Monthly Archives: March 2007

Daily Papers

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 24, 2007

It’s an old, old story and somehow the blogs have stumbled onto it in the last few days and made it their own. US newspaper circulation is going down. O’Reilly, Powers, and others are worrying the issue right now in the face of trouble at the Chron. Over the last thirty years, as one-by-one the [...]

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Comparative Twitterature

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 24, 2007

Speaks for itself, really. [tags]twitter, tweeties, breakfast of champignons[/tags]

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Posts and Pssts…

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 23, 2007

twitter-twatter of tiny tweets non-sequitura redundant shout-outs and momentary fancy An op-ed column is generally between seven hundred and a thousand words. A blog post seldom exceeds four hundred. A tweet, and god how cutesy is that, how abysmally derivative, stupid… a tweet is limited to a mandatory 140 characters. I suppose we could come [...]

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Who’s your uncle?

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 22, 2007

Comic Relief 2007 Ricky GervaisUploaded by Barneyk

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It’s not rock and roll if your pants don’t hurt

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 22, 2007

The New Yorker is having a conference. For twelve hundred bucks you can listen to wisdom from the likes of David Byrne and Barry Diller, and maybe eat dinner at a table near them. What I like about the conference is that only one or two of “our people” are on the speakers list. What [...]

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No there there… or advancing the story rel.0.93

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 21, 2007

George Kelly takes blame or credit (you decide), for the “No there there” Oakland, California videoblog, home to but a single posting as of this morning. May its content increase. (re. “No there there…” somewhere there is someone who has not heard the origin of this phrase. For that under-served and non Bay Area person, [...]

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Advancing the story…

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 20, 2007

Bringing all the tools of the intertubes into play, NYU journo prof and social capitalist Jay Rosen presents yet another beta: Oddly enough for a fellow teaching at a school best remembered as the fall back school for kids from New York who didn’t get into their fall back school, Jay has raised a healthy [...]

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Divine intervention…

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 20, 2007

…if God can trick traffic lights and create parking spaces in order to meet the mundane desires of Moore and his friend, yet this same God can’t and hasn’t stopped wars, can’t and hasn’t cured cancer, then… Linked by Ed Cone [tags]sounds right to me[/tags]

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