“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner “We will write our own future, and the future will be what we want it to be.” – Barack Obama In a quiet and seemingly innocuous gesture, President Obama has designated 9/11 as “The National Day of Service and Remembrance.” Personally, I liked the ring of “Patriot Day,” and what does “service and remembrance” mean, precisely ? The idea is to get Americans to “engage in meaningful service to create change…in four key areas”:

The Huffington Post , the news source that keeps getting more social is now looking to its Twitter followers to help write better headlines. Announced earlier yesterday via the microblogging site, would-be journalists can help prevent the publication of bad headlines. First tweeted by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, the idea is based on The Hourly Press’ News about News as an example of an entirely Twitter aggregated publication.

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