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Taser Boy, aka Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student who was literally shocked by campus cops (video here) during a rowdy Q&A session with Sen. John Kerry on Monday, better enjoy his 15 minutes of fame. Such notoriety is fleeting, though the episode underscores the paradigm that defines our hyper-media-savvy times. Meyer’s Tasering was real and was surely painful (just ask the executives at Taser International), but his antics were apparently also designed to generate online video and launch his name through the blogosphere.
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