Shortly after Sarah Palin announced her resignation, our Twitter feed blew up with reactions from the media world. Here's a quick look at some of the responses.
Last week I grabbed my Flip cam and went onto the set of TLC's "What Not to Wear" to hang out with hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly. This season ...
We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 fee. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.
The ruling Islamists appear to have forgotten their own history, and the role that technology can play in a popular uprising.
Last week, author Alice Hoffman issued an apology to a reviewer she attacked via Twitter. But an apology, by its nature, should focus on what you did wrong and not place blame on the other.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports that the United Nations-backed intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel attacks.
People are becoming overly reliant and falsely dependent upon emails, texting and the internet as a primary means of communicating.
Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.
Bad reviews, as any writer will tell you, are the price of doing business. Put your work out there in the world, and you can be sure that someone will rise up and declare "UR BOOK SUX!"
The prolific author of more than 20 books fired off more than 20 angry tweets and Facebook updates following a mediocre review of her latest tome, The Story Sisters, in her hometown newspaper the Boston Globe.
The general public doesn't mourn the deaths of less-famous people who might have continued to also do great things if they hadn't left us before their time.
In his book Free, Chris Anderson gathered the wood and laid out the fire by saying news, information, music, and films are going to be free.
In a short time, this young man's poignant angst has spread around the world, probably to millions, in less time than it took me to write this.
The collective naval-gazing of reporters and publishers far exceeds the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry and streaming video tanked television ratings, because when a crisis hits the writers it's what we write about.
With traditional media facing extinction and a disheartened, disinterested public, Toilet Paper Messaging (TPM) has emerged as one of the most effective marketing tools out there.
With ever-tightening restrictions on international press organizations in Iran, social networking sites have continued to play a critical role in imparting news from and about Iran.
While checking my morning emails and going about my usual business a few days ago, I received a frightening alert: my Gmail account was reaching near capacity.
My mind wanders and twitches from one topic to another, buzzing and gurgling with things to do, people to see, wisps of possibilities for the future and images of the past.
Our culture puts celebrities on a pedestal and adores them, we seem to get more satisfaction when they fall -- and the harder the better.
Social networking sites and blogs are naturally emotional and subjective, but a healthy democracy needs also to have a dispassionate journalism that is able to question the motives of sources.
Michael Jackson's death increased Internet usage by more than 4.2 million worldwide users per minute, in comparison to the normal 2 million visitors...
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When I read this, I had to write about it and reference this very timely post. I was just done reading about "sexting" in my local community among teens. The topic here with the Twitter pics disturbed me--and I'm a pretty open minded person. It bothered me most because kids think celebrities are ROLE MODELS and here they are half naked...or more....and tweeting this all over. Yuck.
Kids will be doing this next..."Twexting"..........
Cheryl Phillips
http://thedailyblonde.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-14552-Providence-Social-Media-Examiner
Tasteful nudity as art...
http://community.ovationtv.com/_Pale-Half-Moon/photo/2925572/16878.html
I love the picture of Lenny Kravitz. He's welcome to tweet as many nekkid pictures as he wants, as far as I'm concerned.
I've seen better nude pictures of Lance Armstrong, though.
To Katy Perry:
"I'll take your tray now mam."
I guess this is what you would call shameless self promotion.
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