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Horror of horrors—I am finally done with newspapers
What did it? Twitter. O.k., I may be late to the game, many people I know have stopped reading newspapers a long time ago. By newspapers I mean their physical incarnations. Many of my colleagues and friends have turned to online news sites, magazines, and blogs. For me, however, these somehow didn’t provide a good substitute for the “real” thing, particularly as the “real” thing was such a big part of my morning “news with coffee” ritual. Even when I stopped reading the New York Times in the morning for news, I still read it for feature articles and deep analysis. T
Twitter makes itself useful
Rather, the people of San Francisco trying to get a glimpse of the Olympic Torch on Wednesday made Twitter useful. With the officials faking out everyone by throwing the torch on a bus and driving it to Van Ness to start an alternate route, connected citizens began to "tweet" the torch's whereabouts, whether rumors overheard on the street or information from traditional news media. Olympic Torch SF organized the Twitter profile for the event, and all of the tweets can be viewed at SFTorch.
