Left-wing journalist Nir Rosen joked today about the sexual assault of CBS News’ chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. Logan was assaulted on Friday during celebrations in Cairo that followed Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. (more)
The Twittersphere went to war with Kenneth Cole Thursday after the clothing giant used the Egypt uprising to promote its new spring collection. (more)
“Late Show” host David Letterman may be a more seasoned entertainer than pop sensation Justin Bieber, but he could learn a thing or two from the 16-year old. (more)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3: “Countdown” viewers witnessed a small but historic moment tonight when Keith Olbermann tacitly admitted he is a giant pain in the Keith Olbmermann. The admission came during his nightly “Tweet of the day” segment, when he reads aloud Twitter postings that are either funny (to him) or flattering (to him). Tonight’s tweet addressed his tiff last week with Bristol Palin: “Aww, Keith, Bristol is pissed at you,” a woman named Sabrina Brown wrote. “To Ms. Brown and Ms. Palin, I worked for ESPN for a total of seven and a half years,” he replied on air. “‘Bristol is pissed at me’ is my default setting.” (more)
Keith Olbermann has a thin skin. This week, he brazenly showed off that skin on the air – but only metaphorically, thank God. Keith, you tease! (more)
The last week of summer tends to present an unusually small number of things to be angry about. All over America, people take time off work and drive to the beach and try not to think about the coming fall. We read fat novels, enjoy our families and soak up the sun. And although it’s hard to say what’s cause and what’s effect, the world itself tends to comply with this sleepy mood, and the news seems to get slower and less consequential before returning full blast after Labor Day. It’s a hot, lazy and happy time for most of us. (more)
He’s baaaaaaack! Keith Olbermann returned from a two-week vacation on Monday. Meanwhile, MSNBC announced that his substitute host Lawrence O’Donnell’s own show, “The Last Word,” will debut Sept. 27 at 10 p.m. Olbermann’s little bird is flying from the nest to build his own! Now there will be two shoddily constructed, little-watched nests trying to avoid being eaten by Fox. This won’t end well. (more)
Today at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stopped by. To say security was tight here is putting it lightly. I had to go through a process much more stringent than any airport I’ve ever been to just to get in. There are snipers here. Not kidding. (more)
Sony has developed a cat collar that tweets. The company’s Computer Science Lab recently demonstrated a prototype of Cat@Log, equipped with a still camera, GPS, accelerometer, and Bluetooth, capable of reporting minute-by-minute activities on Twitter. (more)
Last week, we learned that the Library of Congress was archiving every single public Tweet since the dawn of Twitter in their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. (more)
Jim Carrey did a humorous thing in which he joked that he was sexually harassed by Ben Roethlisberger following a stream of missives about the actor’s desire to write inoffensive tweets. Carrey developed this new tweeting strategy after he earned the collective ire of the Internet on Friday, when he alleged that Elin Woods was a “willing participant” to Tiger’s infidelity. “No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle ;^),” he wrote. (more)
Keith Olbermann has a nightly television show, a blog, and has written several books. If the man spent any more time churning out pearls of wisdom, he’d have to see a doctor. Well, call a medic, because last night, Keith Olbermann joined Twitter. His first Tweet reads thusly: “I give up. I was wrong. Young and foolish. Now my twitter-cot belongs to the ages. Behold: I tweet.” Only Keith Olbermann could compose a tweet that’s 5 sentences long. (more)
LL Cool J was not cool with VP wannabe Sarah Palin using 2-year-old footage of the rap star in her new show, so Fox News yesterday dropped it. (more)
Tweet. Tweet. That’s not the sound of baby birds celebrating the first day of spring. Some would say it’s the future of news journalism in this country. (more)
Madison and Wallschlaeger were part of Tin Can Comms Collective, a “collection of communication rebels” made up of several individuals in various locations across Pittsburgh. Madison’s job was to verify information being sent in and then relay that to legal observers, street medics, and other organizers who could in turn tweet the information to the masses in the streets. (more)
Forget the Dalai Lama. Someone even more important has started his own Twitter feed: Conan O’Brien. (more)
Congress has spent the past year learning to tweet. More than a third of members are doing it now. And if you thought the minute-to-minute musings of your best friends were boring (“I need coffee . . . I just saw a snowflake”) just wait. (more)
Millions of Gmail users opened their inboxes today to find a new — and mysterious — feature waiting for them: Google Buzz. (more)
Really, NBC? (more)
You don’t joke about bombing anything – even on Twitter. (more)
