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Cataño, Puerto Rico 9/11… Directorio de Explosión
Tonight, 12:25am, thousands of Puerto Ricans were awaken by a huge explosion at Gulf’s oil refinery. The night became day, and everyone got on their roofs trying to trace the origins of the flames. Rumors started running online, conspiracy theories, even spontaneous parties took place as ways to cope with the stress.
I’ve dedicated this blog entry to all things Gulf refinery disaster. Here are the links as they become available. You’ll find photos, videos, jokes, and articles that go in depth regarding what happened tonight. Read the official story at Primera Hora’s page, since they were some of the first people from the media who were on it.
The search topic in Twitter is “#explosionpr” http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23explosionpr
The explosion caused an earthquake of 2.8… http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/prp0929602.php#detail
Listen to Univisión’s radio coverage… http://www.univision.com/contentroot/locales/radio/jhtml/NOMETA_stream.jhtml?station=WKAQAM
The actual moment of the explosion, caught on video…
Is that a plane? conspiracy theories?
McDonalds… explosión de sabor.
Kanye West always makes his guest appearance.
I don’t know how this is part of the news coverage, but it is.
Te compras una? Pleneros frente a la explosión en Facebook…
http://radiotime.com/station/s_23401/Noti_Uno_1280.aspx
“You Will Never Know Why” is out!
Today Sweet Trip releases their long-awaited album “You Will Never Know Why.” Here’s some surrealist artwork I did for my personal enjoyment inspired in their music… among other things. Did this using Flash, Photoshop, and my camera.
If you wanna see Sweet Trip live, they’ll be playing this Wednesday (September 30th @9pm) at the Bottom of the Hill venue, in the Mission.
Also, Miike Snow will be visiting Bottom of the Hill 3 days later (this Saturday, October 3rd)… and they’ll be rocking the house as always. A great week for music in San Francisco.
The End Of Twitter? Are Spammers Taking Over?
All good things… or bad things for that matter must come to an end, right? From great trends such as repurposing garden gnomes, to bad ones such as cuddling pet rocks, there comes a moment in which everything becomes obsolete. Is this what is happening to Twitter?
Lately the people who are contacting me on Twitter are not real. They are bots, spammers… entities obsessed in selling me sex or cheap ringtones. Similar to what happened to MySpace just after it peaked it is becoming infected with noise as opposed to real information.
Something I enjoy doing is seeing what topics are peaking, and reading what people say about them. Tonight, most topics led to dead-end type of results. Most tweets such as “Free ringtones #ATT” or “sexy webcams #ATT,” or other wasteful crap was filling the “ecosphere”… and this repeated all throughout the most trendy topics. It seems the dialogue is being killed by all the fake accounts that are born. I wonder what the ratio is now between real users and fake ones at the moment.
Will there be a time when there are more spammers than real people behind the Twitter accounts? Very likely. But let’s go slightly deeper and wonder… why is this? I know I’m always repeating the same thing, but this is just the plain old manifestation of Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of Commons. No good system can ever peak in popularity that doesn’t start sucking because there will always be people abusing that system. When you are unable to filter your community successfully, or isolate it for that matter, these things are bound to happen.
I suggest the Twitter executives to monetize on the community immediately, because it is only a matter of time until a good chunk of the people abandon Twitter, and say hello to Tumblr. Ah, the era of short intensities… keeps getting… shorter.
-Alex
Blame Canada’s Health Care? : Miss-In-Scene 9
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Latest rendition of Miss In Scene. Inspired in the lame selfish argument against universal health care. If you had to stand in line, in exchange for your fellow brother and sister’s life, would you? Is someone’s life so insignificant that your inconvenience can even be used as an argument in this debate? If that’s the case, then I feel sorry for you.
Did I sound too serious over there? Haha, I’m joking. To hell with the poor… they are fat anyway.
-Alex
