{"id":2235,"date":"2008-07-31T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:22:41","slug":"6478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/07\/31\/6478\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorpe Reflections on Pausch Widely Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (July 31, 2008) \u2013 Monday\u2019s story on Chuck Thorpe\u2019s reflections on the life of Randy Pausch struck a responsive chord among Internet readers extending well beyond the Evangelical Covenant Church reading family.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPausch, a fellow graduate student of Thorpe\u2019s in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, became famous after giving \u201cThe Last Lecture\u201d speech on September 18, 2007. The speech, which he gave when it became clear he was dying of pancreatic cancer, became a YouTube sensation and has been seen by more than 3.5 million people. He died Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tubeinator website, which measures the popularity of various videos posted on the Internet, showed the Covenant News Service story written by Stan Friedman as second on a list of 974 online news articles related to Pausch\u2019s death and The Last Lecture video, just ahead of similar online news coverage by <em>BusinessWeek<\/em> and <em>USA Today<\/em>. To see the listing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tubeinator.com\/tubenews\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit Tubeinator<\/a> (given the immediacy of the Internet, rankings change frequently).<\/p>\n<p>To read Monday\u2019s news story, either visit the link on the Tubeinator ranking or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item6468\" target=\"_blank\">Thorpe Reflections on Pausch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2235&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (July 31, 2008) \u2013 Monday\u2019s story on Chuck Thorpe\u2019s reflections on the life of Randy Pausch struck a responsive chord among Internet readers extending well beyond the Evangelical Covenant Church reading family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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