Rachel's Charities:
This is a seriously crazy column. Soup, is New Jersey really this bad???
Corruption in the Garden State: Seven Years in the Trenches with New Jersey’s Political Elite [Mediaite]
Susan Sarandon - “Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me”
Catchin’ up on my YM - oh yes, I do that on occasion - and caught this from Oct. 27th. My brother’s birthday (and my sister’s, but for the purposes of this post it’s my brother that counts, because he’s the one who introduced me to Rocky Horror lo these many years ago. And he would have liked the Internet). This was also my big song in the Winnebagoe Staff Show of 1991 - wearing a slip and a sports bra - though of course I had known the lyrics by heart since I was 8; that was when I announced to my parents and their friends during a tense game of Rummikub that we were really getting into some heavy petting. 1991 was an exceptionally weird summer, but that part in that play at that time was exactly right.
Wow I just realized I have the same hair as I did then. Hm. I think that might be slightly inappropriate.
Charming. Joe Francis would be proud.
Nice write up Fek.
That was the first time I realized that I was alone in the office and it was totally dark out, and I was completely alone…I thought. While the chances of a scary Hallowe’en spectre coming up behind me with an ax were pretty slim, I nonetheless made Glynnis stay on the phone with me while I walked out. But it was worth it - Hallowe’en was fun, but nerdily, this was the highlight.
HAPPY HALLOWE’EN! Please Enjoy This Blood-Spattered Post [Mediaite]
Tracking Gawker gender hires is the new tracking SNL gender hires?
Well, someone’s got to give a damn or nothing will ever change.
I just got access to Twitter Lists yesterday, and I could NOT believe that I had to not only add everyone one by one, but I couldn’t even type in the name quickly - I have to type in the name in the search box, search, then click on a drop-down menu to select the applicable list. Really? How about just go through your list and CLICK A BOX? But no, multi-adds aren’t possible and won’t be for a while. From Phil Bump’s excellent Twitter List FAQ:
The problem, right now, is that the API for the Lists feature isn’t quite done. According to Marcel Molina, an engineer on the Twitter API team, that API will be ready for developers to use sometime next week. At that point, look for an explosion of browser-based tools which will allow you to quickly and easily build lists in a more intuitive way.
Unfortunately, though, Molina also indicates that having the ability to batch update a list (that is, to add a number of users at a time) is under consideration, but not currently supported. This means that creating or editing a large list will continue to be a little pokey – though resourceful developers may find a way around this limitation.
So why launch this now? Twitter knows that the early beta testing group will happily plug away at making their new feature pop - because it’s COOL to be one of the Twitter chosen, like Ashton - and then that everyone else will follow suit, not only because they’ve heard the buzz but because it’s necessary to not falling behind (let’s inflate those follower counts, everyone!). I have no problem with rolling out a new feature and I have no problem with changing the way the game is played, but I do have a problem with doing so in a way that creates a time-consuming, burdensome process for your users. It’s antithetical to everything that made Twitter work so well in the first place.
I’m Mediaite’s Israel Correspondent! I lobbied HARD for the gig.
Israel Diary: Hello From The Holy Land!
***Thanks to Brian Van for the awesome logo!
She pulled it out of her purse, pushed a button, and there was WiFi
WANT NEED MUST HAVE
Ha - I am not sure if this last line of Choire’s op-ed piece in today’s NYT was meant to be meta, or ironic, or something, but I thought it was funny. It’s good - chekkit here. Smartest line: “Unfortunately, whole careers, both online and off, are built upon stealth endorsement.” Funniest line: “Who will prevent these man-eaters of commerce from persuading me that my personal escape from Thunderdome must not be Pepsi-fueled?”
p.s. Anyone know a way to put a new line in the title here? And also italicizing. But you know what I mean.
