Fernando Alfonso III
Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.
USDA beefs up Twitter presence
Each state will have its own account to broadcast food recalls.
On Mar 6, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
Leaders of hacker group LulzSec brought down
Five members of the hactivist collective were arrested and charged on Tuesday, thanks to information from the group’s former leader.
Canvas highlights the Frogman’s take on Michelle Obama’s tennis moment
Michelle Obama is a hit on Canvas
On Mar 5, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
Lester Chambers sings the blues about lack of royalties
People on Facebook and Reddit are sympathetic to this sixties singer who is broke and hasn’t gotten his roylaties.
The best illustrations from Draw Something
The social-drawing game has quickly become the top download in Apple’s app store. Here are some of our favorite creations thus far.
Would you rather go to Hogwarts or become a Pokémon Trainer?
On Canvas, it’s not what you answer, but how you do it that matters/
On Mar 2, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
Worth 1,000 words: Neil deGrasse Tyson
In the inaugural edition of the Daily Dot’s Twitter-based, word-cloud series, we look at the cosmic revelations of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
On Canvas, a place for inspired art
It’s not all about the remixes.
On Mar 1, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
Breach in China’s Great Firewall allows taste of Western sites
For China’s Internet users, freedom means using Facebook.
Conspiracy theories cloud Andrew Breitbart’s death on Twitter
On Twitter, the masses have been unkind to the media pioneer, who died Thursday morning of natural causes.
Blogger Shane Burcaw overcomes adversity with laughter
To help raise awareness about spinal muscular atrophy, Burcaw started the inspirational and informative nonprofit Laughing at My Nightmare.
On Feb 29, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
Reddit stands up for “Bully” documentary
More than 130,000 people have signed an online petition to help change the rating of a documentary about teen bullying from R to PG-13.
Twitter ordered to turn over user data after threats to Bachmann
Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that an overview of the user’s Twitter page was warranted to protect “those who seriously aspire to the federal government’s highest office.”
On Feb 28, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
New York Times opens the Lively Morgue, a Tumblr for the ages
The new Tumblr blog features historic photos from the iconic newspaper dating back to 1896.
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen makes a mess at the Oscars
Borat star courts controversy.
On Feb 27, 2012 by Fernando Alfonso III
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