Yes, Media Technology Use Can Go Too Far...

By Stephanie Toth

Skittles Gets Social

In March 2009, Mars Inc., the creator of Skittles, decided to take the concept of social media to a new extreme. After collecting a plethora of social media accounts, Mars changed its Web site into a sweet haven for social commentary about its candy. However, this idea proved futile in the end.

Move Over, Twitter

Just how far will social media go? First there were MySpace and Facebook. Then came Twitter, which took the Facebook status and turned it into a new form of expression. This video, a parody on the social media frenzy, takes Twitter and turns it into a microblogging catastrophe.

Tweets for the Po Po

A good journalist is always looking for new methods of obtaining information. In this article, a multimedia journalist suggests using Twitter as a police scanner. Most of the resources presented in this blog post involve using Twitter searches for keywords in various areas of interest.

DIY Digital News Box

The term “do-it-yourself” is taken to a whole new level in this story. A man that was not happy about the decline of print media came up with his own solution: a digital newspaper box. This technology-savvy individual took a newspaper box, commonly seen on street corners to deliver the daily print edition, and turned it into a digital display of front-page stories.

Who Wants to Be a Blogillionaire?

In this economy any job will do, some say. But how does blogging in a tropical atmosphere for more than $100,000 sound? One man is living his dream as a blogger/caretaker on an island near the Great Barrier Reef and is making serious cash at the same time.