By the end of this short talk, there will be 864
more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and
Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? Markham Nolan calls
himself a "literary mercenary." His main responsibility is to sift
through news and information to see what's true and what's not. In the era of
the ubiquitous and immediate cell phone photo, Twitter message and YouTube
video, how do we verify and validate a piece of information arriving, say, from
a region at war or one going through a natural disaster? As the managing editor
of Storyful, that's a question he has to answer daily. "Their mission is to 'pull the news from the noise.'
They have built up reliable communities in a range of countries, so that when
news breaks, they have contacts they can call on to help verify
locally-originated social media content." Watch
the video by CLICKING HERE.
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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