Tag: POLITICIANS

When they're not busy making our world a better place, most state politicians spend their time reaching out to the voters who elected them, and promoting their agendas to the public. Instead of stumping at school gymnasiums or shooting TV commercials, though, many state governors have begun flocking to YouTube -- albeit with mixed results. According to USA Today, at least 38 governors ...

Considering how notoriously image-conscious they are, you'd think most high-level politicians would've secured their own online domain names a long time ago. A recent survey from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), however, finds that many lawmakers still aren't doing enough to protect their own names from online desecration. As the New York Times reports, only about half of all ...

The iPad has only been in circulation for a couple of months, but the device has already fallen prey to a major cyber attack, thanks to a gap in AT&T's security system. According to Gawker, a group of hackers recently succeeded in exploiting a security hole in AT&T's website, and walked away with the e-mails and ID numbers of over 114,000 iPad users. The list of those targeted by the ...

Share He may have been the first president of the new millennium, but it wasn't till now that George Bush (or Dubya, as both friends and detractors like to call him) truly joined the modern era by signing up for Facebook. There's nothing terribly interesting going on there, but if you're so inclined, you can go "like" the page of our 43rd president. ...

Ivo Josipovic, the new president of Croatia, has a problem. And no, it's not being the president of Croatia, smarty pants. Josipovic's popularity at the polls has translated into near celebrity on the Web. He has already hit the 5,000 friend limit imposed by Facebook, and still has another 7,000 requests waiting to be accepted. "I don't know how we'll work that out," he told Reuters. That ...

The question on everyone's mind is has Barack Obama given up on Twitter? Okay, not everyone's mind, maybe, but we're sure someone besides ourselves and Paul Boutin at the New York Times is wondering. Our first tech-enabled president, who built so much of his support using tools like Twitter, has seemingly disappeared from the service. Since joining Twitter in April of 2007, Obama, or at least ...

Politicians are notoriously antiseptic characters (at least in public), so it was a shock when we found out that Daisy Tourne, Interior Minister of Uruguay, had posted a picture of herself in the shower on her Facebook page. The picture alone is enough to make headlines, but it gets better. The caption below the picture elegantly states "there is nothing more natural than a woman in a shower." ...