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Jan
12

This Just In: Old Media Still Doesn’t “Get” New Media

Justin on January 12th, 2010

Trust me: when it comes to social media, debating whether or not someone “gets it” is the kind of empty argument that makes me want to punch people in the throat.  But phrases don’t get overused unless they’re accurate, and in the case of the Sunday morning TV political roundtables, there’s more than enough throat [...]

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Sep
18

The Absent Morality of Marcus the Lamb

Justin on September 18th, 2009

Earlier this week, Reuters reported that a group of 14 English schoolchildren had voted (13-1) to have Marcus, a six month-old pet lamb that the class had raised from birth and hand-fed, put to death. Although 250 children at the primary school in Kent take part in the program, designed to teach them about raising [...]

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