Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-08

  • Obama and U.S. back to being embarassingly non-committal re: Egypt #
  • TN lawmakers, leave Health Care Reform alone! I didn't vote for your nonsense #
  • updated to wordpress 3.05 at http://theoblogical.org #
  • @JayRosen_nyu ont how Media execs have trouble w/ new media; their skills are based on heirarchical/vertical http://bit.ly/dU55ke ~29:00 #
  • RT @davewiner: Rebooting the News podcast on Huffpost, Keller vs Assange, Al Jazzera. http://r2.ly/6shf // Very good worthwhile conversation #
  • re: prev tweet: and that this is why AOL wants them #
  • @davewiner & @jayrosen_nyu say on podcast http://bit.ly/gh4p9R that The Huffington Post has a good news environment (technical & journo) #
  • Web page for "Rebooting the News" where conversation linked in prev post is hosted http://bit.ly/gh4p9R #
  • @jayrosen_nyu & @davewiner on snarky dismissals of the role of Social Media in fermenting revolution http://bit.ly/fe4GQW + AOL-Huff deal #
  • Maybe HuffPo is just a "quasi-Citizen media" enterprise? They do feature "celebrity bloggers" after all. But maybe this is their strength? #
  • @dangillmor: @keitholbermann raises downside of HuffPost allowing itself 2b purchased by AOL. Will Citizen Media features ofHuffPo prevail? #
  • Prev RT of @keitholbermann raises downside of HuffPost allowing itself 2b purchased by AOL. Will Citizen Media features ofHuffPo prevail? #
  • RT @KeithOlbermann: Am I missing something or has the primary appeal of The Huffington Post been its independence from big $ media? #
  • Reuter's report on Google Exec's release http://reut.rs/ewRQGX #
  • Sr. Google Exec who had been detained is reportedly freed now in Egypt, according to a report I just saw: Aljazeera at http://bit.ly/htj7gw #
  • RT @davewiner: To @jayrosen_nyu — talk abt Huffpo on today's RBTN. // Looking forward to that http://bit.ly/e4SjLx a little later today #
  • more @jeffjarvis "N link econ.: 2 creations of value & 2 opport's 2 lvrg value: creation of content & of the audience for it, via links. " #
  • Alternate title for my latest blog post: How the HuffPo purchase by AOL suggests what the church media should do http://bit.ly/hYrSRZ #
  • @jeffjarvis Blogs: "The NYT or WaPo are still too tied to their views of themselves as the founts of all fonts" http://bit.ly/fTPgZD #
  • @jeffjarvis : "One wonders why big, old media companies didn’t buy Huffington Post. (or) started their own HuffPos." http://bit.ly/fTPgZD #
  • But then Nelson makes amends #
  • Yikes. Yet another drop #
  • Packers lose this and they have only themselves to blame 3 dropped passes and an idiotic penalty #
  • Trolls Pounce on Facebook’s Tahrir Square | Danger Room | Wired.com http://t.co/GNuDYUB #
  • @kevin2kelly 's book "What Technology Wants" is the book making me wish I cuould buy a package deal of 3 formats: Print, Ebook, and Audible #
  • LIstening to Radio Berkman 172: The Evolutionary Biases of the Technium @dweinberger interviews @kevin2kelly at http://bit.ly/ePqQBe #
  • @dangillmor 's call2 become "active users of media" very relevant 2church media orgs: We profess 2b a "body", calling 4 active engagement #
  • @jeffjarvis anyway, looking forward to it #
  • @jeffjarvis yes, just wondering about when you hear back (re: your "fingers croseed" tweet) #
  • @jeffjarvis eta of reply? Days? Week? Any idea? #
  • Love live chatting with friends from across the ocean…friend Eric in Manchester just asked me to check a BBC link …fun #
  • @dangillmor: "Digital Age media are broadly distributed and participatory" p. 27 http://bit.ly/g4hdFj To participate in 2-way media, TALK #
  • Media orgs (esp church ones) MUST recognize what @dangillmor calls "a new, competitive mediasphere" ; iow, actually TALK via new media #
  • Wow. Prev tweet/update from MediaActive http://bit.ly/g4hdFj p.25 exemplifies how we further marginalize poor by hiding them in our media #
  • Disturbing: "most large daily papers increasingly aimed coverage largely at the top 40 pct (acc to income) of the communities they served" #
  • prev tweet info from "Early Lesson drawn from Tunisian Revolution" http://bit.ly/fGGQkN via smartmobs.com #
  • The EFF "Surveillance Self-Defense International" http://bit.ly/ggR0Uq which gives practical advice for people living in repressive regimes #
  • Is connectivity making Egyptian mobbers smarter? SmartMObs.com article http://bit.ly/eRNjEP website for @hrheingold 's 2002 "Smart Mobs" #
  • I like this from @dangillmor 's MediaActive: "any of us can—and many should—commit occasional acts of journalism" http://bit.ly/g4hdFj p.17 #
  • @larryhol Did you know that Dan and Steve Gillmor (ie #GillmorGang are brothers? #
  • @larryhol I've begun reading MediaActive too. Hope you'll share with us some of those thoughts on this one. @dangillmor 's a good guy #
  • I want Amazon DVD/digitial download deal for books because I like physical books…but want to also read it on device or listen to it too #
  • Anybody bought a DVD via Amazon that has free digital copy U can download & watch immediately upon purchase? Wish they'd do same for books! #
  • My blank desktop problem went way when I rolled back 2 the restore point from b4 I first did a restore 2 fix a prob & now that's fixed too #
  • Anybody ever gotten blank desktop after reboot following a windows 7 system restore? Not black , but light blue (not BSOD) #
  • @HBO also, NO video episodes since #172 we're now at 201 #
  • Wish Amazon would do same for books as it does for many movies: Let you get electronic version free with purchase of print/DVD. #
  • @HBO even the audio podcast won't work on my iphone…when I try to downlload it, it says it "cannot be played on this iPhone". #
  • @HBO Nope, not video, and not until Monday #
  • @HBO My tweets were a complaint that I cannot watch Real Time. I ought to be able to purchase an episode online. #
  • Here's a good "New Rule" Bill Maher suggests re: Egypt/Tunisia at http://youtu.be/J5_EbZlLPfw #
  • @hbo, I cannot even get hbo unless I also spend 50-60 bucks a month more. Make shows viewable for 3 bucks and make money! Missed opp't'y #
  • @hbo is nuts if they think most people will subscribe 2 all of it just 2 see maybe 2 shows. Need downloadable shows like itunes and amazon! #
  • @jtaschek, @dbfarber, @scobleizer, @dannysullivan , @stevegillmor on http://bit.ly/gdPalF talking Internet& Egypt, Bing and Google #
  • #GillmorGang http://bit.ly/aNfKZC talking about Egypt shutting off Internet #
  • #GillmorGang talking about Egypt shutting off Internet #
  • @jtaschek, @dbfarber, @scobleizer, @dsullivan, @stevegillmor on GillmorGang just starting #
  • watching @leolaporte 's livestream from Buenos Aires at http://www.justin.tv/chieftwit/b/278851262 #
  • RT @STurkle: NYT: Does Facebook makes us more social? . link should be http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/fashion/30Studied.html #
  • @razsc in case I didn't make it clear inmy first reply: Excellent point. That's food for quite a bit of thought; a good starting question #
  • @razsc most certainly…I'm afraid that is what it has become for a lot of people. #
  • These "Mubarek" supporters: such BS. Where were they when all this started? This is manufactured after Mubarek's plan for "transition" #
  • ISTM that Mabarek, seeing the failure of his "concession", is now resorting to dramatic increase in outright thuggery via his police #
  • Fot the time being, the ISPs here are off the hook #
  • MIne just came back @davewiner @dsearls @terryheaton #
  • @TerryHeaton What's yoour ISP Terry? #
  • Think there's any possibility of ISP's blocking that address? @davewiner @dsearls @terryheaton I'm Comcast, @davewiner is Verizon Fios #
  • @dsearls Guess that answers that. Your ISP is who? I'm suspecting that it's AJ outgoing that has been cut off, although I can't be sure #
  • @dsearls you still getting the live feed from AJ English? #
  • @davewiner I would have suspected Comcast if not for your tweeting that you had lost it….guess maybe the AJ outgoing comm has been cut #
  • @davewiner your aljazeera live stream still off? #
  • I'm fearing that Al Jazeera live stream team has had thier outgoing conenctions cut #
  • RT @davewiner: Just lost my connection to http://bit.ly/htj7gw. // Me too #
  • Taxes to be done today….hoping for big refund…then to submit a copy with forms for Pell Grant for son's college expenses #
  • The one question Glenn Beck asks to which I continually find myself answering yes: "Is it just me, or……?" #
  • RT @maddow: Sign held up by protester in Tahrir Square: "Go already… my arm's starting to hurt" http://is.gd/vOe8VM //via @mmflint #
  • Why HBO or Apple won't podcasts accessed via iTunes play on my 3GS? Why is this on iTunes if it won't play on an iPhone's iPod app? #
  • and we wonder why people get enraged at us…we are such hypocrites, selling out to the almighty dollar: http://bit.ly/ia7dlf via @mmflint #
  • The Daily Show With Jon Stewart|Bill Gates http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-31-2011/bill-gates from last night #

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