are x-factor clips overly manufactured to go viral?

In a social media course I attended yesterday, we had a look at This X Factor / Daryl Markham audition clip, or a slightly abridged version of it. It seemed a well put together reality piece, but when I was rewatching it while working on another monitor, I noticed how much the swelling music, and …

The future of copy-pasting on news sites?

37 signals shows off the new “Smart” pasting at The New Yorker site. When you copy something to the clipboard, the URL of the article, and a “read more” link are appended to the excerpt. In general I like the idea of having this option, but I would prefer to be able to permanently disable …