“Fear instead of reason—fear of losing a job in the next Twitter eruption, fear of being knifed by ideologically obsessed colleagues—determines what you can see, hear or be taught in certain of our institutions. “
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from Thomas Donlan at Barron’s, Ignorance is Not Bliss “Tech writer Bruce Sterling commented in 2007 that using Twitter for ‘literate communication’ is ‘about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite The Iliad.’ The
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Some of the major technological marvel of today’s world are not doing much to create new jobs. They’ll bring big gains but without putting too many people back to work, IT specialists of the right kind excluded. The internet is
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I find that following and being followed by a few thousand people on Twitter gives one a certain feel of the pulse of the electorate. I realize that most of my followers are right of center, thought I aim to
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1. blaming economic crises on “greed” is like blaming plane crashes on gravity.- Thomas Sowell 2. “crony capitalism” is to capitalism what National Socialism (Nazism) is to socialism- hko 3. ‘Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for
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By far the most retweeted posting I ever posted 50 reasons to Oppose Cap and Trade– great article! http://bit.ly/4bN7D0 10 surprising facts about American Health Care http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649 Now who are the deniers http://bit.ly/7TxYjb Obama’s has the least private sector experience
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I am a recovering twitternizer. Twitternize is a word I made up; it is a combination of the words Twitter and patronize. To twitternize is to play to your Twitter audience by either posting an entry you think the Twitter
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The Tehran Times complains that Israel has too many friends on the internet. Read the story here. It is hard to make this stuff up.
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I have been blogging for two years and well over a thousand entries. I started Twittering as a means of expanding the number of readers and as an accessory to the blog. I use Twitter to share articles and sources
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