Egyptians have completed their second day of voting in the historic elections with little reported incidents. Millions voted over two days in the first round of polling, which is expected to elect the country’s first civilian leader after nearly six decades of military backed dictatorship. Egyptians took to Twitter and other social platforms to document the landmark vote, which comes more than a year after a revolution toppled long-time leader Hosni Mubarak. Wall Street Journal Social Media Editor Neal Mann recaps the historic event as it played out on the Web: [View the story "Egyptian Elections" on Storify] Continue reading →
Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, is sending a 'powerful message' over racism. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Racist abuse will become a sackable offence for professional footballers next season, as part of significant changes being made to every Premier League and Football League player's contract.Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, is behind the proposal that he hopes will send out a powerful message on the back of a season when racism on the pitch made an unwelcome return to English football.Taylor told the Guardian that he believes the change in the standard players' contract will highlight how seriously the PFA views racism, and remove any ambiguity about the possible consequences for anyone found guilty of ... Continue reading →
There are two certainties in life—death and taxes—so perhaps it should come as no surprise that an entrepreneur has tried to build a social network for dead people. James Norris, CEO of London-based DeadSocial, has launched a free service that allows people to continue to tweet and post to Facebook after they die. You can, almost literally, tweet from beyond the grave. Mr. Norris got the idea, he said watching the British comedian Bob Monkhouse, an unlikely muse, in an interview he filmed before his death from cancer in 2003 and broadcast after he died. “He created a video to be shown four years after his death. It was incredibly powerful,” said Mr. Norris. The U.K. Labor Party strategist Philip Gould likewise made a deeply ... Continue reading →
