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Poets for Haiti’s publicity strategy mirrors that of the Harvard for Haiti benefit. Internet marketing can effectively target specific groups and, according to Jim Henle, a poet and co-organizer of the event, much of the Poets for Haiti publicity is transmitted via email sent over various lists in the poetry community. Henle added that, like the Harvard for Haiti Benefit Concert, information was also distributed through local newspapers and flyers...
...fairness, the Super Bowl-“M*A*S*H” comparison is intricately complicated. Those of us privileged to watch television in 2010 have many more channels (not to mention the Internet) vying for our attention than was the case in 1983. Yet, I can’t help but feel that the success of the Super Bowl is not a victory for television, at least in the traditional sense; it is a victory for the advertising-industrial complex...
...excellent) essay on ChatRoulette, New York magazine's Sam Anderson approaches his first foray into the video streams with "an open mind and an eager soul," seeing the Whitmanesque potential in the "ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind." Sorry, Sam, but I'm no Internet naïf. I've plumbed the depths of the Web, and one thing I've learned is that when you give anyone an open platform with anonymity and no moderating, it inevitably gets overrun by the lowest common denominators: trolls, exhibitionists and an endless stream of hopeful men prodding women...
Whitesides discussed how the application of simple problem-solving methods can be used to work out complex problems. Citing the examples of cathedrals built of individual stones and the binary code that allows for computers and the Internet, Whitesides urged attendees to seek simple solutions to their complicated questions...
...that kept the movement alive despite widespread arrests - proved to have its limits. With different leaders calling for demonstrations at different locations, there was no one spot where a massive display of opposition force could hold its own against the government. The government jamming of mobile phones, texting and Internet services prevented flash-mob-style impromptu organizing from taking place...