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Huffington post. Every speaker's nightmare is an audience full of hecklers who feel free to shout out comments the way sports fans shout at their TVs ("You call that a triple axel?!? ") and bloodthirsty ancient Romans shouted at gladiators ("You call yourself a Thracian?!?) Unfortunately, that's exactly what's happening, all too frequently, when cutting edge conferences include a Twitter "backchannel" -- a real-time electronic screen behind the speaker that displays a rolling stream of the audience's tweeted comments. That particular interactive feature is designed to create an impromptu online "community" around the event and to encourage conversation and interaction. But it can also backfire with results that range from mildly distracting to downright disastrous.

Even the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is not immune to being heckled via his own invention. That's what happened at Web 2.0 Expo, a recent three day conference in New York that brought together some of the best minds in digital media. Reuter. National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts.

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Reason Magazine. 2009/Times/photography. 2009 in Focus: Best of Times photography Memorable moments captured by Los Angeles Times photographers in 2009 U.S. Forest Service firefighters let the Station fire burn along Angeles Crest Highway in the early morning hours in La Canada Flintridge. Backfires were set to keep flames from the mammoth blaze away from the foothill communities, including La Canada and La Crescenta. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / August 29, 2009)Related: • More photos:Southern California wildfires • Panorama:A Tujunga neighborhood ravaged by the Station fire R&B star Usher rests his hand on Michael Jackson's coffin as he sings Jackson's "Gone Too Soon" during the star's memorial service at Staples Center.

Jackson died June 25. Sgt. Kobe Bryant celebrates after the Lakers defeated the Orlando Magic, 99-86, in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to win the 15th championship for the franchise. President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office on Jan. 20 accompanied by his family. Washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington ar. Soho Press (soho_press) Hawaii/Starbulletin.com. Newjersey. The Scavenger : A boy drowns, a mother tweets. TwitterhackerUSATODAY. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph news. Nytimes. Newjersey. Delta Launch Report | WISE observatory sheds l. WISE observatory sheds lens cap and takes in starlight BY JUSTIN RAYSPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: December 29, 2009 NASA's new cosmic mapper successfully jettisoned a protective lens cover Tuesday, opening its infrared eyes to Universe for an unprecedented survey in 2010.

A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket delivered the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft into polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on December 14. The cover was secured atop the Thermos-like bottle structure that holds the observatory's telescope and state-of-the-art detectors in supercold frozen hydrogen. The cap was designed to keep out light during the early days of the mission while controllers ensured the spacecraft's orientation system would operate correctly, preventing an accidental blinding by looking at the sun or down at Earth. The one-month checkout and preparatory period for the observatory achieved its key milestone when the cover was commanded to separate at about 5:30 p.m.

Woman's blood alcohol content topples state records. A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal. A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45, on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported stolen in Rapid City.

Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South Dakota’s legal limit of .08 percent. Checks with local and state labs where blood-alcohol levels are tested suggest Engle’s reading may be the highest ever recorded in South Dakota, Sondreal said. Sondreal said a state chemist recalled a sample that tested .53, but nothing higher, in his more than 30 years on the job. Dr. Robert Looyenga, who recently retired from the Rapid City Police Department’s forensic laboratory, told Sondreal that the highest blood-alcohol sample he tested measured .56 percent. "The most beautiful thing I've ever seen" - Roger Ebert's Journa. When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960).

Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. That would have been sometime in the 1970s. Maybe the 1980s. For sure, the 1990s. Without a doubt, before he made his Cannes entry, "Film: Socialisme. " The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away.

Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today. " Continue reading → Thank you.

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