Posts Tagged ‘mahmoud ahmadinejad

Controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks is reporting that it’s under a “mass distributed denial of service attack” just as its much-hyped leak of secret embassy cables has been leaked early on Twitter. According to a tweet from the website’s official Twitter account, WikiLeaks is experiencing a DDoS attack. The reported attackers are not yet known. Several [...]

As 2009 comes to a close, it’s interesting to look back at what stories were the most popular, captivating and shared. Social widget AddThis has calculated the 15 most-shared articles from the sites that use its service. Before looking at the list, we probably could have guessed many of the most popular stories. However, the [...]

The Iranian election in June this year has been used as a key source of analysis for the comparison between social and traditional media in providing up-to-the-minute reporting on world events. The controversial presidential election held in Iran on June 12 this year saw incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad win a landslide victory, but the result was [...]

Often, the source of a statement means everything.  It might, for example, be more newsworthy if Gordon Brown labeled Americans "silly" than if (or when) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called us all evil pigs.  And Matt Cutts would just like everyone to know that one source of a study on advertising isn’t exactly Google’s best friend. This [...]


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