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The IOC vs. social media

A recent article on Mashable about the 2012 Olympics in London again shows just how crazy the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has gotten when it comes to regulating its event.

It’s being billed as “the first social media Olympic Games” but with the IOC’s rather anti-social policies it’s questionable just how social they will be.

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April 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Television, football, advertising, and strategy

After probably the most anathemic event to hit any Houston area fan of amusement parks, the shuttering of Six Flags Astroworld in 2005, I would never have expected the scene to feel so empty. Four years and change later, and still nothing permanent has been built on the former site. It’s a huge change for [...]

February 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

One giant step over the line in Illinois

Pete Cashmore’s recent article for Mashable and an article in Salon report on Governor Pat Quinn signing into law a bill that prohibits registered sex offenders from using social media sites.

At first glance, to the masses, it looks like common sense legislation aimed at protecting us from the likes of child predators and serial [...]

August 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

AP sticks their nose in reporters’ Facebook profiles

Wired.com’s Threat Level reports on a new Associated Press policy aimed at reporters. The intent of the policy is “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.”

That would be all well and good. Except this is for employees’ personal Facebook profiles–and that is where I think this policy goes over the [...]

June 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Twitter: dead or alive, dying or growing?

Okay, I was really torn between going ahead with a very belated entry about this, versus just moving on to the next story. (Aside: I actually have a backlog of stories I wanted to blog, and deleted three draft entries about news articles that looked good when I landed on them in StumbleUpon but which [...]

June 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Live tweeting a plane crash escape

Submitted with a minimum of extra commentary: “Holy %$&#*@$ #@+* I Was Just In A Plane Crash”. (Title of the actual article is, of course, uncensored.)

I know it’s a bit old, but I just saw this today, and wanted to help make sure this made the rounds.

December 31st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment