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Democrats are hoping they’ve found a secret weapon for winning back the House in 2012: Twitter. (more)

To say that 14 Wisconsin Democrats are “on the lam” in Illinois is an understatement. Relentlessly hounded by Illinois Tea Party members, they are, truly, on the run. (more)

Facebook was home to Congress at noon on Wednesday, January 5th, for the swearing in of the 112th session. A tab on the Republicans’ “Pledge to America” Facebook page hosted an embedded video player provided by Livestream. It showed that Congress still can’t seem to run on time — by the time the clock ran out, more than 25 members were yet to vote. (more)

An Indiana woman last night allegedly stabbed her boyfriend with a kitchen knife after he would not allow her to view his Facebook page, according to cops. (more)

Now that we have Skype and Facebook chat and email and teleconferencing and AOL Instant Messenger, what is the point of actually having a workplace? Why not work wherever we happen to be and, when and if others need us, beam in our eyes and ears? Because according to a new study from Harvard Medical School, when we collaborate remotely, our work may have less of an impact. (more)

Top House Democrats struggled Wednesday to find legal avenues by which the United States could prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying the Espionage Act’s antiquated and sweeping language distorts several key differences involving sensitive material, rendering it toothless in the Internet age. (more)

Many puns have been made on the rather humorless WikiLeaks scandal, but perhaps the most amusing response to the situation is a new Pakistani feminine product advertisement that compares the United States government to a sanitary pad. (more)

UPDATE: Julian Assange has been granted bail, set at $308,000. Prosecutors are appealing but if bail goes through, Assange must also surrender his passport, has a curfew and wear a tracker, according to The Guardian. (more)

GENEVA – The Swiss postal system stripped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool Monday, accusing him of lying and immediately shutting down one of his bank accounts. (more)

American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistleblowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down: the Russian government. (more)

WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats. (more)

Remember when the only way to meet your significant other was through a blind date or an awkward introduction at your friend’s favorite dive bar? Well, times have changed in the social media driven world that we live in, especially with the presence of online dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony.com. (more)

Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture, plans to open its digital storefront early next year. But you won’t be able to shop there if you’ve got an iPad. (more)

It looks like Twitter has just hired its first government liaison. New Twitter employee Katie Jacobs Stanton just Tweeted that Adam Sharp will be joining the company to help the “government better communicate with constituents.” Sharp confirmed his employment as well. (more)

It might not be getting a lot of late-night attention by the major TV or online news organizations, but the mayhem surrounding the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory is burning up Twitter, Facebook, Twitpic and Flickr. It even has a mayor on Foursquare. (more)

YouTube founder Chad Hurley has decided to end his day-to-day involvement in the development of the platform. (more)

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson uses strikingly similar material in two separate video campaign advertisements — which accuse lots of people (and corporations) of being liars. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — Online advertising offers marketers the chance to aim ads at very specific groups of people — say, golf players in Illinois who make more than $150,000 a year and vacation in Hawaii. (more)

The newest iteration of Skype’s free communications software, unveiled Thursday, includes many enhancements and additions, including the integration of Facebook News Feed and Phonebook, allowing users to interact with Facebook friends directly from Skype. (more)

If ever there was a time to use the #OHNOTHEYDIDNT hashtag on twitter, this is it.  Victoria’s Secret has introduced a line of Halloween costumes, at last, called the ‘Sexy Little Fantasies’ collection.  They are everything you’d ever want them to be, and more. (more)