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Allen West Votes to Let Potential Employers Root Around in Your Facebook

​There's been all manner of hullaballoo the past week or so about reports that an increasing number of employers have been asking job applicants to hand over their social media log-in information as part of the job application process -- if you want the job, you have to show them what you're up to ... More >>

Duffy's Hosts Million Dollar March Madness Sweepstakes

​Duffy's is offering $1,000,000 for the person who can pick a perfect bracket for March Madness, the company's most aggressive social media  campaign yet to direct traffic to the chain's Facebook page. "Everyone's doing social media," said John Smith, Director of Sports Marketing for the comp ... More >>

Buzz Bake Sale 2011 Ticket Giveaway!

​The mighty Buzz Bake Sale's 16th running is upon us this Saturday at Cruzan Amphitheatre. Staind, Seether, and Chevelle (featured in a fine story penned by our own Matt Hendley) ride atop the rock-heavy lineup for the daylong festival put on by 103.1 the Buzz. And, if you're hungering for more of ... More >>

Naked Jogger Stopped by Cops in West Palm Beach; Unfortunately, There Are Pictures

via Twitter user toughguy1967​Sometimes the Twitter universe finds the news before we do -- like the handful of people who happened to witness an elderly gentlemen allegedly jogging naked down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach police spokesman Chase Scott tells the Pulp t ... More >>

Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch Photos From 36,000 Feet

via Twitter user ChadGraff​There might not be much sightseeing from the window seat of a commercial airplane between Baltimore and Fort Lauderdale, except for maybe a rocket going into space next to your plane.The Huffington Post reports these pictures of the space shuttle Atlantis launch were ... More >>

Allen West Joins the Twitter-Gaffe Train -- Retweets Gay-Themed Band, Blames Intern

Allen West: Scissor Sisters fan?​Just to be clear, nothing about Allen West's Twitter gaffe involves the congressman's wiener.It does, however, come at a time when members of Congress should be careful about how they're using Twitter. But if you're not careful, blame it on the intern.About two ... More >>

Update: The Man Behind the Fake Rick Scott Account

Nope, definitely no resemblance between Joel Kodner and Rick Scott.Update 3/11: The fake Rick Scott account (@FLGovRickScott) has been suspended by Twitter with no reason given. Joel Kodner is currently appealing the suspension.On January 20, new Gov. Rick Scott decided he was going to answer politi ... More >>

Underground Dining Groups: Q&A With Maude Eaton of South Florida Foodies

​It's safe to say that South Florida has come a long way in the food world. So far, in fact, that we've left behind the old ideas of nouveau cuisine, power lunches, and Norman Van Aken and embraced the new ideas of food sovereignty, food blogs, and the almighty South Beach Wine & Food Festival ... More >>

The Facebook Page of Egypt's Protesters

Facebook.comKhaled Said, whom police beat to death.​As the Obama administration calls for an incremental transition of power in Eqypt and South Florida protesters join the rallying cry to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak, it's becoming more and more difficult to understand what ordinary Egyptians ... More >>

Fake Rick Scott Versus Real Rick Scott: Both Jackasses?

Medicare fraud, schmedicare fraud!​We've been spouting our concerns about our new governor, Rick Scott, since long before he was elected. The man was behind a giant Medicare fraud case. But it just goes to prove that even when you're scheming to bilk money from unsuspecting citizens, Floridians wi ... More >>

Commenters, We Have a Fun Surprise

To our loyal commenters,We're sorry to inform you that we're attempting to make your life easier. We also apologize for having to cut short the fun you all had with the Captcha system. We're also sorry that you will no longer have to endlessly string together letters to prove to us that you aren't a ... More >>

Hate TSA Body Scans? Homeland Security Is Also Monitoring Your Tweets

All this, and they're monitoring Twitter?​If you thought intrusive body scans and airport pat downs were just a fluke in the War on Terror bureaucracy, fear not: The Department of Homeland Security has plenty of other programs that will make your skin crawl.For instance, Big Brother is reading you ... More >>

Meals on Wheels: The Food Truck Phenomenon Sweeps South Florida

All this, and they're monitoring Twitter?​If you thought intrusive body scans and airport pat downs were just a fluke in the War on Terror bureaucracy, fear not: The Department of Homeland Security has plenty of other programs that will make your skin crawl.For instance, Big Brother is reading you ... More >>

UPDATED: Schools Threat Suspect Is Green Party Member

The woman charged by the FBI with making a threat that led to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools after hearing the words of right-wing talker Joyce Kaufman isn't a member of the Tea Party -- she's a member of the Green Party. Ellisa Martinez was arrested yesterday for ma ... More >>

Meet and Tweet

The woman charged by the FBI with making a threat that led to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools after hearing the words of right-wing talker Joyce Kaufman isn't a member of the Tea Party -- she's a member of the Green Party. Ellisa Martinez was arrested yesterday for ma ... More >>

Latin Burger Making Rare Broward Stop Today

Photo by Flickr user Wok Star​If you're in Fort Lauderdale and looking for lunch plans, think the car wash, where Latin Burger is making a rare Broward County stop today. Specifically the Ultimate Car Wash at 321 S Federal Highway.That's according to Latin Burger's Facebook page, where the Miami-b ... More >>

Getting Press Coverage in 140 Characters or Less

​​Evan Sneider, a freelance P.R. professional and full-time public relations manager for a technology based company in Aventura, says you can end up killing any chance of press coverage if you go about it the wrong way on Twitter. Evan lives here in Broward County and talked about some of t ... More >>

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

Are Florida Gang Members Using Twitter?

​A recent news story on The Business Insider got me thinking about something. If New York gang members are using Twitter to talk to one another and organize fights, robberies, etc. then could Florida gangsters be doing the same?Of course, Twitter has sub-cultures just like any other group ven ... More >>

Social Commerce and Online Porn: What They Can Learn From Each Other

​Social media and websites such as Facebook and YouTube are now the leading activity on the Internet for most of the U.S. and Europe. What's interesting is that while the social networking sites are growing exponentially, the commerce that attempts to take advantage of them doesn't seem to be near ... More >>

What Is a Social Media Expert Anyway?

There is nothing magical to social media​Five minutes looking at marketing information on the internet or attending any tech conference will tell you that the latest craze in "instant gurus" is to title yourself a "social media expert." Anyone can do it. Just start using the term and vaguely talki ... More >>

TechSqueeze: SheBlogs Shows That Girls Have All the Fun

SheBlogs.org founder Julie Wohlberg.A new startup in West Palm Beach is hoping to combine the more traditional public relations sector with the new media niche of women who blog. There are a lot of them, and they are likely more active than most of their male counterparts, some studies might suggest ... More >>

TechSqueeze: The Boca Chief's Use of Social Media and Outreach

​One of the exciting things about living in a tech-centric area like South Florida amid the social media revolution happening online is how it connects locals. The internet is a global phenomenon connecting millions of people every minute, no matter their location on the planet. What's really amaz ... More >>

TechSqueeze: Florida's Venture Capital Bid and IT Unemployment

That's a shocker!​This year, I attended the LaidOffCamp event in Miami. A truly tech event, it was started in a pretty ad-hoc way through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. It's since grown into a truly worldwide event in which IT people of all shapes and skills come together to ne ... More >>

And You Thought Twitter Was Worthless: Buy-One-Get-One Tickets to the Miami International Wine Fair

​When Facebook started gobbling up MySpace users, you were one of the first to jump ship. These days, your Twitter account has hundreds of followers and you update your status bi-hourly (4 minutes ago: I remembered why I used to love Captain Crunch so much as a kid). Well now all that social netwo ... More >>

Tweet Tweet: Sun-Sentinel Getting Social

New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper's management lexicon gets a fairly new title: "Social Media Coordinator." It's all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here's the memo:     Several weeks ago, Seth Liss ... More >>

Photo of the Week: Pompano Beach

Photo by Flickr user Prince David of the South; shot on March 29, 2009 Photographer's Flickr stream can be found here.

Catholic School to Go Public

St. Stephen Catholic School in Miramar will close at the end of the school year and the space will be taken over by a public charter school this fall, according to Sister Mary David Magee, the school's principal.   On St. Stephen's Facebook page (Sorry, no link. You'll have to log onto your own ... More >>

Gelber Will Totally Tweet the Legislative Session

Photo by Tracy RussoGelber will be your Twitter friend.Oh, it is a great day to be a Florida wonk! State Sen. Dan Gelber, vying to become U.S. Sen. Dan Gelber in 2010, has announced via blog that he'll be giving updates on the coming legislative session via Twitter, right here.Most of you know that ... More >>

Pembroke Pines "Cyberbully" Makes News in Big Apple

I'm protected by the First Amendment!Remember Katherine Evans, the Pembroke Pines high school senior who got branded a "cyberbully" after she made a Facebook post about how her teacher Ms. Phelps was The Worst? The New York Times caught up with Evans at the University of Florida and published this s ... More >>

Lauderdale Votes for Non-Obama Candidates, Democracy Ignored in Non-Twitter Format

Voters in Fort Lauderdale will elect a mayor and an entire city council today, while over in Fort Myers, President Obama is speaking. Approximately four dozen or so Fort Lauderdale residents are expected to turn temporarily away from their Twitter accounts to vote, and, oh, over on the west coast, t ... More >>

Anna Nicole's Ghost Appears on TV, West Palm Company Starts El Facebook

A couple of years after her death in Hollywood, Anna Nicole Smith was back recently. She spoke from the grave to kinda famous medium Mary Occhino. The psychic says she was surfing Mary has a psychic TV.around on her TV when she was told to stop on one channel, like some cosmic hand that came down an ... More >>

Anna Nicole Raid Scares Methadone-Using Gamblers, Friendless Condoleezza Rice 'Glad it's Over'

The Drug Enforcement Agency, as part of the investigation into Anna Nicole Smith's death at the Anna Nicole didn't just endorse methadone.Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, conducted another raid on her doctor's office recently. Dr. Sandeep Kapoor reportedly wrote prescriptions for methadone to ... More >>

E-40 to Perform At Sobe Live Tonight, First 200 in Free

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

The Chronicles of I Set My Friends on Fire, Episode 1

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

The Vagabond Shut Down For the Weekend UPDATED

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

Beto Cuevas Announced as Special Surprise Guest at Tonight's Myspace Latino "Show Secreto"

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

Tego Calderon

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

OneRepublic

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

King Britt: Full Q&A

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

King Britt: Full Q&A

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

In Rainbows leads to a Digital Pot of Gold

Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>

Outgrowing Tom

Bugged by MySpace's clutter and limitations, some musicians turn to smaller, artist-friendly alternatives

MySpace Secret Show: Marley Bros.

Bugged by MySpace's clutter and limitations, some musicians turn to smaller, artist-friendly alternatives

Christina's Still Got It

A desperate letter from a die-hard fan

The Canucks Are Coming

Vincent Black Shadow

The Queen Batch

Vincent Black Shadow

Various Artists

Snakes on a Plane: The Album (Decaydance/New Line)

Stop the Internets!

The Sun-Sentinel was quick to back a high school's online witch-hunt