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How to hijack popular brands on Pinterest for free publicity

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Teens react to Honey Boo Boo Child

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Conservative blogger impersonates Michelle Obama on Pinterest

The Cosmopolitan Conservative, Adrienne Rover, mocks the First Lady with snarky and unbecoming pins. 

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How to hijack popular brands on Pinterest for free publicity

Through a kink in Pinterest's collaboration option, it's easy to make inactive celebrities and brands appear to endorse your pinboards. 

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Pinterest gets political with Mitt Romney pinboards

Forget the parodies: Pinterest users are now providing visual commentary on the GOP candidate's campaign lifestyle.

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Why Pinterest is addicting for everyone

Critics may have pegged Pinterest as "Facebook for Women," but the photo-sharing network truly takes all kinds. 

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Tumblr blogger gets front row seat at Fashion Week—at least for a time

Alex Maier had the time of his life covering Fashion Week for Tumblr. And he wasn't picked for his fashion sense.

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Researchers strive to understand brony culture

Just as anthropologists visit lands to discover new peoples, two researchers are delving into the Internet to understand the ways of bronies, adult devotees of My Little Pony.

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Pinterest caps captions at 500 characters

The change, per one popular petition, will prevent users from posting entire tutorials or recipes.

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Are you breaking the law on Pinterest?

While Pinterest encourages users to link and attribute pins, that may not be enough to avoid copyright issues. 

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Pinterest fesses up about affiliate links

Ben Silbermann, Pinterest's hard-to-find CEO, called a blogger who discovered the site was adding sneaky links to make money—and said the site had stopped the practice.

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How to make show-stopping pinboards with an image-slicing hack

Jonathan Levy used a simple image-slicing hack to creatively announce his engagement on Pinterest. Here's how he did it.  

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Take a guided tour of LiveJournal's headquarters

Community leader Brenden Delzer shows off the postcards that remind him of LiveJournal's diversity. 

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The magic behind The Composites—how one man brought your favorite literary figures onto the screen

Brian Joseph Davis, the Brooklynite behind The Composites Tumblr explains how he decided to transform literary characters into composite sketches.

 

 

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Why Pinterest is growing so fast

New users stick with the online image board.

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Vagina Pagina: LiveJournal's sex ed for grownups

Vagina Pagina, which deals with sexual health, is one of LiveJournal's breakout communities.

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LiveJournal announces LJ Media

Does your LiveJournal community need a makeover? LJ Media is now here to help.

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Even Pinterest isn't free of pointless flame wars

On a site devoted to pretty pictures, an animal-rights argument stirs the pot.

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Chef from Cooking with Dog in ICU

Fans of Cooking with Dog flocked to YouTube to wish Chef well after she was injured in a bicycle accident.

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Now you can pin porn

If pinning scenic views, favorite books, elegant furniture and fine eats isn't doing it for you, now you can go over to a place that is redefining pin-up girls. 

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Google set to destroy humor with new algorithm

If explaining a joke kills it, what happens when Google deploys new comedy algorithms on YouTube?

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Three easy ways to get a Pinterest invite

Pinterest might still be invite-only, but that doesn't mean its an exclusive community. Here's how to quickly join. 

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Romney takes down Pinterest parody account

What's more alarming: That a presidential candidate requested Pinterest to "fix" a parody account with only 47 followers or that Pinterest complied?

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Meet The Composites

Brian Joseph Davis turns characters from fiction into police-suspect sketches.

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Fateful encounters: French student takes anime cut-out on vacation

Fabrice Requin is currently touring Asia—and blogging the results—with his ideal companion: Holo, the anime character from Spice and Wolf.

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Cat Fancy isn't purring over namesake parody account

Cat Fancy Editor Susan Logan wants to take the Twitter parody account @Cat_Fancy out with the kitty litter.

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Talk about Pinterest on pinchat

Kelly Lieberman offers a way for avid pinners—and others—to discuss their new favorte obsession via Twitter.