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Story Archives of 'twitter'
Here's What's Awesome: Double Guitar Solos, Dating Rescues
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, November 1, 2009.I think Here's What's Awesome needs a catchphrase - something as catchy as Gomer Pyle's "Sha-zam!" but as down to earth as Daniel Schorr's "This is Daniel Schorr." Let's think on this as we explore another week of awesome links:
And next, three people and a piccolo
Two Brazilian musicians prove that a) you don't need two guitars to play a guitar duet, and b) you don't need to "beatbox" or sing about robots to become an internet musical sensation!
Refusing to Join Facebook
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, October 26, 2009.
While it seems like everyone and your grandma is on Facebook at this point, there are some holdouts. Even people in their 20s and 30s are refusing to join the ranks of the social networking site’s 300 million members. As the Washington Post reports, these so-called Facebook refuseniks cite privacy and data ownership among their concerns, but avoiding Facebook can lead to real social alienation.
We're joined by Washington Post staff writer Ian Shapira, and by Mary Flanagan, the chair of digital humanities at Dartmouth College.
The Washington Post: In a Generation That Friends and Tweets, They Don't
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Here's What's Awesome: The Internet Sings, and Remakes Star Wars
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, October 25, 2009.
Support for Here's What's Awesome comes from the Here's What's Awesome Foundation, helping awesome links help you, since 2008. On the web at... well, right here.
So what song is it y'all want to type in and have a computer sing?
Tweeting a Musical
By Zach Johnk on Tuesday, August 25, 2009.
We know all about Twitter’s usefulness as a promotional tool. It’s boosted audience numbers at events, from concerts to plays. But the online service may have even more uses.
A Broadway musical recently used it for more than just promotion. Over a six-week span, the play, titled "Next to Nothing," tweeted out lines and links to audio for musical numbers.
Here's What's Awesome: Tweeting the Western Wall, Prosthetics for Elephants
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, August 23, 2009.With Hurricane Bill sending torrents of rain down upon us, I wanted to start this week's column by reassuring you, dear reader, that no amount of rain can keep your weekly complement of awesome links from being delivered. Here's What's Awesome: we're like the Post Office, except we don't actually go out in the rain, we just work at a desk like we do when it's not raining. Forget I brought this up.
@god pls help me out kthx
Defending Narcissism
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
Sarah Palin’s been called one. So have Rod Blagojevich, Mark Sanford, investment bankers, people who Twitter, celebrities in Us Weekly, and just about everyone’s ex-husband or wife.
The word is narcissist, and it gets thrown around a lot these days – so much so that a previous guest on this show declared a “narcissism epidemic." But could there be a bright side to having all these self-absorbed people running around?
Emily Nussbaum, editor-at-large for New York magazine, joined us to talk about it. She’s written an article called "In Defense of Narcissism."
(Photo by sing me a song via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Twitter: Up All Night For Iran
By Andrew Walsh on Monday, June 15, 2009.
Earlier today on Word of Mouth, we talked about the role social media sites have played in Iran’s political campaigns and ongoing protests. The folks at Twitter apparently take their role in the region seriously: They’ve rescheduled a planned network upgrade that would have disabled the site for a while this evening.
Blogging Iran's Uprising
By Abby Goldstein on Monday, June 15, 2009.Violent post-election protests surged over the weekend in Iran. Police in riot gear used batons and tear gas against thousands of protestors who complained that president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the presidential election from opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavvi.
The demonstrators are mostly young, educated and wired Iranians who hoped for more freedom, a better economy and an improved image of Iran throughout the world. Moussavi’s campaign emulated some of President Obama’s tactics by using Facebook, text messages, YouTube and Twitter as organizational tools, despite frequent government shutdowns. Now, watchers the world over are following the riots moment-by-moment using Twitter, in spite of jammed phone lines and restricted servers.
To talk about this, we’re joined by Babak Rahimi. He is assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He’s been in Iran since March, keeping an eye on how Facebook and micro-blogging have influenced the election and he joins us from Tehran.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Facebook brings big changes to Iran politics
Huffington Post: Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising
openDemocracy: The politics of Facebook in Iran
(Photo by John McNab via Flickr/Creative Commons)
You're Not Really Dead Until You're Tweeting on Tweeji
By KJ DellAntonia on Saturday, May 16, 2009.
Tweet Your Band
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, May 14, 2009.
It’s not easy to make a buck in the music business these days. Album sales continue to plummet, and big summer festivals like Miami’s Langerado have been cancelled due to sluggish ticket sales. That doesn’t mean that musicians aren’t reaching their fans. In just 140 characters or less, an artist can tell their followers about a secret gig or brand new song.
Twitter gives us a glimpse into the private lives of our favorite musicians, but do we really care what some guy with a guitar ate for breakfast? Jay Sweet is editor-at-large for Paste Magazine and he joins us to for a tweet critique, as well as a preview of the summer festival scene.
Paste Magazine: "10 Musicians Worth Following on Twitter"
Rolling Stone: "Kanye West Rages Against Twitter Imposters in Blog Rant"
Plus, summer music festivals:
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
(Photo by Brother O'Mara via Flickr/Creative Commons)
