Facebook and Twitter help you keep track of every move made by your friends. But is this a good use of your time? ABC News talked to Clive Thompson, who wrote about the phenomena for the New York Times, what he calls “ambient awareness”. Link to segment. Link to entire webcast. Link to New York Times article.
Original post by Miss Cellania
American artist James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab went to Beijing during the Olympics last month to stage a demonstration about Tibet. He was arrested by Chinese authorities and sent to a local jail. In this ABC World News Webcast video, he talks about his experience. Link to Powderly segment.
Original post by Miss Cellania
Today, the ABC World News Webcast reports from the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on new trends in video games. Virtual musician games are hot! Get a sneak peek at Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, and Wii Music. Link to the segment. Link to the entire webcast.
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Today’s ABC World News Webcast features a look at Alex’s post from last week, the Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents. Since Alex is camera-shy, I was recruited to fill in. Link to Neatorama segment. Link to entire webcast.
Original post by Miss Cellania
Guitar Hero and its sequel Guitar Hero II have sold more than 4 million copies and racked up more than $1 billion in sales in United States alone. One Billion!
ABC World News Webcast interviews Eran Egozy and Alex Rigopulous of Harmonix about the phenomenon that is Guitar Hero (and the company’s new game Rock Band):
The simplest way to explain how you play the game is that there’s music being played in the background and notes are coming out and when they hit the what we call now bar, you strike that note and it sounds like the real music. […]
We get a lot of people saying "well, you’re just teaching people how to play fake instruments" I think that it’s better that they’re playing fake instruments than say, um, shooting people.
Link [ABC World News Webcast] - Thanks Natalie!
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Rick Klein, author of ABC New’s political unit The Note, takes a quick look at the Top 5 Best Campaign Trail Moments so far. His picks are:
- Giuliani taking a call from his wife during a campaign speech to the NRA- The dynamic campaign trail duo. the Huckster and the Chuckster- The Great Comeback: when Obama was asked a tough question, Hillary Clinton chimed in and Obama didn’t miss a beat … pwnd!- John McCain sings the Beach Bay Song "Bomb Iran"- Hillary Clinton’s showing that she’s human afterall (either that or she’s programmed to tear up)
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When it snowed last week, Lake Braddock Secondary School senior Devraj "Dave" Kori, 17, wondered why they didn’t call a snow day. So he called Dean Tistadt, the Fairfax County public school administrator’s home (it was a listed number) and left a voicemail.
Lo and behold, Tistadt’s wife - pissed at being called at home and at the implication that her hardworking husband wasn’t doing his job - called back to leave her own voicemail!
It was a bad move, though - thanks to the long arm of the web, the student got the upper hand: he posted her voicemail on the web!
Here’s the story: Link [ABC World News Webcast] | article at WaPo
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