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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-04

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  • Retweet @Ross Jon Stewart Shakes His Fist at Twitter: http://bit.ly/OHmnD “Stalkr just grunt’d on my Twitter” #
  • SXSW book signing for “The Wikipedia Revolution”, Mar 16, 3:25pm, http://bit.ly/Wy5jw Hope to see you there #
  • Blog post: “What the Hashtag?” dictionary reminiscent of Ward Cunningham’s original wiki inspiration http://bit.ly/uIo96 #
  • Few, if any, Tweets about Sri Lankan cricket team shootings use hashtags. Hard to abbreviate, or hashtags a geek thing? #
  • Retweet @klustout Officials from Guangdong go on a Mideast junket that includes a stay at 7-star Burj http://tinyurl.com/acl6d4 #
  • Public service annc: RT @ajschokora Oasis in China ticket return info, English: http://tinyurl.com/cdqq9c ??: http://tinyurl.com/ahvx8w #
  • Is there any more ominous sign than American Society of Newspaper Editors convention cancelled? (First since 1945) http://bit.ly/Lq5qD #
  • Suggestion: ASNE should do Twitter summit like #journchat on future of newspapers, in lieu of face-to-face meeting http://bit.ly/Lq5qD #
  • Idea for a modern day WPA-style project: an oral (or video) history of newspaper newsrooms that seem to closing left and right #
  • Netizens and the news business are locked in a mutually destructive death spiral. Can anything arrest the decline? http://bit.ly/L2taO #
  • Wow: Amazon releases Kindle for iPhone (MacWorld): http://xrl.us/beh9jf #

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-03

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  • RT @shanghaiist: World’s first Jackie Chan museum opening in Shanghai: http://tinyurl.com/alb3sp (And again, Hong Kong misses the boat) #
  • RT @niubi CCTV fire “bldg structurally toast” (can think of no better description; demolition is going to be daunting) #
  • CNBC: DJIA falls below 7000 points for first time since October 1997 (corrected) #
  • Strolling down memory lane: Books proclaiming Dow reaching 30k, 36k, 40k, 100k http://bit.ly/R76Aa #
  • Idea of the week: Draft a book proposal called “Dow 3,000″ and get it sold by April #
  • RT @acarvin All references to snow on Twitter within a 25 mile radius of DC: http://is.gd/lqZt #snowDC #
  • TechDirt: How Does Chinese Internet Censorship Affect Business? http://bit.ly/LH0bR #
  • WSJ: Freddie Mac CEO Will Resign http://bit.ly/2UgBy (Not sure what good this does now…) #
  • CNBC: AIG CEO Won’t Rule Out Needing Another Bailout http://bit.ly/vDFaW #
  • Quote of the day: “The best encryption in the world won’t help you if your passphrase sucks.” Jeff Nye http://bit.ly/4BIiJz #
  • Retweet @DanHarris “Why China Will Remain Stable” http://is.gd/lpMp #
  • RT @InternetLaw “Pentagon Media Strategy Document Decrypted Due to Weak Passphrase” http://tinyurl.com/cthq2c #
  • Interesting: “What the hashtag?!” a user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter http://wthashtag.com #
  • Pitch: “The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia” (Mar 17) http://bit.ly/8wvv #journchat #
  • See @ahess247 BusinessWeek’s summary of startups presenting at DEMO http://is.gd/lrDp #
  • Cool spiffier looking version of TweetGrid functionality: http://monitter.com #
  • Twitter Counter: Top 100 Tweeters in Beijing http://bit.ly/zcQ1V Mix of locals and expats, pretty flat distribution #