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THE UNIVERSE: How would reporters cover the end of the world?

Earlier this month at News Foo, a get-together on the future of news in Phoenix hosted by O’Reilly Media, Google and the Knight Foundation at Arizona State University, Andrew Fitzgerald posed a question to the gathered media: HOW WOULD REPORTERS AND THE MEDIA COVER THE END OF THE WORLD? Just grabs your attention, doesn’t it? […]

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SOCIAL MEDIA: Get to know China’s social media equivalents

Let’s face it. China owns us and we’ll be soon calling them Gentle Overlords much sooner than you think. And, as you may or may not know, they tend to look down our “basic rights” and “freedom” of stuff. Our traditional ways of thinking, feeling, eating, sleeping, tying our shoes, omelets, vertical blinds, etc. will […]

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VIDEO: A frustrated bro tackles Japanese’d Mario Brothers game

Just canNOT stop watching these videos over and over again. Some sadistic Japanese programmer created a Flash version of the original Mario Brothers and added some insane and maddening traps along the way. And when we mean random, we mean Dr. Ian Malcolm fractal random. Enter Chonny, a video game enthusiast (we think), who at […]

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MEDIA: Reporters at #OWS get occupied themselves

Tony Kornheiser, our beloved radio/ podcasting sports grandpa, likes to regale his listeners with stories from the newsroom back in the golden age of typewriters. One thing that he points out when comparing that time versus now is the power of the press pass: back then, flashing credentials would open doors and mouths (not in […]

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