gone viral

[Jonathan Lighter]

See what I mean?

JL

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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-)
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> 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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