at lunch today, I heard 3/4ths of an NPR story by Xeni Jardin she interviewed Doc Searls who just repeated his email. she also talked to a woman and man talking about how it may promote copycats, but I was surprised that no one said anything like "maybe they should have not released it" they mentioned that this is just the new manifesto, like ted kaczynski had his typewriter, today's murderers use digital media...
nevertheless, I would have preferred that they maybe describe the contents but kept the video to themselves. On 4/19/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh and the other month someone in the UK went into a video chatroom, > which was apparently one specifically designed to be for people to > hurl abuse at eachother. Only this bloke decided to hang himself, and > some people in the virtual room tried to sstop him, others goaded him > on, with one saying something about 'look he cant even do that > properly'. Anyway he hung himself right there with his webcam on, and > died before the emergecy services could get there. I imagine everyon > who was in that chatroom is scarred by the experience. > > Thats the most horrible thing Ive heard of happening on the net, and > where the net was actually a proper part of the story, and the linking > of things like Mondays tragedy to the net just seem extremely by > comparison. Bloggers who see everything in terms of the blogosphere > probably need to widen their world view bubble. > > NBC themselves called his package a 'multimedia manifesto' didnt they? > I feel less inclined to use the word multimedia myself now, so I can > see where people worried about the term videoblog being smeared by > this tragedy are coming from. > > Steve Elbows > > -- Josh Leo www.JoshLeo.com www.WanderingWestMichigan.com www.SlowLorisMedia.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
