- @briansolis wrote a *must-read* post on @al_gore’s Web 2.0 keynote: Al Gore & the Social Revolution of Change (w/ pix) http://ping.fm/o7FoL #
- @tanjab http://twitpic.com/l143 – that’s literally a sweeping if not racist and likely 100% inaccurate headline #
- @michaelpilla 100% may be the result of an exit poll sample but is anything ever really 100%? Other #’s seem high too. what’re the REAL #’s? #
- @michaelpilla but this poll is not professional, it’s from LMU students trying out the “Racially Stratified Homogeneous Precinct Approach” #
- affligem noel at blue palms tweet-up with @darkknight247 @bushmanbill, others, talkin emo design, tasty beer #
- @michaelpilla @tanjab my disbelief stems not from the whatever++ percent in LA voted Obama, but that more than half of those voted Yes on 8. #
- @ev now you’re playing with power 😉 #
- @AndrewWarner say it ain’t so. what? and BitTorrent is the next Friendster? Buddy Chat ya later, holmes… #
- @NicoleJordan enjoy BKK and environs w/ @jackiepeters @gregarious and co. go straight to beach. Oh, and say hi to my roommate Greg 😉 #
- Palin will run in 2012 if its “God’s will.” Clearly there is no god in politics, and thats breaking, Wolf 😉 #
- cmon @barackobama, auto industry shouldn’t get a dime until it really steps up w/ better, greener, dareisay cooler cars. payoffstudentloans #
- Why Re-Tweet when you can ParaTweet (PT)? It’s just as deserving of attribution #
- Citi is sending me an AA companion ticket after I called requesting to close account after collecting miles #travelhacks #
- I just donated to IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against War) in honor of veterans and active soldiers at war. Felt good. Here’s why http://tr.im/D5p #
- way cooler than the GMail vid chat is the ability to translate RSS feeds on the fly in Google Reader. http://tr.im/1022 #
- yay. John Roderick (The Long Winters) will be joining @jonathancoulton and @hodgman at Echoplex tomorrow night! http://tinyurl.com/5j7hw3 #
- I’m such a sucker for @garyvee’s free shipping deals. + my original wristband is all worn out. Happy bday week @garyvee. Bring the thunder! #
- @Carolineoncrack re: “blogger parties” it’s the NEW new marketing for a broke-ass economy. but bloggers don’t HAVE to give good reviews 😉 #
- RT @LAist: County of Los Angeles Joins SF and Santa Clara Counties in Lawsuit Against Prop 8: http://is.gd/7d9G #
- @baratunde @TheOnion LOLZ I’d love to know how many people buy it. Can’t believe how much The NYTimes, Tribune are charging for old papers. #
- Why are so many .edu domains NOT no-www compliant? I’m looking at YOU: columbia.edu, uiowa.edu, indiana.edu Anyone know? seems a bit silly. #
- missed opportunity: great american steak & fry co. really shoulda sponsored this great american shakeout earthquake drill #
- in honor of the Great Shakeout, here’s The Bird and the Bee, “Preparedness” chillout, y’all. http://songza.com/z/iqwr6e #
- how would one download podcasts over the air to Blackberry Bold? Love that feature on the N95 #
- Cubs finally put 1998 behind them, say goodbye to Kerry Wood. Maybe next year really is *the* year. Now gimme Lowe/Peavy http://tr.im/12l2 #
- @artindeepkoma Gregg will be a fine setup man for Carlos Marmol #
- thinking about pre- @hodgman recital grub at Masa. Hoping for the extremely experimental, i.e.: http://tinyurl.com/6hncru #
- 100+ No on 8 protesters outside El Coyote. Traffic slow for 1 block on Beverly. Peaceful, jubilant, no visible 5-0 #
- finally had a reason to use DownThemAll plugin today. It’s come along way… great for passing assets through the cloud when FTP is no go. #
- everytime I see people reference QoS I can’t help but think of @queenofspain. Seems a lot of people want to see you tomorrow, QoS. #
- totally distracted from work by photos of Montecito Tea Fire. 70 + homes destroyed?!? Had to post it up for @LAist: http://tr.im/1327 #
- laist #
- LOLZ. thanks twitter for making the “delete” feature temporarily unavailable. Sorry for that last one – was intended for search box replizes #
- http://twitpic.com/loay – @MissMotorMouth yes, I went there, and sadly no — can not destroy. watch your libel, tweeps… no delete! #
- The AP keeps conflating Montecito with celebrities. Typical SoCal linkbaiting. Only “celeb” I know of out there is @dsearls. Hope yr hou … #
- @tanjab not saying there arent celebs with property in #
- montecito, but i’m celebrity-stupid 😉 #
4th and Long for McCain: Is Obama’s Day Here at Last?
As far as I’m concerned, if McCain calls in sick to tonight’s debate, he may as well forfeit the election. Clearly not fit to serve. I invite any and all arguments to the contrary. Here’s a samplling from the mighty blogosphere:
Kristol: McCain’s Choice
Dionne: The Photo McCain Wanted
Krugman: Demolition accomplished
Spike Lee: ‘Punk Move’
Mark Kleiman: Tick-tock on a train wreck
Slate: First Palin, Then Campaign Suspension. What Now?
Starting Gate: Five Questions For Tonight’s Debate
faboo mama: Timeline of Another McCain Publicity Stunt
In late-breaking news, the McCain campaign says that — hey, hey! — the GOPs candidate for disaster president will make it at last! Never mind the drama, ol’ McSame still really does want to be president. McCain / Obama Debate @ Ole Miss, Oxford, Mississippi 9 p.m. EDT on nine networks. If you’ll be watching online, I recommend C-Span and Twitter’s new Election microsite.
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In an iReport World, Who Can We Trust?
In the mid-2008 media world, every network, blog, and news website wants to break the big impact story in times of developing news. For hours after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Chino Hills, ~30 miles from LA, rocked Southern California, all of the major networks and their websites continued carrying the news with a red BREAKING NEWS flag attached. But other than shaking up millions of people and scattering items off of shelves, there was no “news” to break (at least as of 4pm, more than 4 hours after the initial temblor).
The photo above first aired on CNN and was sent in by someone who was supposedly in the supermarket at the time — what CNN terms as an iReporter. Sure, it is very possible that many of the paper goods were shaken to the ground during the 15-20 seconds in which the ground, building, and everything else shook. But how are we to know when to believe whether a photo or video is faked, fabricated, or Photoshopped? CNN’s iReport Terms of Use addresses nothing about photo manipulation or regulations. And, to be fair, it’s not just citizen reporters that purposely fake photos for effect or attention, there are the memorable lessons in photojournalism fakery brought to us by the likes of Reuters, the LA Times and most recently, the Iranian government (and here are more.
Considering the small size and low resolution of the above photo, I won’t venture to investigate the possibility that it was digitally manipulated or whether it’s an honest to goodness eyewitness photo. But below, you’ll see a few surveillance camera or eyewitness camera viewpoint of what is clearly either real footage of the earthquake and it’s after affects, or simply fakes.
REAL:
Chino Hills Earthquake: My First Quake!
I waited 3 years to feel one and it was not an insignificant shake at 5.8 5.4 — epicenter 30 miles east of the house. Naturally, all the action was on Twitter — I went straight there to confirm and immediately knew that it was felt as far as San Diego and some appeared to feel a stronger quake than I did (see second photo). Moments later it was confirmed by USGS — a 5.8 quake.