Estelle Getty, the feisty mother hen to the famous Golden Girls series that ran throughout the 80's (and continues in reruns today) died today at the age of 84. Getty was long a supporter of gay rights and had a...
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Sad news....I really love her in that show. RIP, Estelle. " Emmy-winning actress Estelle Getty, best known as a wise-cracking octogenarian on the popular 1980s and '90s sitcom "The Golden Girls," died on...
Reports on the possible joint venture of Getty Images and Flickr photos make all wonder on how to make money in social media " Making Money With Social Media: Getty Images Plans To Build Business On Flickr Photos...
When it comes to members of the mainstream news media and their penchant for making dire predictions about the economy, no one describes the phenomenon better than world-famous salesman and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar: “The media has accurately predicted ten of the...
This will be a substantial acquisition for whomever ends up acquiring Getty Images, at a projected price tag of more than $1.5 billion."Getty Images Inc, the world's biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block...
Update: An 11th-hour agreement allowed the bog news bureaus to transmit photos to media outlets around the world who are covering the Rugby World Cup- the agreement was reached just before Argentina and France took...
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" Researchers have long known New Yorkers walk faster than anyone else in the country. But epidemiologist Simonsick wondered, does walking speed affect health?She decided to conduct an experiment to find out. She and a group of scientists assembled 3,075...
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"Champ Cars Take Flight In Cleveland (Turn One video link at Source)
The long, flat airport taxiways and runways make for one of the most exciting driver skill contested venues for an open-wheel event in...
"After watching the U.K. Sailor news conference on TV this morning, I'm left with a tremendous feeling of speechlessness.
What I observed was, at best, a civilian response to a military situation and the world is...
"Why is it that Americans speak of trying to whip cancer, show courage in the face of it, and die after a long battle against it? Why at the same time do we tell ourselves cancer is the new diabetes, a chronic disease we can have for a lifetime?
It's because what F. Scott...
"Getty Images, which till recently was in talks to buy Jupitermedia (but the talks fell through) has done a small but high-profile acquisition: it has bought Scoopt, the Scottish startup which was a representation agency for citizen journalism pictures and videos, “an...
To me this totally speaks to the increasing demand for citizen-powered (or crowd sourced, if you will...) photo distribution. If this plan were to go through, Flickr could become a way for some folks to make a...
The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.
The streets of Toronto will be awash today with celebs attending its 31st International Film Festival. Here is a delicious opportunity for celeb-spotting and celeb-sharing on NowPublic. Keep your batteries charged in...