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9 Surprising Things That Tweet

9 Surprising Things That Tweet

One of these days we plan to set our office coffee mugs up with Twitter accounts, so they can tells us when they are getting nearly empty, when they need cleaning, when they are being used for substances other than coffee, and the like. If nothing else, it’ll help maintain office sanity. Judging by the [...]

Time Magazine's Top 10 Buzzwords of 2008

Time Magazine’s Top 10 Buzzwords of 2008

Those mainstream mediators at TIME have released their annual list of lists, and among the most fascinating is their hierarchy of time-capsule buzzwords. Their Top 10 Buzzwords listicle goes like so:

1. Change: The all-pervasive shorthand for Barack Obama’s campaign, uses of “change” in 2008 automatically assumed a time of hardship and a vague, knee-jerk optimism, [...]

Shaquille O'Neal's Top 10 Tweets

Shaquille O’Neal’s Top 10 Tweets

Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal has always packed an oversized personality into an oversized frame, incurring a bit of mockery along the way (see: MadTV’s cross-eyed parody, every reference ever to Kazaam). So when a Shaq impostor joined the social networking service Twitter, Kathleen Hessert of consulting firm Sports Media Challenge helped the Phoenix Suns [...]