University of California-Berkeley graduate student James Karl Buck was jailed while covering anti-government protests in Egypt. But they didn’t take his cell phone, and he keep up his contacts beginning with the one-word Twitter: “arrested.”
I’m still considering adding Twitter here. Would you use it to talk to each other here in real time? And who knows what other uses Twitter might inspire.
: Akan I hope you are not pulling a Matt Drudge and uppping your visitor counter then refreshing every 10 seconds - you'l have 10 billion "visitors" or "hits" just like he claimed in no time at all.
: You gott fix the refresh / ideo issue - I have tried three times to watch it and i just gave up.
: And, heh, it just did it again, so it looks like the video doesn't fit between refreshes.
: Hmm, the auto-update just interrupted the Corsi video replay
: Well, if it doesn't auto-update, it's not really streaming, so what's the point?
: to be an american again After the neo-cons are in gitmo!
: Why does this scroll upside down?
: Great. You read it...
: Do Not Read This.
: we may change the refresh to every 5 minutes. I think that's better.
Alan~ why not try adding it for a trial period? Like two weeks or a month or something? I’m sure the regular bloggers will use it.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I just read the news article. That is AWESOME. Technology has just really changed us. While my sister was in Iraq, I im’ed her via Yahoo Messenger. I commented to her once how amazing that was. Letters from Vietnam took weeks to arrive, I was contacting her in real time.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
i love twitter.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Twitter would be cool to have I guess. I’ve never used it before, but I’m open to trying new things.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Does anyone remember hearing about Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis from Princeton? I keep hearing about how “dangerous” Michelle is, so I decided to start some research on her. I came across an article from Politico today, which provides some excerpts from the thesis. It’s like 100 pages, so my mom is going to print that bad boy for me so I can read it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
May 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Well my main question is what are the security issues? AOL instant messenger seems a conduit for every kind of malware ever invented. Twitter I know nothing about.
But given the propensity of the rightists to violate the law, their so-called Christian values, and every imaginable moral code in order to advance their political agenda, I would anticipate that any vulnerability in the Twitter code might be exploited.
Frankly, I’ve been expecting LiberlLand to be hacked as a matter of routine.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I registered but am not sure how good it is real time. I suppose we’d have to add each other. Frankly, I probably just haven’t figured it out yet.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
oh, unsigned in get abstract art avatars? K.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
my twitter’s on my blogspot blog, and there’s nothing sexy brilliant in it, unlike my posts here. I is da Timberlake of bloggers.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I still don’t get this. How is this different from just IMing people?
Oh yeah. I’m sure everyone on here is dying to know what I am doing every second of the day. lol.
Right now I’m watching MSNBC for election coverage and drinking a glass of snapple ice tea. Stay tuned as I might take be taking a shower later.
Ok so I don’t get it. I guess I’m just getting old.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
BREAKING NEWS — Indiana too early to call. North Carolina too early to call.
Tim Russert is wearing a navy tie with white pin stripes. Chris Matthews is wearing a dark navy tie with white dots. Keith Olbermann, a silvery white tie.
Stay tuned for future updates.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
LOL. you guys are silly. But Epiphany raises a good question… how is twitter dif from im?
I was going to call Alan tonight to ask what I fear is a stupid question, but I can’t find the answer myself. I’m not advocating this answer, I just want to know why it’s not feasible. Regarding our national debt, why can’t we just have a bunch of really really rich people pay it? B/c we’ll just get back in debt again? B/c they don’t have that much money? I don’t get it, 4 real.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Am I the only one who sees these pretty little quilt square things that have appeared next to our comments?
May 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Update! uhh,watching i.Carly with my daughter,just popped 4 hydros,much better now.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
They make me think of snowflakes.
As for economic style questions, no offense, but Alan’s not too good at answering them. Also, he’s explained how dull they can be to his audience. Once a caller brings up oil this, and profit margins that, the call is short-lived. They really shouldn’t bother.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Craig~ what’s a ‘hydro’
would you people please speak in a language i understand? i’m starting to feel like an out of touch moron
May 6th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Doesn’t hydro have to do with water?
May 7th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Yes, it does. But he ‘popped’ them, which makes me think it’s a pill or something. Or maybe that’s just his lingo for opening a bottle of water?
Well Craig???????
May 7th, 2008 at 11:27 am