June 28, 2007
Day Around The Bay
--One person is dead after a Caltrain hit a car in Palo Alto this afternoon. [CBS 5, Merc News.]
--The Lauryn Hill show sucked. [The Chron, All Shook Down, the Inside Bay Area Buzz blog.]
--What's Berkeley going to do after this Supreme Court ruling? [The Trib.]
--Blogging from the iPhone line in Walnut Creek. [Contra Costa Times.]
--A fight over a local grad student's blog post about racial and class divisions on MySpace and Facebook. [92510.]
--For the SFist tipster following this story -- the Berkeley biker hit by a car in Walnut Creek has died. [Daily Cal.]
--The current world champion hot dog eater, local boy Joey Chestnut, says the Japanese guy Kobayashi is afraid to face him at the hot dog competition on July 4. [KTVU.]
Picture by Shannon K from the SFist Flickr stream.
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The myspace vs facebook essay should be required reading for anyone interested in class and teen culture in America: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
And I think calling her a grad student doesn't do her justice. Dana Boyd has been at the cutting edge of the sociology of the online world for years. If you want to get deep into what this whole internet thing means for society, her blog is a great read: http://www.zephoria.org/
there's nothing a those cute, brilliant, geeky girl. *swoon*
(NotSFist)Jeremy