I’ll be blogging more about all the web 2.0 stuff being discussed today at the CASE Annual Conference for Senior Communications and Marketeing Professionals. But first, a harrowing example of how web 2.0 activities — in this case, blogging — gives the mainstream news media another stream from which to draw information and to provide context.
Story via Canadian Press:
(CP) – In an online blog, Kimveer Gill includes a photo of a tombstone with his name printed on it – below it the phrase: “Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse.”
The blog, posted on an online hub of goth culture, paints a dark portrait of the 25-year-old man published reports have identified as the trenchcoat-wearing gunman who opened fire on students at Montreal’s Dawson College Wednesday, killing one and injuring 19 others.
Gill’s image gallery, which contains more than 50 photos, depicts the young man in various poses holding a Baretta CX4 Storm semi-automatic rifle and donning a long black trenchcoat and combat boots.
“His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death,” he wrote on his vampirefreaks.com profile.
“He is not a people person. He has met a handfull (sic) of people in his life who are decent.” But he writes that he finds the vast majority to be “worthless, no good, kniving, betraying lieing (sic), deceptive.”
The last of Gill’s six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before the gunmen was shot dead after the college shooting.
In the latest one, Gill extols the virtues of a morning quaff of whisky. Other posts Wednesday deal with topics as mundane as dry contact lenses, purple freezies, and eating eggs and toast for breakfast.
Eerie.
Full story.
Andy writes! 