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lessons in time-wasting

heather Aug 12, 2009 20:35

Trying to discuss the health care bill on Twitter, 140 characters at a time, with folks who don't appear to even know what's in the bill, is generally not advisable. It only leads to headdesking.

That is all.

twitter, politics, wonkage, people sometimes

the world is still watching

heather Jun 20, 2009 09:26

Twitter is blowing up with news of tear gas, water cannons, and shootings in Tehran, at today's demonstrations. This is what the protesters are dealing with now.

Watch the #iranelection, #iranelections, and #gr88 hashtags if you're on Twitter, and be careful, not everything is reliable.

Don't trust any news coming exclusively from Iranian ( Read more... )

world, twitter, current events

the revolution will not be televised

heather Jun 15, 2009 19:53

When it comes to reporting on the situation in Iran, cable news fails on an epic scale. It's not all mainstream media; PBS and NPR are doing really good work and there are journalists there now risking their lives to report on this. But when cable news is bothering to report on this at all, they (and many politicians) are making it about the US and ( Read more... )

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snort

heather Mar 08, 2009 10:22

From 'Darth Vader's Twitter:

Was scheduled to destroy a small rebel enclave this morning but I overslept. Internal chronometer didn't reset. R&D will pay dearly.

Made even more amusing to me by the fact that I totally forgot about Daylight Savings, too.

And oh man, wish me luck. So much writing to do today.

twitter, random, lulz

Adventures in Blogging ... sort of ... #17

heather Nov 17, 2008 20:07

Tomorrow, LJ goes away. From about 11am Eastern to, um ... not sure for how long. Four hours, at least. And they'll phase it in, when it comes back, so that not everything will be available right away ( Read more... )

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