gone viral

[Tom Zurinskas]

You'd thnk "viral newscasting" or "gone viral" would be a bad thing.  See below.
 
"It now is a virtual law of viral newsgathering: Once a major, newsworthy event happens, the world of social media--Facebook, Twitter and the like--will send compelling broadcast footage of that event caroming through cyberspace.
And that's definitely been the pattern with the horrendous earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan. After the jump, a few of the videos that have gone viral over the past few days."
 
I don't know what "after the jump" means.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
The FREE English-based phonetic converters, URL and text , are at truespel.com


 
 





 
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:34:08 -0400
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> spring training (OED 1897)
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