Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.
Colonel Flagg — M*A*S*H (via Jeremy Philips)
For any team ever put together, Mariano is my closer.
Peter Gammonds
Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network.
Mitch Kapor
But is the 90/10 ratio (or whatever it ends up being) a bad thing for Twitter? Well, it depends on what Twitter is looking to achieve. If your goal is an egalitarian media world driven by a virally explosive platform, this is bad news. But if your goal is to create the easiest to use publishing platform of all time, to empower more people than ever before to reflect on the world as it happens in real-time, and to have steady reader growth driven by the quality and impact of those reflections, it’s just fine.
Jonathan Glick, The Feedia: Twitter’s (10%) Feeding Frenzy | Mediaite, 7/7/09
The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful, says Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor who is an expert on the Internet. That is, tweets by their nature seem trivial, with little that is original or menacing. Even Twitter accounts seen as promoting the protest movement in Iran are largely a series of links to photographs hosted on other sites or brief updates on strategy. Each update may not be important. Collectively, however, the tweets can create a personality or environment that reflects the emotions of the moment and helps drive opinion.
Noam Cohen, Twitter on the Barricades - Six Lessons Learned - NYTimes.com, 6/20/09
If a Tweet can release some anxiety that would otherwise be focused on self-destructive or anti-social behavior — a cigarette smoked, a child spanked, a harsh word slung — then that alone gives it more meaningful human value than the entire New York Times Op-Ed mausoleum.
Adam Hanft, Maureen Dowd, Please Stop Now. Twitter is Not Just For the Banal Retentive — The Huffington Post, 4/22/09
On one of the days I was there, in early February, I was the only white Jew in the shul, and an old guy in front of me kept turning around and showing me the right page. There’s a nudnik like him in every shul I’ve ever been to.
Zev Chafets, Barack Obama’s Rabbi - Capers Funnye - Profile - NYTimes.com, 4/2/09
We don’t have any billionaire philanthropists, like the Bronfmans or the Crowns. The only rich black Jew I ever heard about was Sammy Davis Jr., and he’s dead. Besides, he was Reform.
Barack Obama’s Rabbi - Capers Funnye - Profile - NYTimes.com, 4/2/09
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