Vertically Striped Radio - Episode 164 - May 26,2012

Source: BlogTalkRadio

Vertically Striped Radio is the show that is half sports, half pop culture, and half really bad at fractions. A combination of Internet Memes, Sports, Movies, Pop Culture, Music, and things that make you think. Join host Craig Dodge and his ...
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If e-books are so big, why are they marketed so badly?

Source: Globe and Mail

Kate Carraway From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:00PM EDT Like everything else, it used to be easier. “We’d be guaranteed placement upfront in stores for our print books if we paid a ...
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Trayvoning Meme Emerges on Facebook

Source: Miami New Times

Can we try to keep our internet memes to fun things like cats and bastardizations of Disney characters? Because the sad, avoidable homicide of an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager should really not be grounds for memedom. Accordin ...
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"Trayvoning," the latest internet meme/outrage

Source: Miami Herald

Apparently three to five guys on Facebook hit a nerve, especially in African-American media, by posting pictures of themselves as if they're a hoodie-clad and Skittles-and-ice-tea-clutching Trayvon Martin after the Miami Gardens 17 year old ...
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YouTube Launches Human Rights Channel

Source: Mashable

Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share YouTube has launched a Human Rights channel, with non-profit partner Witness and video playlist creator Storyful, the company announced Thursday. The channel will curate footage of human rights-related stor ...
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China Photoshop Fail: ‘Floating’ Park Inspectors Prompt Online Ridicule

Source: Time Magazine

The old cut-and-paste technique works well in kindergarten classrooms and papier mache projects, but doesn’t transfer so smoothly to Photoshop — as officials from the Zhejiang Hangzhou Yuhang government recently discovered. On May 9, the offi ...
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Lindsay Hoffman: A Student Perspective: Generational Differences in News Use

Source: The Huffington Post

Students in my Politics and Media class at the University of Delaware have been writing blogs on current issues and relating them to class content this semester. As outlined in a previous blog , I'm posting some ...
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