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Would be fine with me, just as long as they keep showing up in my Twitterfox app for Firefox! How many people have blown off twitter as a “might be useful” to “this thing is a stupid waste of time” application? Troglodytes.
I mean come on. We’re rock solid slammed to the gills with work most of the time, and the idea of picking up the phone to say hello (wait, where IS my phone?) is a bit too much to process when we’re crunching on a deadline.
The tweets we release (not a scatological reference, folks) give us brief moments of Zen by which we can reach out and touch, smack, nudge, or query our followers and then wait to see who’s out there as we scamper forward with our work load like screaming chimps! (Fast Money Reference)
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Jason Lee Miller over at WebPro News released a blog post today stating that as far as the United States House of Representatives is concerned, bloggers, freelancers, independents, and nonprofit journalists are not “true journalists.” As such, they should not be protected from having to divulge their news sources if asked to by the government.
Wow. Really? Are we really here? God. I’m still reeling from this one. The US Government – or part of it – actually putting into words its desire to deem some Americans free to speak their mind and seek the truth without fear of having to put their sources in jeopardy while all but issuing those not wearing their US Press Pass a gag order (emphasis on the “gag”).
I can’t really put my disgust and frustration any better than Jason did – so here’s his take:
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