The world united by a ball" — once a World Cup motto — was now a world united by the tube
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Havelange gradually shifted FIFA's TV-rights deals from broadcast cooperatives, which paid very little, to privately owned broadcasters. Initially, the broadcasters reaped major profits from selling advertising during the live telecasts of the games.
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Her Wikipedia entry has attracted nearly 500,000 page views since it was created last Sunday
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The difference between "viral" and "spreadable" media has to do with the conscious agency of the consumers.
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they had a sense of discovery
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so far so fast was that it could travel so far so fast
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We have to understand the Susan Boyle phenomenon as occurring at the intersection between broadcast media (or to use Amanda Lotz's term, television in the post-network era.) In other words, this is convergence culture at work.
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The Twitter Tribes can figure out what content the audience wants to see because the Twitter Tribes are the audience, making decisions in real time
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I sent the link via e-mail to my wife with a note saying "want to feel warm and fuzzy," to a close friend with a note suggesting "this will crack you up," and to my Twitter and Facebook mobs with the suggestion it illustrates something important about reality television because you wouldn't believe this if you saw it in a movie.
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Susan Boyle circulates because she's meaningful on many different levels
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gift economy
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because we now often interact with each other through sharing meaningful bits of media content.
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Market demand is dramatically outpacing supply
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if she appears on Oprah
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My bet is that many of them would pay for this content but it is not legally being offered to them
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We are reaching across borders in search of content, zones which were used to organize the distribution of content in the Broadcast era, but which are much more fluid in an age of participatory culture and social networks.
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And people are seeking out videos of Elaine Paige, the queen of British stage musicals, who Susan identified as her role model.
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To convince critics that 3-D movies are no longer the snake-oil salesman’s hustle
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The chorus of children around us agreed, as the theater echoed with giggles, squeals, and the random bleats of adolescent amazement
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For the first time in the medium’s history, you are there
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But children who see the movie on DVD in a few months will wonder what happened to their roller coaster as it morphs into little more than a bumper-car ride
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It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s most certainly a milestone
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Up, an animated 3-D feature from the Disney Pixar studios
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Traditionally, the Cannes organisers have preferred to keep animated features at arm's length
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Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less - Technotica- msnbc.com - 0 views
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Twitter gets you fired
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Facebook fired
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Employers followed employee's facebook pages and drunk photos over the weekend caused many people to lose their jobs.
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Do you remember Mr Ferguson's assembly on Facebook? How much truth do you think there will be in employers schecking your facebook account as part of the interview process?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=379&tag=nl.e540 An example from around a month ago (27th March). People argue that she was treated unfairly. She was fired because it was written down. If she had said that out loud, her boss would not have been able to prove it. http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=1005&tag=nl.e539 Suggesting how Web Social 2.0 applications, like facebook and twitter, is becoming too powerful causing too much of an impact onto our lives.
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And some brands you like because those brands extend your personality, others you don’t. It’s personal and changes.
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Branding is evolving in something more sophisticated and difficult to grasp. Brands want to be your friend, brands want to connect to you, not just for one purchase, for your entire life. Just like newspapers
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Brands relies less on buying ads in media, they are media, and some brands (like Apple) even orchestrate the media
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Current TV was also broadcasting the event on television and used Twitter. Which is great for television, because television is a one-to-many medium and you can easily interact with the television by using a Twitter client on your phone or laptop
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a hate-figure turned national icon.
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Even Clifford himself openly doubts whether Alfie is the true father
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He says stopping stories is more central to what he does than placing them, but sometimes to stop a story you need to be able to offer something in return.
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Journalists are just as devious as PR people
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The imminence of death has revived her career and put to flight those who criticised her as a creature born of reality TV
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her plight has encouraged more women to get cervical smear tests
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