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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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Kony 2012: the burnout of a social media meteor
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Kony 2012, the movement that streaked across global media like a righteous comet in early March, was meant to shake the world with a night of action on April 20, last Friday.
But Cover the Night fizzled.
"Paltry turnouts on Friday at locations across north America, Europe and Australia left cities largely unplastered and the movement's credibility damaged," wrote the Guardian, one of the few news outlets to actually cover the lack of action.
Sure, there were some activists who put up posters. A few.
The Kony 2012 website posted a slick video about it. But by Sunday night, the video had only 108,531 views, a pittance compared to the 88 million-plus who viewed the original documentary and were inspired to join up.
On my street in Santa Monica, one lone Kony poster was left hugging a tree on Sunday.
My daughter Alexandra, a student at Columbia University who has been wearing a red Kony bracelet since March, wrote me sheepishly that she was busy in the library and came late to the Friday night event.
"No one showed up :( ," she wrote. "It was quite sad. Even Fox called (an organizer) that day to ask if they could interview students on campus and they never showed up, either... don't know what that says about the movement."
Julie Halpin, a spokeswoman for Invisible Children, the group behind the anti-Kony effort, disagreed that Cover the Night failed. "For Invisible Children, Cover the Night was a huge success," she told me on Monday. "People all over the country and all over the world participated. But the mainstream media didn't cover it the way they covered the first video. So it's a perception."
In fact, the mainstream media didn't cover it at all.
To me, Kony 2012 was another extraordinary step in testing the boundaries of social media. The movement took an issue from zero public awareness to headline news in every major news outlet to the embrace of the White House, fueled by the enthusiasm of hundreds of thousands of kids across the nation.
But it didn't last. Quickly came the wolves of the internet, who howled about how the nonprofit spent its money, criticized the naivete of the activists and questioned the utility of the protest. The web-savvy activists of Kony 2012 reacted quickly, but the pressure took its toll.
The founder of the movement, Jason Russell, collapsed. He was arrested in San Diego, detained by police and hospitalized after witnesses saw him running through streets in his underwear, screaming and banging his fists on the pavement.
Said a spokesman at the time: "The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday."
That, combined with the criticism, turned the newfound zeal of some into tempered curiosity.
Or did the kids just get bored? I asked my 18-year-old, who had pronounced the original 29-minute video one of the most important films he'd ever seen.
"Once I started hearing negative things, I thought, ?I don't feel as strongly as I did,'" Jeremy told me. "But what he (Jason Russell) did, and the idea definitely overpowers anything else."
But not enough to make him participate.
"I guess not," he said.
My daughter wrote that the problem was timing. "Personally, I think the event should have taken place a week after they leaked the video because most people just forgot about it."
Indeed. The fizzling of Kony says a lot about our era of short attention spans.
Also telling: The comments on the new Kony video on Youtube had been disabled. And Cover the Night was framed not as crowning effort but as merely the next step in the effort to bring the Ugandan warlord to justice.
We'll see whether that's the case.
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Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer: ?The New iPad Is On Fire?
If you were one of the naysayers who thought that there wouldn't be a very strong consumer appetite for the newest twist on the already very popular iPad, it may be time to think again. Apple's top executives said today that just a few weeks after the new iPad's formal launch, the response to the company's latest iteration on the tablet has been incredibly strong -- and it's making an impact from a financial perspective. "We're just learning about the elasticity of demand and the $399 price point is doing well, but I have to tell you the new iPad is on fire and we're selling them as fast as we can make them," CFO Peter Oppenheimer said during the company's first quarter earnings call with investors, a sentiment that Tim Cook echoed verbatim later on in the call. This latest release, which saw three million devices sold in its first weekend alone, was Apple's fastest iPad rollout ever, he said.madonna halftime show linsanity the alamo anencephaly tesla model x lou gehrig toby mac
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Look Into A Hunting Preserve When Educating A Youngster On How ...
If you are a sportsman that is aware of the state of youth hunting in this country, then I am sure that you know our children are the future of hunting for us all. It has never been truer than it is today. The youngsters of this day and age are stuck inside - targeted by corporations whose non-stop attack against them includes TV shows, movies, games and internet programing. All of these distractions have our kids stuck inside doing nothing other than blankly staring into an LED lit screen.
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If we hunters are going to successfully compete against these distractions for time with our own kids then we need to give it our best shot. Kids today get instant gratification and satisfaction from the technology that they use. If they want to watch something in particular all they have to do is push a button and instantly it's on demand for them right in front of their eyes! They have been raised to believe that whatever you want can be had with the push of a button.
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That brings me full circle to the topic of this article...
?Look Into A Hunting Preserve When Educating A Youngster On How To Properly Hunt.? As parents it's our responsibility to introduce our kids to hunting and nature. We need them hooked on hunting from the word go not on video games.?
Children of this day and age expect video game action where the second you start an activity...BAM the excitement begins. Don't get me wrong and think that I am saying all sorts of shooting and killing has to happen for this to be a positive experience for them.
What I am saying though is that there needs to be lots of action. Seeing several deer or roaming packs of hogs all throughout a property or hunt. For a kids first outing, I think that a Hunting Preserve has distinct advantages over your basic hunting camp/club set-up.?
Hunting Preserves by design have lots of animals, superb hunting action, and in most preserves very roomy - quiet - comfortable hunting stands. The word "ACTION" is the key in that last sentence. That's what the youngsters of today are looking for and that is what we should try and deliver for their 1st hunting trip.
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Obviously before your child is ready to go out into the woods and harvest an animal there are several preparations to be made and skills that must be mastered and learned. Hunter safety, firearm handling, outdoorsman skills along with others need to be passed on from adult to child before a hunt can happen. Make it part of your plan from the start that once these skills are mastered the reward is the first hunting trip.
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This I know I did right with my child and his 1st hunting experience. I know that he will never forget it. From the word go he was hooked on hunting and I am quite sure that he still is to this very day. Because of the actions I took when he was a young child I now have a life-long hunting partner. He started successfully as a young boy and now at 14 yrs. old he is a very accomplished hunter who has taken several deer all by himself.
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I hope that the sportsman who read this, who is concerned about the future of hunting, will educate a child on the proper ways of hunting and take them on a trip of a lifetime. If that first-time experience is at a game preserve, then great! If not just make sure you do all you can to ensure it is full of fun and full of ACTION. By doing so we will be successful in keeping the next generation of hunters involved in the sport and this will ensure that hunting stays strong and grows well into the future.
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Vintage Nikon fisheye lens aims to dwarf your DSLR, for sale at 100,000 quid
A lens that can look behind itself -- the very idea of it nearly boggles the mind, but it's what the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f2.8s claims to be able to do, delivering a viewing angle of 220-degrees. This gargantuan fisheye lens was introduced in 1972, and was reportedly only available through special order. The price of getting your hands on one today? Oh, only about £100,000 ($161,210 American) for a lens in mint condition, and only from Grays of Westminster, a London Camera shop that deals exclusively in Nikon products. It isn't the first time this prodigious piece of glass has shown up, two years ago an identical lens hit eBay to the tune of $34,020 -- a veritable bargain, by comparison. Check out the source link below to peek at the sale. Wallet can't take the damage? Scope out "more coverage" for a bit of Nikon history.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Deal of the Day: Incipio NGP Semi-Rigid Soft Shell Case for Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX
The April 23 ShopAndroid.com Deal of the Day is the Incipio NGP Semi-Rigid Soft Shell Case for Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX. This case safeguards your RAZR MAXX with a semi-ridi polymer shell, and features custom-cut holes allowing access to your camera hole and other functions. The NGP material is malleable enough to slip around and snugly hold your RAZR MAXX, but firm enough to withstand impacts and scrapes.
The Incipio NGP Case comes in black, magenta, mercury, and is available for just $12.95 today only, 35% off the regular price. Grab yours while supplies last!
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Acer dips its toes into Ivy Bridge, refreshes two of its desktops with new processors
Now that the Ivy Bridge cat is out of the bag, you can expect to see a deluge of press releases from PC makers over the coming weeks, each of them saying that this computer or that is getting refreshed with Intel's latest processors. From Acer, at least, we expect multiple announcements: it's only ready to talk about a couple of desktops today, with news around laptops and Ultrabooks coming later. Right now, you can choose from several configurations of the Predator AG3620 gaming tower, with the top-shelf $1,200 model packing a 3.4 GHz Core i7 3770 CPU, NVIDIA GT630 graphics, 16GB of RAM and 2TB of storage space. On the budget end, the $799 Gateway D4860-UR14P will feature a 3.1 GHz Core i5 3450 processor, 6GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. Both are available now -- you know, if you've been waiting for precisely this sort of thing.
Acer dips its toes into Ivy Bridge, refreshes two of its desktops with new processors originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Japanese Tsunami Survivor's Football Returned, via the Alaskan Coast [Japan]
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