Letterman hates Twitter

I don't know if we're still supposed to be blogging or if David and Geoff will grade us down if we don't even though we're in the heat of presentation/take-home-quiz/paper/final-exam crunch time. But just in case they are, here's a tidbit for you who missed Letterman tearing Twitter a new one.



I guess I don't really hate Twitter as much as Letterman does (even though I said "F*)& Twitter" in a previous blog post, I was just being humorously snarky). But I would agree that I just don't see the point and do not want to spend the energy to let everyone know that I'm eating a smoked turkey sandwich (a la the Jimmy Kimmell clip we showed in our class presentation). Anytime I Tweet it's just a reiteration of how much I don't want to Tweet.

What I like about this clip is that Letterman believes that Twitter is the first step in the downfall of our civilization. I recall joking the same thing about Facebook in that the Facbebook servers know everything about everyone on the planet and could amass so much knowledge it will acheive consciousness of itself and take over the world as Skynet did in the Terminator franchise.

The big difference is that I don't hate Facebook. Not sure if that's good news or not.

The rant I told you about

Just in case anyone is curious to read the article I mentioned in class:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/08/who-the-hell-is-enrolling-in-journalism-school-right-now/

The PROOF

Here's the picture I told you about of me in front of the San Francisco chronicle. So now you know I was not lying. Ha.

Saving Newspapers - THE MUSICAL

This is pretty stupid, but if it puts you in a good mood, more power to it. Enjoy!

Dude, seriously...

I fell for another one. Seems that April Fools day is causing as much of a twitter craze as all bleeping politicians and journalists out there. If it weren't for the fact that this was a joke I would be tearing my hair out.



Saw this on KTLA this morning.

F#$k twitter.

The TWAPERS are coming

A newspaper in Asheville, North Carolina has seized all printing operations and now will use Twitter exclusively to put out the news, thereby becoming the nations first "Twaper."

I found this on the "E&P Pub," which is another feed from the "Editor & Publisher" website that we follow as a class.



After I saw this I thought about the future and how life will be with "twapering."

"So honey, have you seen the morning twaper this morning?" I would say.

"Yeah, there was a really funny cartoon in the twunnys," my wife would say.

"Aren't they called the funnys?"

"No, they are now called the "twunnys." You need to get with the twimes.

"Well where is the twaper?"

"It's on the twable under the tweacups."

This sounds like someone's idea of HELL to me. I don't want it to happen.

Then I re-read the entry and saw that the whole announcement was April Fool's joke.

Thank god.