DD: Washington Post’s Social Media-Tracking Tool: Does It Work?

Fast Chat: How World Leaders Are Engaging in ‘Twiplomacy’

Many world leaders are on Twitter, but few of them follow each other (except maybe Barack Obama). Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz on the age of 140-character diplomacy.

Facebook Doesn’t Need a New CEO, Reuters Needs a New Technology Writer

You know what’s great about blogs? Anyone can become a reporter.

You know what’s horrible about blogs? Anyone can become a reporter.

Can Your Brain Force You to Kill?

Just over a week has passed since the Aurora shootings and the media jumped on the subject of gun control. The more immediate debate brewing, however, seems to be the one that will decide the fate of James Holmes, the 24 year old madman responsible for the shootings.

Already, the murmur of the death penalty for James Holmes is steadily building to an audible rumble. The especially strange circumstances of Holmes, who claimed to be “The Joker” after committing his deeds, draws particular and exacting attention to the common question of the relationship between mental stability and criminal justice.

An article in the New York Times by John Monterosso and Barry Schwartz explores some of the murky silt that comes with determining a mentally unwell individual’s responsibility in a crime. The article explains that we tend to place human action in two categories: those that we intentionally perform, and those that our brain “forces” us to do. The article terms this “naïve dualism.” Why naïve?

A Plea To Social Media: Leave The Olympics Aloooooooone!

There appears to be an argument about whether social media will “spoil” the results of the Olympics by being too timely, or whether fans’ real-time coverage will prove “supplemental” to the TV broadcasts of the games, TechNewsWorld says.

Would you call Tweeting the end of The Dark Knight Rises to someone “supplemental?”

SPOILER ALERT: I think not.