I overheard a woman in a bar recently ask her friend "How is it possible Ashton Kutcher still has like, millions of twits following him?"

"Is that really what you call them?" her friend asked, "Twits?"

While 2011 further galvanized Twitter as a global tool, a voice...

I am thinking of three celebrities: The first, cousin to a global songwriting sensation, left his wife in a mental institution and shacked up with a Hollywood gossip columnist. The second had himself court-martialed, married a near-tween cousin and to this day inspires Goth culture. The third challenged his critics...

For me, dirty limericks were a more poignant recruiting tool for prose than Keats. My gut is that Keats would be fine with this, which is why I am surprised when the word "inaccessible" is applied to poetry. Few writing forms are better engineered for our snap-synapse driven e-culture. And...