Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr. -
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…
Dan Harmon Poops: Fine, we're geniuses but not EVIL geniuses. -
(this is a post for Community fans, clarifying an odd rumor about a recent episode. No need to read more if you’re not absurdly obsessed with our show).
I have been trying not to read reviews, and especially the discussions under them, this season, as I have become emotionally fused with our TV…
Dan Harmon Poops: My Community Theme Lyrics for Approval -
The 88 are recording an extended version of the Community theme song for our UPCOMING SOUNDTRACK RELEASE and I just found out the band is contractually obligated to submit any new lyrics to the studio for approval. I have no involvement, I say let a band be a band, but I submitted these for my own…
If Mitt Romney and a few Republican senators get their way, employers could be making women’s health care decisions for them.
The New York Post published an interview with Adam Carolla on Sunday in which he said, among other things, “dudes are funnier than chicks,” and, regarding writing for television, “they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they’re always the least funny on the writing staff.”
I disagree,…
daniel sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil -
Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much…
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Twitter Ideas: A work in progress by @sreenet
[shortcut for this page at http://bit.ly/twitterideas ]Suggestions welcome: sree[at]sree.net
WORKSHOP: FOUR THURSDAYS IN OCTOBER (+1 optional session!), Oct 7, 14, 21 & 28; 6:30 - 9 p.m, Columbia J-school: Social Media for Journalists, Bloggers & Media Professionals - register here
MY FEED: @sreenet - http://www.twitter.com/sreenet
MY SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIDE: http://bit.ly/sreesoc - tips, handouts, tools and more
MY WORKSHOPS: http://bit.ly/workshops - events around the country
MY SOCIAL MEDIA SYLLABUS: http://bit.ly/socmediaskills - a five-week course at Columbia Journalism SchoolThis is meant to be a way to introduce Twitter to skeptics and newbies and is NOT comprehensive.
==>A big welcome to the TechCrunch readers who are here thanks to the mention in @vwadhwa’s piece on why Twitter is his only social-networking tool.
[Many thanks to @NatIves for putting me on Ad Age’s 25 media people to follow. Also, thank you to OnlineSchools for putting me on Top 100 Twitterers in Academia. Armed with these, I can… well, what, exactly?]
*** MY TWO WEBCASTS WITH ALL-STAR TWEETING JOURNOS:
http://bit.ly/columbiajtw2
Intros to Twitter:
- See this collection of “10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates (if #5 doesn’t inspire you to use Twitter, perhaps this will)
- Mashable’s collection of all things Twitter: twitter.mashable.com
- Cyberjournalist’s Top 10 amazing, funny, useful Twitter links
- 100Twt.com: List of 100 most popular people on Twitter + their real-time tweets
- OutlawDesignBlog: 30 essential Twitter tutorials for newbies & experts
- Read lots of useful Twitter tips at Twitter_Tips
- Listen to my Jan. 2009 webcast/podcast with terrific journos, “Twitter for Journalists: Everything You Wanted to Know About Twitter But Were Afraid to Ask” + see live coverage of my April 2009 workshop on “Twitter for Skeptics”
- NYT’s love letter to Twitter, “Putting Twitter’s World To Use”
- WSJ interview with Twitter founders (and backstory)
- NY Magazine: The Twitter Approval Matrix (“Our deliberately oversimplified guide to whose tweets are worth following”)
- David Carr explains why Twitter will endure | Vivek Wadhwa on why Twitter is the only socmedia tool he uses
- Twitter books:
Breaking News
- BreakingNews: “Your most credible Twitter news source. First in online breaking news!”
- BreakingTweets.com: “world news, Twitter-style; hyperlocal gone global”
- Almost.at: “Following People at Real World Events in Real-Time”
- GoogleNews: now on Twitter
- CNNbrk: CNN’s breaking news account, originally created by a viewer
- Reuters: Reuters on Twitter
- DrudgeReport: yep, he’s here, too.
- Understand Twitter trends with WhatTheTrend.com, which explains the sometimes cryptic items on search.twitter.com
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You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be misplacing your talents.
The internet, at this time in history, is the greatest client assignment of all time. The Western world is porting itself over to the web in mind and…
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You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be misplacing your talents.
The internet, at this time in history, is the greatest client assignment of all time. The Western world is porting itself over to the web in mind and…
(Source: pieratt)