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Media: Mexico’s Drug Cartels

Contributed by Rick DeVan on October 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Mexican social media boom draws drug cartel attacks.

Maria Macias used the Internet to denounce the brutality of local drugs lords in this Mexican border city until they silenced her and dumped her headless body on a busy street.

I don’t know what to do or where to go with this other than saying that I am at a loss. I have a semi-developed opinion, but my opinion is not important. Opinions don’t reattach heads.

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Media: The Diaspora* Difference

Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Diaspora* is making a difference

We’re thrilled to say we’ve built the first stage of a new social web, one better than what’s out there today: a place where each of us owns our own information, where each person controls his or her own privacy, where no-one is a product, and where we all control our own destinies.

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Media: Conspiracy Theories

Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Truthers: How Conspiracy Theories Spread via NPR.

Kay points to the Internet as a leading factor in the rise of conspiracy theories. He says that the web not only allows people to self publish (dodging the obstacle of editors and fact checkers), but also allows people to bypass mainstream media and only read conspiracy theory “news sites.”

Conspiracy theories never go away, even in the digital age (or because of it). Although it may be easier to spread conspiracy theories through technology, the flipside is that it is also easier to debunk them.

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Media: Twitter Emergency Boredom

Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Twitter Becomes a Playground During Hurricane Irene via NYTimes.com.

Many New Yorkers, faced with the boredom after 24 hours in hibernation, turned into comedians and cub reporters for the day. There were dozens of pictures taken from the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” where the Statue of Liberty is destroyed in a tidal wave, shared online.

There’s one, or one million, in every crowd.

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Media: Eye Camera

Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 8:00 pm ET

I suppose I should tell you that some may think this is ”icky“. I am as squeamish as they come and I think it’s cool, so I won’t bother warning you. I don’t think I would want it on around-the-clock, though.

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