Monthly Archives: April 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-28

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  • RT @Info_Activism Today, Facebook removed users' ability to control who can see their interests and personal info. http://bit.ly/diIzUt #
  • I've never heard so much chatter in the newsroom about Facebook as I have today about the new Network News feature http://ow.ly/1BqXf #fb #
  • Wash Press Club Fdn honors a dear colleague RT @TonyFratto: Lifetime Achievement to Dorothy Gilliam – first black woman to report for WaPo. #
  • Gotta make time tonight to read this: Steven Hatfill talks to the Atlantic about the anthrax investigation http://ow.ly/1BwaM #
  • Prolly approp that the head means zip 2 me RT @thegarance: WSJ NYC launches, cheekily. "Drill, Baby, Drill: Massive Machine Arrives on UES" #
  • Ah, the buzzard of knowledge just pooped on my head. UES=Upper East Side! Palin! The disconnect! Hahahaha. How wonderfully droll the WSJ is. #
  • RT @CapitalismNow: Washington Post vice chairman Bo Jones on pay walls and Politico http://bit.ly/8ZWuZm #
  • Release the hounds!! RT @jfdulac: Great question posed by my editor: Is it ever okay to unpublish a story? http://is.gd/bK17A #
  • Major kudos to @pvolpe, @dmbsarah, @voilawithemily and dozens more for successful launch of the new Post Politics pg http://ow.ly/1DYG9 #

The view from the executive floor

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Bo Jones, the chairman of the Post and the vice chairman of the parent company, had some interesting things to say about pay walls over the weekend at Harvard. (Ira Stoll listened and took note for Seeking Alpha.)

In short, they ain’t coming to these parts anytime soon.

He said that newspapers that had tried to establish “pay walls” around certain content with a perceived high value – the Los Angeles Times on entertainment news, the Dallas Morning News for its coverage of the football Cowboys – had eventually removed them. He said the Post would “watch and see what happens before we jump into something like that.”

Okay then.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-21

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  • Taking a good idea & rendering it absurd RT @alysonfooter: Every Astro will wear No. 42 tmrw in honor of Jackie Robinson. #
  • In other words, a copy editor worth the title RT @romenesko: Mercilessly precise Roanoke Times copy editor … http://is.gd/bvOgb #
  • Rock critics lose a powerful voice RT @ebertchicago: Jim DeRogatis leaves Sun-Times to teach http://j.mp/9oTCnZ #
  • Fountains of Wayne's next album? Later this year … maybe, sez Adam. Hmph. http://ow.ly/1AuVY #
  • RT @dceiver: Hey, so, I think you can maybe put Theodore back in goal, now, if you wanted! #caps #canadiens #
  • Now that Twenty20 cricket has two big scalps — Allen Stanford and Shashi Tharoor — time for ESPN to come calling? http://ow.ly/1Avlo #
  • Let's see: Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch. But not your iPhone 4G. Big whoops! http://bit.ly/cVg36q (via @ethanklapper) #
  • This is very bad news at my house — WaPo: FDA intends to crack down on the amt of salt in many foods http://ow.ly/1AwWb #
  • A Rockville school remembers its honored dead, but students have largely forgotten the war http://ow.ly/1Ax8g Photos: http://ow.ly/1Ax99 #
  • Almost half of all U.S. pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned — 7 of 10 among unmarried women in 20s http://bit.ly/c48UMu (via @Lefsetz) #
  • More from that link: Almost half of unintended pregnancies result fm contraceptive failures. #
  • Crawford, TX, has returned to the small, forgotten town it used to be (but the Coffee Station endures!) http://ow.ly/1B2uK #
  • Hey @pandora – one guster song a day is plenty. Four in 50 minutes is really making me hate those guys. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-14

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  • 3 social media that @sreenet doesn't use: Foursquare, Google Buzz, Google Wave — VALIDATION!! #
  • Cool tip from @sreenet: spend time with @twiangulate – find mutual friends/followers btwn twitterers. #
  • Good read! RT @alysonfooter: Why everyone loves Jeff Bagwell — from a teammate's perspective: http://bit.ly/cdOBU9 #
  • Answer to a question I've actually asked out loud: Who IS that woman in the Progressive insurance ads? http://bit.ly/asFbHk #
  • Fire on track at Metro Center, per on-train anncment. Red line is single-tracking: delays fm Medical Ctr to Judiciary #wmata #metro #redline #
  • Great morning to be cooling my heels for 90 minutes on a Metro train. Thanks, wmata! #
  • Never in my long career have I edited more copy than I did today, thanks to stevens/stupak/srlc. I'm off reading for the wknd. #
  • I'm off reading, but because you're not, I recommend this most highly RT @ebertchicago: A London hotel passes http://j.mp/cNDIZy #
  • Diplos must be on move. DC traffic is suddenly stopped dead at numerous intersxions west of convntn ctr. #
  • RT @Jordanfabian: Pulitzer heds. Wapo: Washington Post wins 4 Pulitzers. NYT: Pulitzer Prizes Are Announced. #