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Mumbai and Social Media: Data is Not NewsNovember 30

The flurry of tweets on Twitter following the terrible events that developed last Thursday in Mumbai have many New Media proponents once again promulgating the notion that Twitter and other social media services are not only changing the face of news media but are dramatically improving it. One of my favorite New Media news hypesters, Michael [...]

Happy ThanksgivingNovember 26

Since I know most of my readers are in the United States, The Drama 2.0 Show wishes you a very happy Thanksgiving. What am I thankful for this year? The fact that I haven’t been incarcerated. A global economic crisis that has created many profitable trades (and fools like Howard Lindzon who make those those trades possible). Patrón Gran [...]

Best. Invite. Ever.November 26

Earlier today, a reader of The Drama 2.0 Show forwarded me an invite sent to her by the founder of a new startup whose service apparently just came out of private beta. The two paragraphs that had me smiling: I am asking all of you to go to [URL removed] , sign up and deposit $10 [...]

Wall Street Journal: Google To Lay Off ContractorsNovember 25

Google may still be the Internet’s 400-lb. gorilla but the global economic crisis has given the company an ass-beating that it and its employees won’t soon forget. Despite its ability to hold up quite well thus far in a tough environment, the company isn’t nearly as recession-proof as top executives believed: after hitting a high of [...]

What the Fuck is Wrong with People?November 24

I received a curious comment today on an old post I wrote last year: Just so that no other semi-professional media types make the same mistake that Linux Insider did, this article is A *joke*. A *spoof*. A *parody*. Second Life has lots of weapons, but they can’t be used to “kill” other residents except in [...]