The Atlantic describes “Far Cry 3″ as the “First Video-Game About the Millennials.” John Walker, at rockpapershotgun.com, describes it more prosaically: “A group of wretched white rich kids arrive on an island for a holiday of self-indulgence and thrill-seeking, their fear of leaving adolescence exposed by their need to jump out of aeroplanes rather than […]
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Sandy Hook: a media feeding frenzy
Like everyone else’s, my heart is with the victims of Sandy Hook. Whatever else is said surrounding every conceivable side issue, this is the one thing on which I believe we can all agree – that this tragedy is first and foremost about the victims, the family and friends, the colleagues. Our sincere condolences and […]
Can somebody ‘splain to me how the heck Klout works?
I have a Klout account. If you don’t know about Klout, it’s basically a new, high-tech way of stroking your ego and keeping track of how important you are. And I am all about that. Problem is, I can’t figure out how it works. Oh, I get the basic concept: the more people like and follow […]
Let my people go
We have finally invented the internet. In current form, the internet allows for things like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the documenting of a tragic school building collapse in China. It reveals the terrible innards of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. This is a limited window of opportunity wherein information passes […]
Hey, Jets Overhead – pick me! And Ronan!
Jets Overhead has an interesting little social media promotion running. Upload a photo of you telling the world what you really want… If selected, your photo will then appear in the music video for “What You Really Want” which will premiere here in October 2012. GET STARTED On a sheet of paper, write down what […]
How digital is transforming politics: a special report from Mashable that's well worth a look
Unless you’ve been off-world for a few years, it’s not news that electronic media technologies are exerting a dramatic impact on our political sphere. However, being generally aware of the fact and having a more detailed understanding of the hows and whys, that’s another thing. Our good friend Josh Catone and his colleagues over at […]
Did Gateway Pundit just get Koch'ed up? Bill Gertz – White House Military Office hacked by China
Oh, how I love checking the news and finding a juicy headline so fresh that an hour hasn’t even elapsed since it first hit the Intertubes. I especially love it when I start with the first source I find and click through to their primary source only to find that it is a dead end […]
'The most irresponsible act of alleged journalism I've seen on Twitter'
When I was in journalism school back in the 1990s, there was a formula we learned that defined the reporting process: Gather, sort, report. We were taught to first gather all the information we needed for a story, then sort it (organize it, structure it, etc.), and then write the story or go on the […]
Do Not Track may hurt online campaigning
If you ever want a good laugh, I highly suggest looking through the Google Analytics of yourself, to see what advertisers think of you. For example, mine says that I’m an 18-24 year old woman interested in politics and pop culture. The ads I usually get are to buy new seasons of House on DVD, […]
A question for every reporter: Why are you there?
Professor Jeff Jarvis wrote a marvelous post recently questioning why reporters were in Tampa covering the Republican National Convention. The point was: What work are reporters doing there that justifies the expense of sending them there rather than using that money elsewhere in the newsroom? “We can see whatever we want to see on C-SPAN […]
Obama wins Twitter statfest. So what?
In the world of meaningless statistics (see many NBA, NFL, MLB, and other sports stats), TPM has emerged as a new faux arbiter of political reality. You don’t grok TPM? That’s “Tweets Per Minute,” knuckleheads. From @gov, Twitter’s government and politics team: A new record political moment on Twitter: @barackobama drives 52,757 Tweets per minute. […]
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