Tag: LIVEBLOGGING

What's the point of watching The Oscars if you can't have the entire Internet screaming in your eyes at the same time? The pomp, the glitz, the gladhanding and the empty ceremony of the biggest awards show of the year all demand collective commentary. For the Academy Awards, we like to grab a cheap bottle of cava, don our finest sweatpants, and hop on the Web for an evening of glamour that ...

Twitter, Facebook, live-blogging: they're no longer just social media networks. Instead, they're becoming legitimate sources of news information where ordinary people can not only participate in the reportage of news stories, but make headlines as well. On June 13th, incumbent Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeated Mir Hossein Mousavi in a landslide victory characterized voting ...

A side effect of turning into the twittering, status-updating, text-messaging generation is that we are becoming expert critics and purveyors of the comedic one-liner. Just look up Internet phenomenon Texts From Last Night to see what you can do with a little 160-character humor, or talk to the comedians at Twitter Comedy Club (@tweetcomedyclub). An exercise in the possibilities of real-time ...