There’s Journalism, And There’s Journalists

August 25, 2011

When something big happens, the press turns to the public because everyone can be a journalist these days.

Breaking The Bin Laden Story

May 3, 2011

Osama bin Laden’s death is, for Americans and many others around the world, the biggest news since Sept. 11, 2001. So who broke the story? We could make the case that it was Twitter user Sohaib Athar, a self-described computer consultant who happened to be awake at 1 a.m. Sunday when U.S. military helicopters descended on the terror leader’s hideout, near Athar’s home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He reported “a huge …

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The Great Firewall Of Harrisburg

September 17, 2010

Inspired, perhaps, by the rulers of China and Iran, the powers that be at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology are giving the school its own “great firewall.” For one week, students, faculty and employees at the Pennsylvania campus will be unable to reach social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, via the campus network. But the college’s goal is not to suppress information. The goal of the exercise, according …

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The Executioner’s Tweet

June 23, 2010

Capital punishment is carried out in this country behind closed prison doors, not on network television — though, if we are trying to deter heinous crime, one would think we ought to make the death penalty as visible as we can. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff seems to have found the next best thing to live television. Moments after he ordered the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner …

Quite A Haul

May 28, 2010

When it comes to computer trends, the kids always get there first. From instant messages to Facebook to YouTube to Twitter, my girls (and everyone else’s offspring) were the early adopters, only to have their parents and grandparents eventually follow. Of course, we don’t follow until we figure out what, exactly, you can do with this stuff. Now we know. Facebook is how you find out that the geeky guy …

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