Category Archives: Chapter 10

Jeremy Lin – Can race-based humor not be racist?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by admin

A blog by sudden NBA star Jeremy Lin as a 15-year-old has grabbed online attention today.  There’s several things interesting about it. According to sports blog Deadspin, Lin’s teenage blog was under the address: chiNkBaLLa88.xanga.com.  (You can follow the link, but … Continue reading →

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Cool Things From My Tumblr

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

I have a Tumblr blog where I post things that amuse me.  Here’s a few recent posts that deal with the media world: The crowd sourced version of Star Wars Taken from a huge number of fan-produced films, recreating the … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 3 – “I’m Feeling Lucky” author Douglas Edwards talks about working for Google

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin

Some interesting talk from Google employee #59 and the author of the book I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

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Hitler Finds Out About SOPA Take Down of his Lady GaGa Page

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin

To learn more about how the SOPA and PIPA bills before the US House and Senate would shut down the Web as we know it to protect Big Media, follow these links: Electronic Freedom Foundation’s one-page guide to SOPA EFF … Continue reading →

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iPhone announced 5 years ago

Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin

Here’s what I had to say five years ago this week when Apple announced the iPhone.  How’s it hold up?  (For the record, it took me almost 5 years for me to actually get an iPhone.  But this was more … Continue reading →

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A New Year in the Media World

Posted on January 2, 2012 by admin

A few thoughts from across the Interwebs on the new year: Will election year politics cause you to unfriend old friends from Facebook? I don’t know about unfriending, but I’ve been known to hide posts…. HT Romenesko. No flying cars … Continue reading →

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Girl Walk – Girl Talk’s All Day: The Movie

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin

No time today for a real blog entry.  But for those of you who are fans of mashup artist Girl Talk, there is a now a fascinating dance film out that is essentially a 71-minute long video for Girl Talk’s … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin

Are aggressive kids more likely to play violent video games? Study says not so much.  Some interesting findings. Is it really a World Wide Web? Well, 25 percent of Europeans have yet to be online. Here’s a link to the … Continue reading →

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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Reporters Praised for Coverage of Shootings

Posted on December 9, 2011 by admin

There can be no doubt that student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country of Thursday’s shooting deaths of the VT campus.  As I wrote on this blog yesterday, the paper’s staff did an … Continue reading →

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Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened.  People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading →

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