will give you more control and make it easier to share your iReport posts (and your comments too!) on Facebook.
(Source: CNN)
The U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, was operating under a lower security standard than a typical consulate when it was attacked this month, according to State Department officials.
Lessons learned: Slow down.
In which Wolf Blitzer, of all people, schools Donald Trump on the air over his position on birtherism. An excerpt:
WB: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
DT: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.
WB: Here’s the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where theHonolulu Star-Bulletin and the Advertiser contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in Hawaii?
DT: Many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something done by many people even though they weren’t born in the country. You know and I know it.
Trump hosts a fundraiser for Mitt Romney tonight in Las Vegas.
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Long done with this issue, admittedly, but there’s a great laugh-out-loud moment six minutes in where Wolf asks Trump what “his people” found about Obama’s birth certificate back in April of last year — he claimed to Meredith Viera that his people “cannot believe what they’re finding” about Obama’s birth certificate. “We don’t have to go into OLD NEWS,” Trump says. “That’s old news.”
(Source: thedailywhat)
CNN International had me on Friday to talk about social media and the 2012 elections. I’ll post video once I’ve got it.