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Will Radioactive Fear-Fomenting Continue This Week on CNN?
TweetIt’s pouring in Los Angeles right now and if you kept an eye on the news last week you’d be excused for worrying that exposure to said rain might give you cancer. “Miniscule” amounts of radiation hit the West Coast … Continue reading
BP Oil Spill: When Crisis Management is Compounded by Social Media
It’s bewildering to look back on these events today with much the same sense of disbelief and anger that the general public was left with. But the reality of 2011 is that there will continue to be horrible events perpetrated by humans that have no known solution or remedy. The pace of technological advancement will always outpace the checks and controls against it. Humans tend to slough off the consequences out of excitement and greed made possible by new technology. The BP Oil Spill of 2010 was one of those situations in which “what’s the worst that can happen?” happened. Continue reading
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Tagged annenberg, bp, communications, crisis management, journalism, lecture, media, news, oil spill, oilspill, presentation, social media, usc
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Video: Artist Cole Sternberg on His ‘The Content is Bleeding Through’ Installation
The 24-hour newscycle, gossip media, and technology such as Twitter has brought the future into our laps and shirt-pockets. Cole calls this a “vision for this apocalyptic moment when media and technology have pushed us so far that all the content blurs together.” Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, video
Tagged art, artist, cnn, cole sternberg, content, gossip, hollywood, installation, interview, media, news, perez hilton, technology, tmz, video
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Interview: Dermot McCormack, EVP Digital Media, MTV Networks @ CES 2011
Can MTV.com do what many have tried (and failed) to do over the past decade-and-a-half — become the MTV of the internet? MTV Networks’ head of digital media told us that’s exactly what he’s set out to do in 2011. Continue reading
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Tagged android, apple, apps, blackberry, ces, dermot mccormack, electronics, interview, ipad, iphone, jersey shore, lady gaga, media, mobile, mtv, music meter, musica, tablets, tech, vh1, video
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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2010
TweetBorrowed from one of my fave sites, flowingdata.com 10. Asteroid Discovery Scott Manley of the Armagh Observatory visualized 30 years of asteroid discoveries. It’s a straightforward animation that shows planets and asteroids orbiting the sun, with waves of twinkles as … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, data, inspiration, journalism, mapping, maps, media, visualization
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