Comments on: Tragedy at Virginia Tech: The Blogosphere Reacts http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/ Web producer, writer, online media cultist. That's how I roll. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Eric Berlin Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:42:26 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/#comment-184 Soo, it seems this is the case from what we know about his background. I wonder if this terrible event will help people to step in with other disturbed young people. Unfortunately in the United States the tendency is to not interfere. Soo, it seems this is the case from what we know about his background. I wonder if this terrible event will help people to step in with other disturbed young people. Unfortunately in the United States the tendency is to not interfere.

]]> By: soo uner tongwe http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/comment-page-1/#comment-183 soo uner tongwe Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:41:09 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/#comment-183 The basis of the crazed shooter's character will be(if we truly find out)an upbringing filled with all kinds of abuse; mental, physical and sexual. The formation of what his mind has gone through is fully based on horrible actions that was noticed by strangers and should of been obvious to the family members whether they were the cause of his actions or not thank you The basis of the crazed shooter’s character will be(if we truly find out)an upbringing filled with all kinds of abuse; mental, physical and sexual.

The formation of what his mind has gone through is fully based on horrible actions that was noticed by strangers and should of been obvious to the family members whether they were the cause of his actions or not

thank you

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]]> By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Eric Berlin Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:17:38 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/#comment-181 MG - I didn't find it offensive, and in fact I think I was reacting more to the emotion of the story than anything else. I for one love looking at social news sites and how they differ from one another, so I think that aspect in this case helped to drive home (for me) how horrific this story is, that I personally wasn't able to look at it that way. MG – I didn’t find it offensive, and in fact I think I was reacting more to the emotion of the story than anything else. I for one love looking at social news sites and how they differ from one another, so I think that aspect in this case helped to drive home (for me) how horrific this story is, that I personally wasn’t able to look at it that way.

]]> By: Kate Zimmermann http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Kate Zimmermann Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:50:13 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/#comment-180 It's amazing how transparent the development of the story was from social to mainstream media. You can see journalists from NBC, NPR, etc, using blog comments and facebook forums to try to find eyewitnesses.: http://searchviews.com/archives/2007/04/virginia_tech_shootings.php Also, it should be noted that the false identification in Facebook (as reported by Wired) was almost immediately corrected by other students participating in the forum. It’s amazing how transparent the development of the story was from social to mainstream media. You can see journalists from NBC, NPR, etc, using blog comments and facebook forums to try to find eyewitnesses.:

http://searchviews.com/archives/2007/04/virginia_tech_shootings.php

Also, it should be noted that the false identification in Facebook (as reported by Wired) was almost immediately corrected by other students participating in the forum.

]]> By: MG Siegler http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/comment-page-1/#comment-179 MG Siegler Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:47:51 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/04/17/tragedy-at-virginia-tech-the-blogosphere-reacts/#comment-179 Hey Eric - yeah I didn't mean to come off as sounding unsympathetic of the situation (I'm still watching the coverage of it right now), I simply saw the story where one site seemed shocked that Newsvine could beat Digg to a news story and felt compelled to comment that people shouldn't be reading Digg for breaking news...I tried to put as little about the incident that brought this up as possible, but obviously it's a little hard to avoid today. I just did a new post based on the coverage i'm watching where geraldo is searching facebook for possible suspects, no joke. I think this is pretty ridiculous. Anyway, sorry if I offended anyone with the Digg/Breaking News post. Clearly this is a tragedy and it wasn't my intent to play it down or make light of it. Hey Eric – yeah I didn’t mean to come off as sounding unsympathetic of the situation (I’m still watching the coverage of it right now), I simply saw the story where one site seemed shocked that Newsvine could beat Digg to a news story and felt compelled to comment that people shouldn’t be reading Digg for breaking news…I tried to put as little about the incident that brought this up as possible, but obviously it’s a little hard to avoid today.

I just did a new post based on the coverage i’m watching where geraldo is searching facebook for possible suspects, no joke. I think this is pretty ridiculous.

Anyway, sorry if I offended anyone with the Digg/Breaking News post. Clearly this is a tragedy and it wasn’t my intent to play it down or make light of it.

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