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Archive for the 'Digital Mob' Category

Myspace, Yourspace or Barackspace?

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Joe Anthony, former owner of Barack Obama’s unofficial Myspace page, is a disgruntled online campaign volunteer. Get used to them. In our age of decentralized political campaigns (thanks to the web) controlling and satisfying every facet of a campaign from meetups to Myspaces is simply impossible.
In the now widely reported incident Obama’s campaign staff closed […]

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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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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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Interview with Kevin Rose, Digg it?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

There are one too many puns I can play on the name of Digg. I won’t bother…
While visiting GDC (for the non-gaming crowd that would be “Game Developers’ Conference”) in San Francisco, I managed to stop by Digg offices for a chat with the founder of the company Kevin Rose. We hit on a number […]

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