gone viral

[Victor Steinbok]

Assuming this was a blog post, "After the jump" means the same thing as
"below the fold" (dictionary editors--remain vigilant!). Both refer to
the part of the post that is not meant to appear on the blog stream page
and is only visible when you look at the individual post. It's possible
there is some other meaning to this, but it is routing for bloggers who
/have/ this capacity (not all blogs allow this) to post
bandwidth-hogging graphics "after the jump".

     VS-)

On 3/15/2011 9:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> My guess is that "after the jump" means something like "after the spike in
> interest" or perhaps "after the big event itself."
>
> But there's no telling with only one ex. to draw on.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Tom Zurinskas<truespel at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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=2C 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=2C 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

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