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This American Life (video)

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Chris Ware talks about his work

pewinternet.org - 10/21/2009

Pew Internet & American Life Project

— pewinternet.org — Overview Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% ... (more) Pew Internet & American Life Project

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Second Life Work

— work.secondlife.com — Second Life: Ready for Work Spotlight on Training Second Life is the leader of virtual meeting, event, training, prototyping, and simulation solutions that catalyze innovation while reducing the cost and environmental impact of travel. Why Work In ... (more) Second Life Work

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Boing Boing: Chris Ware animation of This American Life story

MAKE Magazine: Fake TV camera trend takes over elementary school

TechCrunch: NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

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[from drewvigal] YouTube - This American Life: "Chris Ware talks about his work." http://bit.ly/1MPNVz 31 hours ago

Take three minutes and watch this remarkable 'This American Life' story about the way media works http://bit.ly/1YeDhG 5 days ago

hmm why ami watching stuff on youtube http://bit.ly/PuHeY - What have camera's done to us. 8 days ago

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Chris Ware animation of This American Life story
Boing Boing — This is an outstanding cartoon (by Chris Ware) depicting a This American Life story about kids who started a fake TV camera craze at their elementary school. As Graham says, "It's so amazing. Why can't there be more of this? I could watch HOURS of this."

Fake TV camera trend takes over elementary school
MAKE Magazine — This fascinating piece, from This American Life (animated by Chris Ware), tells the story of an elementary school where a couple of kids made a TV camera out of cardboard and tempera paint. Soon, the cardboard camera craze went viral and it seemed like every kid was either a camera operator, an anchor, or some other faux TV production person. Then things went positively post-modern. Chris Ware animation of This American Life story Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in ...

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
TechCrunch — I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately it’s hard to feel smug – hard to feel anything but sadness and nausea – when thirteen innocent people are dead. I’m talking, of course, about Thursday’s Fort Hood shootings. Better informed and more sensitive commentators than I have written about the massacre itself and what it means ...