Interesting stuff I saw online, Jan. 15 to Jan. 17
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Jan. 15 through Jan. 17:
- Is Citizen Journalist Coverage of a Plane Crash More Important Than a Plane Crash? – “Is the rise of citizen journalism one of the best outgrowths of the digital age? Absolutely. But the phenomenon is so thoroughly embedded in the way stories break now that stories about citizen journalists covering stories seem passe.” — BNET Media Blog
- Social Media Steals the Show in NY Plane Crash – “Photographs showing Flight 1549’s emergency landing began popping up on social networking sites like Facebook and microblogging services like Twitter and Tumblr well before national news reports caught wind of the story. And for Web users who were at work, out of the office, or otherwise far from a TV, social media remained their sole source for updates on the story.” — InternetNews Realtime IT News
- South Carolina Legislator Seeks to Criminalize Profanity in Public – “Has Senator Ford ever heard of the First Amendment?” — Citizen Media Law Project
- Create a code-free Google map with tabs in 3 steps | graphic designr – “You can now create a map with tabbed map windows — still without messing with code. Click on the markers in this map of places President Abraham Lincoln lived and traveled in Illinois to see the tabbed windows. Here’s how to make your own.”
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Kurt's Tweets- Funny. SW airlines magazine bothers to mention that pacemakers are always authorized electronic devices. #fb
- A disgrace, St. Louis. People still litter? http://post.ly/OUsk
- Redemption for Lindsey Jacobellis in snowboardcross? Only click if you really wanna know. http://bit.ly/99OgbM
- West Countians: If you're in the market for a pancake supper tonight, there's one here: http://stmartinschurch.org.
- The fiddling continues, even as Rome burns.