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Cyber culture, social media and Web ?.0 are all themes which describe what this blog is about. On occasion there will be potluck posts… enjoy.

Archive for April, 2007

Casual online games are about as fickle and non-committal as you get. From the casual standard, solitaire, to the 1000’s of flash games featuring fuzzy little critters on sites like Neopets, what makes these type of games so alluring is their stupid simplicity and the advance assurance that there is no way you’lll ever fall […]

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The Online Hunt for the VA Tech Killer?…

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Bloggers shoot high, and they either hit. Or miss… wildly.
For the last 3 hours I’ve been trolling the web trying to debunk or confirm whether this VA Tech alumni was indeed the now dead culprit of today’s VA Tech shooting spree.

Of course all those guns and the fact that his Facebook listed him as an […]

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With VA Tech students huddled in their dorms as the shootings persisted, it appears some students took to forming groups in support of the early victims and their families. Fellow university students from across the nation have written in with wall posts.
It’s fascinating to watch this type of online activity happen almost instantaneously. The real […]

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Readers are undoubtedly linking to CNN and Google News right now to find out more about the details.

A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech today, killing 21 people. Of course my condolences go out to all the family members of the student victims.
I’m watching CNN right now, and (without […]

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This goes beyond live streaming video. That’s why it’s called a lifecast. Or at least that’s the term dubbed by Justin Kan, a recent Yale Grad who despite the seemingly frat boy spring break nature of his idea (expose your life 24/7! Then get trashed!) has a pretty interesting project with Justin.tv.

Justin was actually behind […]

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