February 27, 2009
Oh, Twitter! Even senators say the darnedest things on the dynamic compendium of Internet users' stupidest thoughts. "How does one manage a beaver?" asked John McCain mid-pork tirade. More tweets that left us speechless: Senator John McCain, in the course of criticizing wasteful spending, admitted h...
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February 26, 2009
Not a good day for the Twitterati! Dan Abrams found himself stalked by a coworker. Perma-perky PR person Brooke Hammerling got bummed out. And an underling of Tina Brown faced up to an unwelcome chore: Daily Beast West Coast editor Tom Tapp did his laundry at 11 a.m. Reporter-pimping rapscallion Dan...
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Owen Thomas
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February 23, 2009
Today in the magical land of Twitteronia: Jimmy Fallon schmoozed the Twitter-loving press, Ana Marie Cox cried because of Jake Tapper, and a tuna-melt experiment went badly awry. Late Night host Jimmy Fallon uttered Twitter gibberish Quad City Times columnist Melissa Coulter succumbed to caffeine. S...
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February 17, 2009
What was comely Web-video starlet Veronica Belmont thinking about today? How about Chris Nuttall of the Financial Times ? VentureBeat blogger Eric Eldon? Cats, fags, gadgets, and Facebook preoccupied the Twitterati. Mancunian editrix Louise Bolotin recounted her cat's lepidoptivorous habits. Chris N...
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February 12, 2009
Why work when you can Twitter? David Pogue from the New York Times played copy editor, Tina Fey contemplated cookies, and Internet-celebrity expert Paul Carr was just glad to be alive. Self-described "new media whore" Paul Carr wanted everyone to know he was not dead. David Pogue upheld the standard...
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February 11, 2009
This week's question comes from a reader who is facing a dilemma that I am sure is rampant among even the tech savvy creative people out there: am I required to be publicly online in order to get ahead at this point, and if I am, how do I do it well? This week's request was worded so well, I will le...
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February 02, 2009
What's your problem? And why aren't you tweeting about it? Today, everyone from John Lithgow to Peter Kafka joined the bitterati in airing their gripes. Dow Jones subcontractor Peter Kafka bitched about his commute. Greensboro News & Record editor John Robinson bitched about PR people. Space-alien a...
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January 29, 2009
Today's tweets: Ashton Kutcher tried to be more tolerant, the New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones tried to be more zen, and a guy who dropped out of journalism school tried to be more drunk. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was at Davos and you weren't. Self-described J-school dropout Reed Kavne...
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January 21, 2009
What is it with media people? Twitter seems to drive them to reveal what their readers always suspected: They're all a bit dysfunctional, each in his or her own special way. Especially Julia Allison! Wired writer Steven Levy felt so guilty about not tweeting more, he wrote a whole long column about ...
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January 12, 2009
By Lauren Cook: Never has the power of Twitter been more evident than in the last few weeks and months. Once known only by “techies” and early adopters, this micro-blogging site is now slowly infiltrating into the mainstream and more importantly, affecting the way many of us communicate,...
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