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First Thing We Do, Let’s Change the Theme Song: The Newsroom Season 2
Aaron Sorkin took his fair share of flack over Season 1 of The Newsroom. Some of it was merited, some of it was the inevitable result of riding high on an impossible sense of public anticipation. If...
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“Twetiquette” Twenty: Tips for T(w)errific Twitter Time
This post grew out of something I was doing on Twitter this morning. Someone was wondering if they should unfollow a person who was cluttering up their feed with nonsense and constant retweets – they...
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For want of One Great Phrase
We hear a lot about what writers need, about their obsessive, soul-shaking compulsion to empty their brains of neatly arranged consonants and vowels in as many media as possible, in pursuit of the...
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The scale of Schadenfreude
It’s a difficult thing to admit your mistakes. Even more so when admitting them is an acknowledgement that you are not in all ways the evolved, progressive, compassionate thinker you fancy yourself to...
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By any other name
I came across a blog post in my Twitter feed the other day that asked one’s opinion on pen names. When I first got started online back in the early aughts, the mere thought of using my own name was...
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What Kind of Tweeter Are You?
Oh, dear, dear Twitter, how I love thee. Since I never have time for television anymore, movies are too expensive and regular social gatherings terrify me, Twitter has become a combination news/...
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Taming the Rage Monster
The Troggs had it wrong: love is not all around, rage is. At least that’s what it seems when dialing into any form of media of late. We’re a perpetual powder keg, frothing at our keyboards to spew a...
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People, Not Property
Something horrible happened a little while ago in a place with the deceptively idyllic-sounding name of Isla Vista. In the aftermath and the weeks since we’ve tried to process it, to assign a specific...
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Why I Write
Tag! I’m it! So there is something called a “blog hop” going on amidst my little community of fellow Internet scribes in which each of us is tasked in turn to devote a few paragraphs to what drives...
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Fire and Rain and all that jazz
I heard through social media a little while ago that a friend from high school days had passed away. Her name was Kim. While we had never been the textbook definition of close, we would chat from...
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10,000 Characters on Why 10,000 Characters for Twitter is a Bad Idea
From the latest episode of This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Searching for a new angle to boost declining user growth, Twitter is allegedly looking into ballooning its signature 140-character...
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