Tag Archives: Journalism

Balloon Boy Hysteria: Takeaways From Twitter’s OJ Moment

By John Furnari | Published: October 15, 2009
At around 2pm today Twitter erupted with an overwhelming output of messages related to 6-year old Falcon Heene, who at the time was believed to be traveling across Colorado trapped in a makeshift flying balloon.  All at once, #balloonboy, Balloon Boy, and #saveballoonboy were dominant trending topics on the micro-blogging platform. The incident itself was reminiscent [...]
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

By Greg Cargill | Published: March 5, 2009
The social web is a great distraction; it is pleasurable to spend time on and a devastating waste of time. That being the case, it does offer people the chance to understand devastation in a pleasing way: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. Share and Enjoy:
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Just Being Social

By Greg Cargill | Published: February 24, 2009
Sometimes it is so much easier to provide something valuable by sharing instead of creating. I read these articles on Sunday. Okay, I skimmed all of these and other articles on Sunday and emailed these to myself to read later. They all have something valuable to offer and this was the best way I could think [...]
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Returning freedom to the internet

By Greg Cargill | Published: November 2, 2008
Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents This post is a couple of days late. I have been reading about this since it happened during this past week but didn’t get the chance to put something up until now. Basically, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), what we know as the “the patent [...]
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Where Web 2.0 Started

By Greg Cargill | Published: October 30, 2008
“If you’re wondering whom to thank for the Web 2.0 explosion in interactive websites, consider sending a bouquet to Congress. Today’s internet is largely an outgrowth of the much-reviled Digital Millennium Copyright Act that lawmakers passed in 1998, and President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday.” 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA is [...]
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