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. The idea, while somewhat complex boils down to the fact that The Hourly Press is powered by attention and relies on organic networking activity rather than direct action such as a ‘like’ or ‘digg’. (more…)

A contest called Hot Chicks Eating Burgers by Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, American fast-food chains, is not hiding the fact it’s using sex to sell its burgers. The contest website has a number of videos showing
scantily clad woman eating burgers and seductively encouraging other women or men to submit videos of “hot chicks” eating one of the two franchise’s burgers.

People wanting to enter the contest simply upload their videos to YouTube and title it Hot Chicks Eating Burgers. The only rules to this competition are the video must be no longer than 30 seconds and the girl must say what her favourite burger is. The winner will win a trip for two to Las Vegas and $1,000 spending money with the opportunity to be in a Hardee’s or Carl’s Jr. commercial. The contest runs until August 2 but for a video to qualify it has to be submitted before July 12. (more…)

Two American environmental companies, Brighter Planet and 1Sky, have launched a contest that combines two of the hottest topics in the media today: climate change and American politics.

The contest, entitled “The Climate Matters: Inspire Your Next President Video” asks entrants to upload a 30 or 60 second video to www.vimeo.com that will inspire political action on the issues of climate change. (more…)