You know the media world has definitively changed when the local daily newspaper announces its hosting a social media conference.
The Charlotte Observer will host their day-long conference on Jan. 23 at Queens University:
Throughout the day, you’ll hear from some of the most forward-thinking social media gurus in the region, including Jeff Elder, Lisa Hoffman, Crystal [...]
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Charlotte O’s social media conference
Kutcher: Calling someone ‘gay,’ ‘fag’ as bad as ‘n-word’
The Southern Voice reports:
Actor Ashton Kutcher took to Twitter this afternoon to tweet his disgust at people who use “gay” and “fag” as insults.
In typical Twitter style, where capitalization and punctuation are optional, Kutcher wrote: “can we just get clear, calling some one ‘gay’ or ‘fag’ is as derogatory as calling someone a ‘nigger’. U [...]
Activist doesn’t like ‘eSpin’ Founding Father make out comment
An activist and former member of the Soulforce Equality Ride 2008 is claiming homophobia on the part of social networking site eSpin.
[Ed. Note -- I have been involved in several Soulforce activities.]
A friend of activist Zak Rittenhouse of Lynchburg, Va., wrote eSpin administrators after “spinning the bottle” on the site and receiving this response:
55 dudes [...]
