SPORTS: Max Hall and BYU Students Behaving Badly

Dec 04, 2009 6 Comments by Jim Dalrymple

In the past few days, I’ve noticed some of my friends joining a Facebook group called “Max Hall said what everyone was thinking.” Max Hall is, of course, BYU’s quarterback and the group refers to these comments (taken from the group’s page) that he made after the game last Saturday:
I don’t like Utah. In fact, [...]

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TECH: The Decline and Fall of the Facebook Empire

Oct 26, 2009 3 Comments by Jim Dalrymple

Friday morning I thought my Internet connection had been disrupted. My Facebook home page looked all wrong and surely, I thought, Facebook wouldn’t have tried yet another unwelcome “update.” After expectantly refreshing the page a dozen times, however, I discovered I was wrong; America’s favorite social networking site had been ransacked once again by it’s [...]

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TECH: The Emergence Of New Media (And More Rhombus Love)

Sep 03, 2009 No Comments by Steve Pierce

Yesterday, Rhombus was prominently featured in an excellent Daily Universe article on the re-emergence of Michael Jackson into pop culture relevance. Today, we’re at it again in an equally excellent feature, written by DU web editor Alexa Lee, on the burgeoning new media movement, of which we represent a tiny sliver. Once again, prepare yourself [...]

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TECH: How Twitter Is Changing The World

Jun 29, 2009 No Comments by Ben Wagner

I was sitting in my cubicle at work on Thursday afternoon, trying out Twhirl (a great Adobe Air-based desktop Twitter client) when across my Twitter feed came a flurry of tweets about the death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. I had barely finished reading the tweet when the news began to spread through [...]

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