Those you who have been following Clay Spinuzzi on Twitter know that he has been starting to gather data for his latest study (his latest book, Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications just came out in hardback from Columbia UP). He mentioned in one of his tweets that he ought to blog about the…
Josh Marshall has confirmed that the Obama campaign has bought add space in the game Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360 platform. A screen shot: Gigaom reports: “I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told…
In “Make-Believe Maverick” Rolling Stone‘s Tim Dickinson (who according to his byline “joined the Republican Party in 2000 to vote for McCain in the California primary”) revisits John McCain’s biography and finds one myth after another. The most damning: McCain “broke down under torture and offered a ‘confession’ to his North Vietnamese captors.” The…
I just heard on BBC Radio’s Newshour (which annoyingly doesn’t have individual story archives on their web site) that the social networking site, Bebo, is sending messages composed by users to an earth-like planet from a telescope in the Ukraine. According to Alexa, Bebo is the 102nd most visited site in the world, the…