In a couple of videos by Thought Traveler posted to YouTube in 2009 is a vision of the ruins of Heritage USA. Heritage USA was a Praise the Lord amusement park with the idea that it would ideologically sound for Christians, especially those that followed PTL, theme park. With the failure of PTL later on, [...]
I have a problem with media, from Fox News all the way through the Young Turks. Right or left it does not matter, what we have been exposed to is ragged yellow journalism, regardless of your political leanings. We can use yellow journalism to start a war, and indeed we have for the last 100 [...]
It is not often that you read a book that simply makes sense, and Tim Wu strings together a series of events evocative of the old “connections” TV show. Tim paints a picture of the difficulties that companies have cannibalizing current product lines and products in favor of the next big thing. By using AT&T [...]
The more you look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. You can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better your [...]
Social Networking is facing the prospects of being deputized by the Australian Federal Police, Facebook, and other social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the most important sources for intelligence about people. Forget neighbors talking to the police, now we are looking at our socially connected world as being involved with law enforcement. [...]
Jet Blue has two approaches to the use of social media, external and internal. The use of external social media comprises Twitter, a pseudo blog “Flight Log” that has not been updated since October 2007, Facebook and MySpace pages. There is also a YouTube channel that is updated occasionally. Internal use was field tested via [...]
Mining social networking sites for some downright interesting pictures of people doing things could not be easier. The bad part is that it is very easy to do, the good part is that adding pictures to your privacy settings is going to be something you want to do. There are basically five web sites that [...]
