Smile! You're an Unwitting Net Star!
Steven Levy writes in Newsweek:
By now you've heard enough about Michael Richards's racist meltdown at a Los Angeles comedy club. Plenty has been said about the content of his outburst, but not as much on the speed and thoroughness with which the news spread.More here.
The enabler of this ubiquity was a combination of two related technologies: cheap, portable video recording and broadband Internet. It's a one-two punch that will increasingly affect our public life—even for some people who aren't in public life to begin with.
posted by Fergie @ 12/03/2006 11:16:00 AM
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