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Don't Tweet on My Shoes, I'm Headed for Atlantis
Today's sweetest tweets: CNET's Caroline McCarthy got ready to don a Snuggie. Valleywag alumna Megan McCarthy (no relation) dreamed of Atlantis. David Gregory of Meet the Press succumbed to Twitter peer pressure. And more! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Arland Penchant: ummm...Pompeii actually exists? You can go and read the ancient graffitti in the brothel and everything. more » | Other threads
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Twittered to Distraction
Jennifer 8. Lee saw Cameron Diaz. Ashton Kutcher missed Demi Moore. Choire Sicha dreamed about his therapist. On Twitter, we are all the stars of our own movies. Today's narcissist watch: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Truculent: Any minute now Jenny will start developing her own gravitational field. Put down the chopsticks, Jenny, before you become Jennifer... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
The Thinly Veiled Autobiographical Thriller Is Still King
In your overstuffed Thursday media column: Obama cartoons have big lips, rumored (update: confirmed) layoffs at Incisive Media, John Dickerson's dramatic novel, and more! More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: The whole mess looked so impressive, like the speckled pots and hasty garlic skins left on the stove after a... 17 Responses | Other threads
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Welcome to the Twitternaugural
Are you sick of your friends who can't stop talking about the inauguration? Then you're really going to hate Twitter today. A special edition of the Twitterati to catch up with this morning's chattiness: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by blix: What the hell is a VIP porta-potty? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Life Is Good for the Twitterati
The media live deeply ordinary lives. Okay, deeply ordinary lives in which their bosses buy them caviar. The Twitterati report in with a feast for the senses: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by contradicto: Today I had a diet greek salad for lunch. The "diet" part confused me because it was basically a gyro... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Media Twitterati
We gratuitously mocked Times columnist Nick Kristof's Twitter feed last week. But the truth is that he's in good company. Lots of big-shot media people—including many Gawker "favorites"!—have Twitters, despite the fact that Twitter is proven to destroy journalism. We haven't been paying enough attention to their various tweets about this and that. After the jump, we condense the offering of five famous media twits into bite-sized packages: More »
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Comment by punkthis: Sometimes I feel like the only person who hates the internet. I don't want to put pictures of myself... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Why Twitter Hurts Journalism
You can do a lot in a 140-character Twitter entry, writes John Dickerson at Nieman Reports. And no, the online squib will not spell the end of long form reporting. Dickerson's right that Twitter affords weary political correspondents like himself the ability to share fun anecdotes from the field that would otherwise get cut from proper pieces. Example: "Weare, NH: Audience man to McCain: 'I heard that Hershey is moving plants to Mexico and I'll be damned if I'm going to eat Mexican chocolate.'" But old hack nostalgics have a legitimate point about how this new mode of digital diary-keeping can take its toll. It's the style, not the substance, of journalism that's at issue. More »
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Comment by TechMeister: But, as this article mentions: [tinyurl.com] , we have to separate journalism from infotainment as we are seeing nowadays. Writing about... more » | Other threads
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Pundit Underestimates Clinton
Hilarious Prediction Watch: "The Rezko business is also not likely to hurt [Barack Obama], because his principal rival will probably be Hillary Clinton, and she's not going to bring up the topic of questionable land deals." –Slate's John Dickerson, December 14, 2006.
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By PareeneComment by HowardRoarkLaughed: Hillary Clinton is a big piece of steamy doo-doo. more » | Other threads
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