I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
