He should stick to politics – how quickly they forget! It wasn’t traditional media in the US that put Barack Obama in office, if I’m not mistaken:

Mr. Obama said he noted the trend. “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” the President said.”What I hope is that people start understanding if you’re getting your newspaper over the Internet, that’s not free and there’s got to be a way to find a business model that supports that.”

Pfft. Maybe it has to do with the fact that bloggers are starting to take on the role that journalists also do, which is undercover investigations – and it didn’t go well for Obama: barack Obama

Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign has been in full damage control mode since the senator’s blunt remarks about the nature of small town Pennsylvania voters were secretly recorded by a Huffington Post blogger at a recent San Francisco fundraiser that was supposed to be off limits to the press. Read more

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Bit of a silly article from The Times: Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life Can online friendships ruin real-life relationships? Some users of a very popular social networking site believe so – and that’s why they’re taking drastic action, says Emma Justice Stephanie Painter’s death was swift and painless. At 9.10pm on February 11 she bid her 121 Facebook friends goodbye with one last “poke” (mood: sorrowful), then left the virtual world peacefully with a quick click of the mouse. “It was hard to kill the profile I’d spent so long creating, but I felt it was the Continue Reading…

 

I need an excuse to show you that very funny clip (hat tip: Lee Hopkins). So here goes: Penn Masala are an a capella group from University of Pennsylvania. I like the fact that they took a Brand (Facebook) and an associated Topical Point (stalking online) and wrote a song, scripted, acted, directed and edited a video and then became their own marketing channel (YouTube). 10-15 years ago, how would a University choir have done it? If they could’ve talked the creative arts department into helping out, how would the audio/video have been distributed? If a University Choir gets hold Continue Reading…

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I wish SilkCharm would go out and get a job and support me. I feel like her real life avatar some days – you have no idea how much it costs to clothe and feed that little bundle of pixels. Heh. : Web Content manager & social researcher (MyCyberTwin) I am looking for someone talented and articulate to be a content writer, part of our web social psychology research team, and work alongside the female CEO as a PA for part of the time. Do you love to write, to read, and to think? Are you fascinated by the human Continue Reading…

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