Thomas Watkins

Google Plus Is Outpacing Twitter

businessinsider.com — When Google launched its social networking service, Google Plus, during the summer of 2011, tens of millions of people clamoured to sign up for an account. But within months, critics had panned the new service, pointing to user pages bereft of meaningful content and exchanges. They said the new social site just wasn't, well, social.

Google Plus Is Outpacing Twitter

businessinsider.com — When Google launched its social networking service, Google Plus, during the summer of 2011, tens of millions of people clamoured to sign up for an account. But within months, critics had panned the new service, pointing to user pages bereft of meaningful content and exchanges. They said the new social site just wasn't, well, social.

thomaswatkins: AP's Twitter account hacked ...

twitter.com — AP's Twitter account hacked re. explosions in the White House pic.twitter.com/OWgB7RSWgV

When pictures save lives

blogs.afp.com — By Marlowe Hood Sometimes a picture is worth a lot more than a thousand words. It happens all the time: an online or print newspaper publishes a photo of a child living in

Skeletons in the presidential garage

blogs.afp.com — Follow @Fort_Patrick By Patrick Fort They had hoped for hidden diamonds or maybe gold. But what looters in the house - rather, one of the houses - of recently deposed Central African Republic leader François Bozizé found were two skeletons underneath concrete slabs in the garage. Who were these two people?

The herbivore’s dilemma

blogs.afp.com — Follow @thomaswatkins By Thomas Watkins Not counting a few mouthfuls of ham sandwich prescribed to me by an insistent Chinese doctor fretting about my iron levels, I've been vegetarian since I was nine.