Twitter was bombarded on Thursday afternoon by the shocking news that a six-year-old boy had climbed into a homemade hot-air balloon and taken off over Colorado--the microblogging service's timeline temporarily slowed to a crawl and its trending topics were filled with tags like Colorado, Denver, and #balloonboy.
He was never actually in the balloon, apparently: CNN reported later on Thursday that he was found, safe, hiding in a box in the attic of his family home.
Live video streams from news outlets' helicopters showed the saucer-shaped balloon speeding through the air and then making a relatively soft landing. But then those same news outlets began to report that there was no one inside--sparking even more debate and speculation on Twitter.
My colleague Stephen Shankland ran a test and found that in a 30-second span, 836 tweets mentioned the word "balloon."
The boy reportedly lives in Fort Collins, Colo., and the balloon was built by his parents, who are avid storm-chasers.
It surfaced somehow amid the Twittering mess that the family had appeared on reality show "Wife Swap," and a video of its three sons singing a rap song has begun to rack up views on YouTube (mildly not-safe-for-work due to lyrics).
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
studying digital media
Well its hard to learn PHP. Visual communication is very interesting. http://insidedigitalmedia.com/ its a graet website for the latest news in media. i always visit this site. well in this weekend there were alot of assignments to complete.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Digital Media
Digital media is making progress day by day. The coming society will be knowledge based and more practical. There are a lot of computer related jobs which were not available 30 years before. It is because of new technologies. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025-5079007.html here is a debate on digital media's future.
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