Well, the NY Times beat me to it. Sort of.
I’ve been meaning to write something on the consequences of celebrity tweeting for writers for weeks now. I think there’s a whole new career path here.
It’s clear that while Tweeting adds considerable value to a celebrity’s profile, it’s also something he or she can get seriously [...]
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March 27, 2009
A Growth Market for Writers: Celebrity GhostTweeter
February 24, 2009
Geography as journalistic destiny
Since I was writing recently about the Bay Area’s unique creative culture, it’s interesting (to me at least) to note that Ready Made magazine is moving from Berkeley to Des Moines, Iowa. There was a thoughtful dissection of what that might mean for the magazine in last Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle.
“The move raises the question [...]
March 20, 2008
Finding the time to think
That’s the biggest challenge facing Americans today, writes Andrew Razeghi in a recent and thought-provoking San Francisco Chronicle editorial.
American lifestyles — and workstyles — allow for little but specialization at work and few interests, sports, hobbies or pastimes outside of it, he argues.
Partly, Razeghi wants to highlight the productive value of having ‘amateurs’ engage [...]



September 16, 2009
Joe Wilson hires a professional tweeter
Not so long ago I wrote about ghost tweeting as a growth market for writers.
So it was interesting to see that pretty much as soon as US Representative Joe Wilson made a national name for himself by heckling the President last week, he went out and hired himself a ghost, or professional, twitterer.
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