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...case because the 10-year statute of limitations had expired. But when RAI's flagship channel reported the news during its lunchtime broadcast, the presenter announced that the lawyer had been "acquitted" of the charges. Until recently, the comment would have gone unchallenged. This time, however, the clip went viral on Facebook. A group set up to protest the broadcast quickly grew to nearly 200,000 members, most of whose names were printed out and delivered to RAI's offices in a suitcase. "Our way to organize, to make our voice heard, to be clear that we are so many...
...life-form I have ever seen," Breitbart said. Blumenthal's putative offense had been to accuse O'Keefe in an article for Salon.com of attending a gathering that featured "white nationalists." All these outbursts were captured on cell-phone cameras wielded by members of competing camps. The videos went viral. The attack dog had become a mad dog. (See the 25 best blogs...
Until there's a scientific breakthrough or a change of heart from the powers that be, Sendek says he hopes to keep the effort moving. He plans on launching a website at hellapetition.com soon, and like any good Internet entrepreneur, he's trying to cash in on his viral success by selling T-shirts. "I've realized there's a pretty big nerd base out there," Sendek says. If nothing else, Sendek's quirky effort will be a hella good résumé line when he graduates from college...
...from which to dominate the conversation. Last summer, a single phrase - "death panels" - nearly derailed health care reform, as town halls were flooded with angry voters who got their information online. That there was no proposal for anything that resembled a death panel did not matter; the idea went viral anyway. "The process for covering the President hasn't changed as much as the medium of the media has," explains Gibbs, who recently joined Twitter and promptly earned 34,000 followers. "You have a complete segmentation of the media that you haven't had before." (See 10 ways Twitter will...
...name-your-favorite-cut-of-pork. And calling forth the spirit of America's tea-dumping colonists in Boston has never been easier than it is now. One irony for Obama is that the Tea Party movement is using his own organizing techniques against him: Meetup.com announcements, Twitter tweets, viral videos, e-mail trees and all the other innovations falling under the politically potent umbrella known as social networking. Indeed, in the online age, the whole purpose of physical gatherings has changed. Real crowds draw virtual crowds, and vice versa, as David DeGerolamo, a Tea Party organizer from North Carolina...