Crying Migrant Girl & Weather Channel's Immersive Forecast

By David Erickson | June 23, 2018

Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 233

BL and David discuss the iconic photo of the crying migrant girl; Richard Painter’s dumpster fire ad; the Facebook fundraiser to reunite the families Trump has torn apart; the Supreme Court’s ruling requiring a search warrant for police to obtain your GPS location data; the Apple/Oprah alliance; banners replaced with cats; Beyonce & Jay-Z’s new album release; the Weather Channel’s immersive forecasts; Google’s new podcast app; Melania Trump’s trolling jacket; Burger King’s Russian babies offer; an automated firing; the Philly hotdog gun; …and much, much more.

SUBSCRIBE: iTunes or Google Play or Stitcher or iHeart Radio or Amazon Echo or search the Spotify app.

Best Digital Cases

The Backstory of the Crying Migrant Child Photo

Pulitzer Prize winning photographer John Moore says his iconic photo of a two year-old girl screaming while a border patrol agent searched her mother broke his heart.

‘I wanted to stop her crying’: The image of a migrant child that broke a photographer’s heart

Richard Painter’s Dumpster Fire

Painter’s video is drawing a lot of attention on social media, with reactions spanning praise to befuddlement.

Richard Painter’s ‘dumpster fire’ ad is the talk of social media

Largest Fundraiser in Facebook History

A fundraiser to help separated immigrant families raised nearly $20 million this week on Facebook, with 500,000 contributors. The funds go to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES.)

Warrant Required

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to obtain cellphone location information routinely collected by wireless providers.

In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Track Your Cellphone

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span></p> <h3>Apple & Oprah Team Up For New Subscription Service</h3> <p>Apple has joined the streaming war. They signed Oprah for a multi-year deal to produce original videos.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/17468548/oprah-apple-original-programs-videos">Apple and Oprah are teaming up to make videos</a></li> </ul> <h3>Google Has a New Podcast App</h3> <p>The new app represents an ambitious goal: double global podcast listenership. Google has plans to incorporate its AI to offer transcription and translation.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/google-new-podcast-app-diversity">Google Has a New Podcast App. It Also Hopes to Add Diversity to Podcasting</a></li> <li><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.podcasts">Get Google Podcasts for Android</a></li> </ul> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3783" src="https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Google-Podcast-App.png" alt="New Google Podcast App for Android" width="900" height="737" /></p> <h3>Everything You Need to Know About Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Joint Album, <em>Everything Is Love</em></h3> <p>Bey and Jay dropped a surprise video, shot in the Louvre. The nine-song album, complete with a bonus track, was free <a href="http://tidal.com/us">Tidal</a> (which JayZ owns) for two days.</p> <ul> <li>Everything You Need to Know About Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Joint Album, Everything Is Love</li> <li><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/beyonce-jay-everything-is-love-the-carters">37 Hilarious Tweets About Beyoncé And Jay-Z’s Surprise Album</a></li> </ul> <p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kbMqWXnpXcA" width="950" height="534" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen">

Banner Cats

Retargeting you with something you actually want to see.

Immersive Weather Forecast

Spoiler alert: A tornado literally rips apart the studio during a live broadcast.

The Weather Channel’s new storm graphics are totally insane

Worst Digital Cases

Melania Trump’s “I Really Don’t Care” Jacket

On her visit to a Texas shelter for immigrant children, First Lady Melania Trump wore a jacket with “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” written on the back in huge letters. Is she trolling her husband?

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1009895394195726337

DiGiorno & “Trump & The Baby Snatchers”

Maybe be careful about bidding on the word “oven.”

Donald Trump & The Baby Snatchers
Trump and the Baby Snatchers by Charles Blow

Russian Burger King Offers Money to Women Impregnated By World Cup Players

Burger King has apologized for offering a lifetime supply of Whoppers to Russian women who get pregnant by World Cup players. The offer, announced on Russian social media, was immediately called sexist and demeaning.

Burger King says sorry for Russian World Cup pregnancy ad

Automated Firing

Ibrahim Diallo was fired from his job by the company’s AI system, as managers scrambled to figure out the problem and watched him be escorted from the building.

Man Was Fired By His Company’s AI System Due To Human Error, As Managers ‘Stood Powerless’

"It wasn't the first time my key card failed, I assumed it was time to replace it." So began a sequence of events that saw Ibrahim Diallo fired from his job, not by his manager but by a machine. https://t.co/4PeS0fTwBu #AI #ArtificialIntelligence pic.twitter.com/WTRufuScqE

— Rajat N Agrawal, MD (@RajAgra) June 22, 2018

Woman Injured By Flying Hotdog

The Philly’s mascot Phillie Phanatic, fired off his hotdog gun during a game and hit a fan right between the eyes, which sent her to the ER.

Phillie Phanatic Shoots Woman In Face With Hot Dog Gun, Sends Her To Hospital

Shiny New Stuff

Motherlode of Helpful Online Tools

Jeremy Caplan offers 30 a Google Doc replete with useful tools ranging transcription apps to VR & AR tools as well as ways to backup your images.

30 Tools in 60 Minutes

The Interface

An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy.

The Time Well Spent Debate Is Over
The Interface by Casey Newton

A Collection of Pitch Decks That Have Raised Over $1.4 Billion

Links to more than 35 Slideshare decks, including Buffer, Buzzfeed, Air BnB, Contently, Foursquare, Snapchat, Tinder and YouTube. Each deck tells the amount of money raised, and from whom.

Pitch Decks Deconstructed