Media in the New Millennium

Posted by Lisa Everitt
Boulder native, New York Times reporter and Rudy Park co-creator Matt Richtel has launched his latest creative project: a novel on Twitter.
Called Twiller, it’s a thriller delivered one 140-character slice at a time. Catch it at  http://twitter.com/mrichtel.  You might want to check the plot summary first before jumping into tweets like this:
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posted by Lisa Everitt
In response to a press release Metzger sent Thursday on behalf of new client iTech Fitness, I received the following email from the Internet experts at eMediaWorld.com. This is just an excerpt from the 500-line original, but you get the idea.
Thanks, guys, I’m all over it!
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Media in the New Millennium is pleased to introduce new poster Lisa Everitt, a noted journalist and a new member of the Metzger team. Welcome, Lisa!
When at a memorial service, the only appropriate place for your thumbs is in your lap, along with all your other fingers. You may not read the New York Times, [...]

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So, if it’s not already obvious I’m a gadget guy, let me make it more so — I just gave my wife my First Gen Jawbone Bluetooth headset so I could get… the new Jawbone Bluetooth headset.
Worth it? Absolutely.
For those of you now familiar with Jawbone, it is, in my humble opinion, the finest Bluetooth [...]

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Like a kid waiting for Dec. 25th, I can’t wait for the new iPhone to hit on 7/11 (did they do that on purpose? Does it come with a free Slurpee?).
Engadget got a great hands-on tour of the new iPhone and covered it here. OK, I’m jealous. Guess I’ll just have to wait for 7/11!
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Here’s a fun tool from the folks at Metzger client Grooveshark — TinySong (www.tinysong.com). Simply type in the name of any song in the box on the home page and you’ll get a list of options from the Grooveshark library. Click on one and the program generates a URL and automatically copies it to your [...]

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I took the plunge about a month ago and purchased a Kindle, the e-reader from Amazon. At first, I have to admit, it was a toy. Now, honestly, it’s changed the way I consume reading material. Here’s some notes from my first 30 days.
The Closed Ecosystem. At first, I was not too crazy about buying [...]

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If you’re like me, you find things all day long that you’d like to read, but deadlines (or just the general the need to focus on your day job) don’t allow you to always do that. So, do you bookmark it? That makes a hot mess pretty fast. Jot it down? Yeah, that’ll work.
Enter Instapaper.
All [...]

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I have to have some work done on my Subaru this week (note: do NOT pull in to the garage with the bike on the roof rack — it does not work out). Switching cars for a few days is always a pain, and this switch is even more so — the rental car does [...]

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Brian Morrissey, Adweek’s digital editor, gives PR folks some great insights through his tweets (posts on Twitter.com). I thought it would be interesting to post a few of his tweets — and comment — on them here. What might surprise many, including Brian, is that I agree with his comments (for the most part!).Recent tweets [...]

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