Many of the people who commented on the post had changed their profile pictures to show portraits of the Syrian leader or his father, also named Hafez, who ruled the country for three decades before Bashar al-Assad took power in 2000.
Retweets (RT) and favorites in Twitter, Likes and comments in FriendFeed and Facebook, posting shortened links that connect friends and followers back to the source post, have changed our behavior and empowered our role in defining the evolution of the connectivity and dissemination of information.
If The Denver Post had changed or altered a quote, the political significance would not be the same, and a correction would surely have been written.
"The goal posts have changed," says Jeff Barrett, founder of Heavenly Records, the label that discovered and signed bands such as Manic Street Preachers, Doves, Saint Etienne and, in the last year, Stealing Sheep, Toy and Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs.
Oxford is still waiting to fill its poetry post, and has changed to its voting system to prevent a repeat of this year's election chaos.
And for the runner of the popular account @emmastudies with 139k followers, 20-year-old Emma studygramsng studygrams has changed her habits entirely.
A video interview with union leader and garment worker in Dhaka, Nazma Aktar, reveals the hard-hitting conclusion that despite the accords and alliances that sprung up post Rana Plaza, little has changed.
Of course, our post-9/11 world has changed airport romance.
Post-Beijing, life has changed as much for Gosling as for his wife.
