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The Twitterati Give Their Divorce Lawyer a Porn Name
The problem with Twitterati isn't so much oversharing as undercaring. Laurel Touby's apartment woes, Lockhart Steele's porn name, and Penelope Trunk's divorce bill are as good as the media elite's tweets get! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by JulesNoctambule: Penelope Trunk -- isn't she the one who stalked a guy about some comment he made and posted all about... 2 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Are Humbled by a Bollywood Martini
A proud lot, journalists — and yet so often they drown their sorrows in PB&J martinis. Or the sweet liqueur of Twitter. Jason Pontin, Ana Marie Cox, Susan Orlean and others shared their secret shames: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by the supergoddess: I can't believe I know that the PB&J Martini-making 'she' refers to Sandra Lee. 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Toss Their BlackBerry at Maureen Dowd
Dispatches from the land of Twitteronia: Penelope Trunk and Brooke Hammerling wrestled with their relationships, while Jason Pontin and Chris Lehmann wrestled with the facts. These are the fights Twitter always wins: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by propertius: The campaign to save porta-potties in SF from the nefarious arsonist has come to Twitter (@FlushArsonist). And Facebook (FlushArsonist)! Kind of hoping... more » | Other threads
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The Twitterati Will Have Painkillers, Two CDs, and a Martini
A Today anchorlady thinks her cohost is higher than a kite, a New Yorker aims to get drunk, Alex Balk perks up his ears, and everyone else pretends to work. The latest from Twitteronia: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by units: I'll bite: maybe Peter Kavka would like 2 CDs nuts, instead. more » | Other threads
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The Twitterati, Now Lazier Than Ever!
Why hit the phones when you can just do your work on Twitter? Jason Pontin, Caroline Waxler, and a Washington Post reporter show us how to tweetsource your way to more free time: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lulupasternak: Considering how badly Trunk needs investors, a cleaned-out In box is hardly a healthy sign. more » | Other threads
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A Day When None Rose Above
What's going on with our favorite Twitterati? Read what floats Jason Pontin's boat, discover the key to Shira Lazar's heart, and learn Aaron Task's wooing secrets. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by wanna_hear_about_my_fantasy_team?: SNOOOOOOZE. killthisfeaturekillthisfeaturekillthisfe... 1 Responses | Other threads
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What else must Jason Pontin do to prove he's not gay?
Congratulations to Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin. His wife, Boston Globe editor Anne Nelson, has validated his long-rumored but heretofore unproven heterosexuality through the birth of a son, Alonzo Pontin. Heir, heir! Jason, Valleywag will keep a summer internship slot open for Alonzo in 2027, provided he doesn't inherit his dad's obnoxiously fake British accent.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Pessimipposaurus: Sometimes the stork get the wrong directions on its Garmin. It's hard to input all that address using only its... more » | Other threads
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Jason Pontin coming out as straight next month
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin is bursting with pride. No, not the Clay Aiken sort: He is married — to a woman, one must specify, since this is Massachusetts — and the couple is expecting a child in mid-October. Oh, and his magazine has won some large number of awards from an industry trade publication, placing behind CRN for best online community. But how to explain his choice of wardrobe at the EmTech conference he is hosting? His hosiery recalls Nathan Lane's in The Birdcage. On the surface, Pontin's straightness remains as plausible as the former West Oakland resident's British accent. Update: Pontin adds, "Please mention my stylishly skinny Nudie jeans from Sweden." You're not helping, Jason.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Jackson West: I, for one, applaud the man for taking a sartorial chance. The jeans, though? Meh. more » | Other threads
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Technology Review editor addicted to Twitter, gossip
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — I'm here in the hub of the universe for EmTech, a conference thrown by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of self-importance. Jason Pontin, who is the magazine's editor-in-chief, publisher, and whatever title he's added last week, has just introduced Vinod Khosla, one of the venture-capital industry's brightest names. But is Pontin gazing raptly at Khosla, taking in his every word of wisdom? No, he is not. I can see his laptop screen from six rows away. He is using Twitter, a recent topic of obsession for him. This grand chronicler of innovation is whiling away the duration of Khosla's presentation 140 characters at a time. Oh, wait! I take that back. Now he's reading Valleywag.
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By Owen ThomasComment by michaellamb: Hi Jason.. just wanted to make sure you had a comment on your story. You're welcome. more » | Other threads
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Oversharing is over — save it for your book deal
Former blog queen Emily Gould suggests the rest of us delete, unfollow, cancel, and block ourselves from the Web. This is notable chiefly because Gould's last big appearance in print was an excessively detailed confessional of her online misadventures for the New York Times Magazine. The social media age is complicated, she complains in a writeup of Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody for MIT's Tech Review. Someone stop us before we blog again! More »
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Comment by Shadowlayer: So because her popularity peaked, nobody should use the same method she did? ¬_¬ more » | Other threads
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Flickr's Cal Henderson dumped by Technology Review covergirl Leah Culver
We've been remiss in informing you of this: Cal Henderson, the eminently scalable Flickr engineer, and Leah Culver, the shrill-voiced cofounder of Pownce, San Francisco's favorite way to share MP3 files while evading copyright cops, broke up some time ago. (We hear it wasn't exactly his idea.) But don't feel sorry for Henderson, or Culver. She has no shortage of suitors — including, it seems, Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin, who was taken enough with Culver to put her on his magazine's latest cover. Pontin's married, but a man can dream, can't he? Sorry, Jason: We now hear Culver's hooked up with a Googler. (Photo of Henderson by magerleagues)
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By Owen ThomasComment by inkvision: Wow. Geeks here sure are surly. Methinks they all are tasting the sour grapes that comes of never getting even... more » | Other threads
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Jason Pontin from the block
Don't be fooled by the titles that he's got (CEO, editor-in-chief, publisher, grand vizier, poo-bah). Jason Pontin from Technology Review reflects his Oakland-via-Oxford roots, styling an ironic hoodie under his suit jacket at the Valleywag/io9/Lifehacker party in Austin. -
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Jason Pontin's Facebook fallacy
It was all in good fun, I thought, to tease my former boss Jason Pontin, now editor of MIT's Technology Review, about using Facebook, of all things, to hunt for interesting startup ideas. But the well-meant mockery soon uncovered a deeper issue: My friend misunderstands how one is meant to use Facebook. Pontin, ever the technoliteralist, takes Facebook at its word, thinking of it as a tool to replicate real-world relationships. He misses the real use that self-promoters like Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble have discovered: Spamming the less-important people who have volunteered to be your "friends" — people who are really just fans, to whom you have no meaningful relationship. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Fname Lname: IRL, there are vastly different concepts of what is a real social network too. No surprise to see it... more » | Other threads
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Jason Pontin admits he has no ideas
We thought it amusing, if a bit sad, when Technology Review editor-in-chief started asking for startups to pitch him for his New York Times column on Facebook. But for him to continue the apparently unanswered plea, more than a week later? Maudlin veering on pathetic. Please, someone with an interesting startup to profile — do yourself a favor, stop flinging yourself on the rocky shoals of Valleywag, and try Pontin instead. We hear he's easy.
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By Owen ThomasComment by TheTypeset: Owen Thomas, if this works I'll start subscribing to CNBC and tell them your cameos are the reason. more » | Other threads
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