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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Viral Video Edition)

Up to now, the hardworking staff has limited The Rumpus to paid advertising in print or on television (still waiting on our first radio spot). But as this piece from techPresident notes, online video advertising is a growth industry in … Continue reading

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“Is Rick Perry Gay?”

Plug “is rick perry” into the Googletron, techPresident says, and “is rick perry gay” is the top search phrase in Google Select: Fun! But true? The hardworking staff tried it ourselves and came up with the same result. TechPresident even … Continue reading

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Facehook In Missouri

Last year the hardworking staff noted the controversy over what the Boston Herald called on its front page: ACEBOOK FLAP Herald lede: Teachers could be disciplined or fired for friending students on Facebook and school administrators would be encouraged to … Continue reading

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‘Twistory’ Lesson For UMass Professor

From TechPresident: University of Massachusetts political science professor Stuart W. Shulman has built software for doing textual analysis on large amounts of data. So when he saw an explosion of Twitter activity around the death of Osama bin Laden, he … Continue reading

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