Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing

Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas, Twitterature, or business huckster Garyvee? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see your precious 140-character musings on paper. Congrats! You're an author. More »

Twitter-Phobic Martha Stewart Fears Wrath of Snoop Dogg

Martha Stewart's all-internet-geek show was a clash of cultures just as we predicted. Here's a clip of the domestic media diva refusing former Valleywag Nick Douglas' entreaties to share a little backstage color. Stewart, you see, fears her guests. More »

You Wrote My Twitter Book, Now Promote It!

You have to admire the online chutzpah of HarperCollins and Nick Douglas. Having sourced the contents of Twitter Wit entirely for free from the microblogging service, the publisher is now attempting to crowdsource its marketing campaign. And so boldly! More »

AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds

AT&T, for reasons unknown at this point, has blocked user access to portions of 4chan, the online hangout for the world's most notorious cyber-terrorists. And they thought iPhone customers were a pain in their ass! This will end badly. More »

Warring Twitter Books in Publication Race

First came former Valleywag Nick Douglas' Twitter book deal with HarperCollins, followed within a month by New York Times columnist David Pogue and his similar compilation of tweets for O'Reilly. Now Pogue is trying to leapfrog. More »

What recession? More than 10,000 revelers are expected for this year's SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas this week. With no real work at hand, they're hitting the parties hard — especially the unofficial ones. More »