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  • Twitter & Maltese Falcon Take Flight on Same Day

    Did anyone else notice that San Francisco’s two favorite birds both got hawked yesterday? SF-based Twitter flew the coop with its soaring IPO while the Maltese Falcon, the titular bird in Dashiell Hammett’s novel and John Huston’s big screen adaptation, went on the auction block. “The infamous black bird prop from the 1941 Humphrey Bogart…

  • Twitter & Maltese Falcon Take Flight on Same Day

    Did anyone else notice that San Francisco’s two favorite birds both got hawked yesterday? SF-based Twitter flew the coop with its soaring IPO while the Maltese Falcon, the titular bird in Dashiell Hammett’s novel and John Huston’s big screen adaptation, went on the auction block. “The infamous black bird prop from the 1941 Humphrey Bogart…

  • Unplug

    The Wisdom of Plugging into #Unplug There was a time when the notion of “unplugging” meant you were either euthanizing someone or going acoustic, or, in the case of Korn, both. These days, unplugging most often refers to turning off one’s various devices, signing off of social networks and generally diverting one’s stream of consciousness…

  • Is Starbucks? Adoption of Square a Conflict of Interest for Jack Dorsey?

    “This fall, Square will begin processing all credit and debit card transactions at Starbucks stores in the United States,? reports the New York Times, referring to the small mobile payments device that allows credit cards to be swiped by smartphones and tablets. Now, coffee behemoth Starbucks will help kill off cash registers (and perhaps cash)…

  • Why Do Men Put Their Penises Online?

    ?To tweet or not to tweet?? ? that should have been the question for former U.S. representative Anthony Weiner whose infamous social media snafu made him and his briefs-ensconced boner a household name synonymous with ?moron.? Not only did Weiner’s foray into softcore porn (and subsequent revelations about ‘sexting? with numerous women) provide a wide…

  • Twitter the “Mayor” of the Middle East?

    I’m just sophomoric enough to still enjoy a typo or two when it comes from in such a venerable a news organization as the New York Times. In a article exploring the 5th anniversary of the launch of Twitter, the Times substituted the word “mayor” for “major” when describing its role in the recent uprisings…

  • Oscar’s All a’Twitter

    Come February of every year, scads of entertainment journalists engage in a ritual peculiar to their beat. They apply for press credentials to cover the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Academy Awards. An awards ceremony for motion pictures presented on television epitomizes traditional media. If the gold statuette was wrapped in newspaper…

  • Social Media Snarketing

    There was a time when “social media” described newspaper folk rubbing elbows. But like the word “thong,” the term has come to mean something else entirely in our new millennium. Speaking as an accredited member of the media, I can say I approve of the reassignment of both terms. With “Web 2.0” came a deluge…