AT&T’s top lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, sent a letter to all of the telecom giant’s 300,000 employees on Sunday, urging them to express their concerns over a net neutrality proposal under consideration by the Federal Communications Commission.
What makes these tweets significant is that they were written by Raju Narisetti, one of The Post’s top editors. As one of two managing editors, he’s responsible for The Post’s features content and oversees its Web site. But he also sits in on news meetings and occasionally gets involved in “hard” news. He has closed his Twitter account.
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which “going to college” means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors.
Thousands of fans gathered in Ashburn last week for the opening of Redskins training camp, separated from their oversize heroes by a long barricade.
To all of the bystanders reading this, pardon us. The true audience for this essay narrows necessarily to a pair of notables who have it in their power to save high-end journalism–two newspaper executives who can rescue an imploding industry and thereby achieve an essential civic good for the nation. It’s down to them….Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Katharine Weymouth, publishers of The New York Times and The Washington Post.
If you value your spare time, don’t start posting comments and reviews on Amazon, Mark Espinosa suggests.
“I spoke to a lovely reporter today,” wrote cwalken on his (or her) Twitter account this week. “I don’t know if she was really who she said she was but that’s fine. I secretly used an ironic tone.”
Sounds about right. But does anybody know who anybody really is anymore?
The popular cwalken Twitter feed, stocked with oddball observations that seem as if they could’ve popped out of the mouth of actor Christopher Walken, is read by more than 90,000 users. It is not, reportedly, written by Walken–though his picture is parked atop the page.
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside email accounts.
Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print–the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper presses stop rolling and news goes entirely digital.
“You’re fat!” screams the ad. But in an online world of supposedly hyper-targeted advertising it’s hard not to take offense. And offense the Washington Post’s Rachel Beckman takes.
Pandora is one of the nation’s most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple’s iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day.
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