Monthly Archives: March 2011

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-30

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  • Yikes! Two midnight flights into National Airport have to land w/o help from control tower, which had gone radio-silent http://ow.ly/4l7zg #
  • the 1st Aflac commercial w/o @RealGilbert as the duck — pretty darn clever response ad http://ow.ly/4lUv4 #
  • Ack, she's right — I got fooled by a rerun with a new ending card MT @chaulab: @mrbutterworth commercial debuted 5 years ago. #
  • #ff shoutout for @ericathas (his tweets are always worth the click-thru) & @ethanklapper (shares breaking news faster than @breakingnews). #
  • RT @philip_elliott: WASHINGTON (AP) _ White House official: Obama to give speech to nation Monday explaining decisions on Libya war #
  • I shld buy a book from new owners of Politics/Prose to atone for my faulty tweet re. Lissa Muscatine. Maybe this book: http://ow.ly/4o4VY #
  • Citing 1st Amendment, a Frederick brewer sues for right to sell a beer it calls Raging Bitch http://ow.ly/4o9wL // Madison wept #
  • My 1st NYT story on the meter is a painful read — tracing the decline of UH basketball http://ow.ly/4oa3l @uhpres @f4rw @campbellchron #
  • It's not just Strike Eagles above Libya, but also low-flying AC-130s and A-10s, taking aim on ground convoys http://ow.ly/4okN8 #
  • George Clinton and P-Funk will play Memorial Day weekend in … Rockville??!! http://ow.ly/4onof (via @rockvillepatch) #rkv #
  • Taxpayers will likely take a hit from Harry & David's bankruptcy reorg http://ow.ly/4onHE #
  • A powerful reconstruction of the day Japan thought it was prepared for http://ow.ly/4pbL9 #
  • Rebuffed by conservative House Republicans on a budget deal, Boehner is now reaching out to Democrats http://ow.ly/4pbPW #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-23

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  • Agreed! I wish I were back in Vegas. RT @thefix: Resolved: Tomorrow and Friday are the two best days of the year. Wall to wall hoops. #
  • NYT journalism def worth 60 cents/day RT @tjortenzi MT @mebates: NYT #Paywall is $195/yr. I read 20 stories/day! #
  • RT @Milbank In observance of St. Patrick's Day, the House of Representatives is devoting its entire day to shenanigans. #
  • 4/day — fewer than i'd thought RT @lheron: How many NYT articles did you read this month? Find out here: http://nyti.ms/i6PGmQ #
  • RT @jonauer: Hard to believe it's already been a year…Miss you, Alex. http://tinyurl.com/6xbajff #
  • NYT: Popular stereotype of college as a hive of lesbian experimentation may be wrong. http://ow.ly/4gXaH Ya think? Popular stereotype?? #
  • Note to self: Be on the lookout for flying red powder RT @UHpres Today is Holi, festival of colors in India. #
  • WAMU building a TBD pipeline? 3rd hire this wk MT @stevebuttry: @nathasha joins WAMU: http://bit.ly/gi1Rc4 #
  • I was thinking Law & Order … RT @vijayravindran: Wow, Lululemon murder in Bethesda takes a Cold Case-esque turn… http://wapo.st/gKYDV6 #
  • But JT3 looks good in his Dove commercials RT @thefix: This is a failure of preparation and execution that I have rarely witnessed. #hoyas #
  • Way to go, Internet — crushing the spirits of 13-year-olds is such a worthwhile use of your power http://ow.ly/4iYid #
  • New releases fm NYT comes >4x faster RT @pwthornton: "Unlimited access to the NYT costs four times more than Netflix " (via @russ_walker) #
  • Discount this for bias if you like, but today's WaPo coverage of Libya – both reporting and op-eds – was just tremendous. #
  • When Boeing sneezes, Washington catches a cold. What's the opposite? RT @EverettHerald: Boeing hiring 100 people/week. http://bit.ly/hcEkxc #
  • Justice Dept. defense of fired Muslim teacher prompts questions of whether something else is going on http://ow.ly/4kiWR #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-16

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  • Impossible to exaggerate David Broder's influence and generosity in Post newsroom. He lifted us all up. I will miss him dearly. #
  • Jealous x2. RT @lheron: So nice to be in a brainstorming session with @pvolpe again. I've missed that. #
  • Why have all the iPad 2 reviews just hit the web in the last hour? A picture explains all (via @jsnell) http://flic.kr/p/9pfvsw #
  • Two years after @ianshapira wrote about aggregation outrage (http://ow.ly/4bWXx), @nytkeller offers up an amen http://ow.ly/4bWVF #
  • Some of the smartest journos I know have teamed up on a future-journalism project. You shld check it out http://ow.ly/4c1Ql #
  • Getting so that old-school Vegas means Circus Circus #muertelasvegas MT @johnnykats: Sahara closing May 16 http://t.co/vFswPyd #
  • Just checking: You are following @chicoharlan to keep track of Fukushima, right? @rickmaese is heading north too. #japan #
  • Twitter fires warning shot to would-be client apps: "We need to move to a less fragmented world" http://ow.ly/4d7t6 #
  • Google spent big bucks to learn what a $30 Marcus Buckingham book could've taught them http://nyti.ms/ibA4EW #
  • Great precedence, guys MT @markknoller Pres Obama has arrived at Gridiron Dinner, a press banquet that WH press pool is barred from covering #
  • If latter, I want a swing! MT @alicyp Moment of silence? or a big bash instead?RT @orbitreqs: I'm melting! Meeeeelllllltiiiinnggg!! #
  • Sure sign that your word play is a #fail Editor's note is req'd to explain 'urbane legend' is deliberate. http://ow.ly/4etaS #
  • Consider yourself warned, @whitneyshefte. RT @miketyson: new friends are potential enemies. #
  • I'll go with the Terps RT @jondenunzio: Wayback bracket machine: "Don't want to write your picks? Click on your team." http://wapo.st/egielN #
  • RT @chicoharlan: No way to keep this from sounding corny, but I am in awe of the last 50 or so people at F-Daiichi. // +1 http://ow.ly/4flEl #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-09

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