contagious media research for 9/30

drug companies cook books, mislead doctors: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/drug-companies/

the first piece i picked felt off from the normal media pieces. While it did have relavence, it was more of a medical piece than a media piece. The corperations producing medicine have been putting positive spins on medicine that has many bad side effects. Because of this doctors are mis-prescribing patients. Though the data handed out may not be entirely truthful, the medicine might still help patients, but the doctors should have all information needed before they're able to prescribe certain medicines.

I don't feel that in storywise, this won't help my Meme at all. In fact, the idea i got from this was to incorperate news to the tweeting... twerping. the idea is that the twerping doesn't have to be informative, but the idea that it can can also be implimented.

2)all you need to know to tweet on twitter: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07basics.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

i figured i'd pick this read because what better way to research my meme than to look at how twittering works. Since my meme will be a parody of twitter, i thought looking at the different things you could use was kind of interesting to update twitter. It might be interesting to provoke action with my meme via forced interaction (or some planted twerpers), but that still has to be decided upon.

with all the phone apps, computer apps, and apps for your apps, it's hard to not have a way to update your twitter, with this link, i learned many different ways to cover my tweets, through phones, excel, outlook, firefox and dashboard. Each had thier own ups and down, and i may play with the idea of working with some of these in the future.