In today’s world, breaking news is spread very rapidly and i can assure you its not by the news reporters but by users of the internet and people who have access to cameras/camera phones. In the past it used to be that you received all your news from a big media company that would air [...]
I found this exercise to be pretty fun. It really does feel good to create something, even if it is deemed meaningless by Shirky. Creating this LOLCAT image macro didn’t take as long as thinking what to say in it. The meme generating websites (memecreator.com) really help ease the pain of having to custom [...]
In Clay Shirky’s “Cognitive Surplus”, Clay goes on to speak about the meaningful ways of sharing content through social media outlets such as Wikipedia or just webpages alone intended on relaying information to the outside world. He uses an example of how people decided to share Kenyan war outbreaks and civil unrest virally through internet [...]