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The Oscars on Social Media: International Audiences Yawn, US Bloggers Snark

by David | Feb 26, 2012 | new media, television

Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such luck. Meanwhile, the rest of the world didn’t seem too interested...

A Social Media Milestone: A Crowdsourced State of the Union Address?

by David | Jan 24, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media

The Teleprompter is Us Tonight’s State of the Union address is being billed as “the most interactive political act ever.” Well, other than the crowdsourcing that brought people to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Although, if you read...

Moran Cerf, Madonna, and the Mass Media Reality-Distortion Field

by David | Sep 13, 2011 | Amusing Nonsense

Moran Cerf describes his “Liberty Valance” moment on KCRW’s UnFictional I’ve already posted this to my Facebook profile, but the story put a hook into me, and deserves a more thorough reaction, comment & perhaps clarification. This story...

Mindshare LA: “The Illusion of Free Will”

by David | Jan 25, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Online Video

No. this isn’t about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject). This is an intro to a...

For All the Frustrated, Passive-Aggressive IT Dweebs Out There…

by The Wordyeti | Jun 28, 2008 | Uncategorized

…the makers of this YouTube hit video (it just got Fark’d and Arrington’d) are now your patron saints. This little NSFW gem will bring a rueful (vindictive?) smile to anyone who’s had to deal with dim-bulb non-techies who can’t articulate...
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