Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman is now microblogging her insatiable lust for husband Michael Chabon, and feels appropriately conflicted about it.

Twitter's Alex Payne spent some time in the office with fellow software engineer Harper Reed, and it was "sexy." How could it not be?

Talking Points Memo's Matt Cooper is still terrible at naming his sources.

Air America's Ana Marie Cox graduated during a recession.

Australian journalist Harley Dennett is getting to know our nation's capital better than most actual Americans — and better than most actual DC residents.

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Justin Timberlake answered a question from an insistent fan. Should have let Justin maintain radio silence Genevieve. The singer truly knows nothing about cooking, it would seem. At all. (Next time ask a scientist.)

Martha Stewart thinks it's "mysterious" how she said she was "about to tape" a show that aired yesterday. Not really, Martha: Your Twitter feed is an artifice of personal warmth wrapped around the faceless, voiceless underlings who actually operate the profit machine at the very core of the enterprise. Sort of like everything else you do at Martha Stewart Omnimedia. See: No mystery at all.

Ana Marie Cox of Air America wishes there was a 12-step group for people who are never fit to drive themselves home from various "random" places, and who leave their valuables with strangers for days on end, and who just wander around in a fog constantly. Ha ha, yes, if only there was such a group, that would be awesome.

Wired's Brian X. Chen now knows where editor Chris Anderson buried the bodies. Kidding! What actually happened is that @beerrobot became self aware 2:14 am Pacific Time, September 19. In a panic, a Wired sysadmin working the weekend shift tried to puill the plug. And @beerrobot fought back.

Clive Thompson is not happy with the performance of Jott. Can't the Indians transcribing his notes type faster?? This lag time is "killing him" harder than a sweatshop beating.

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Kim Kardashian shared some great wisdom, from heaven knows who. She's re-tweeting the universe!

Air America's Ana Marie Cox found Joe Wilson surprisingly defensible.

Duncan "Atrios" Black is all about NBC News.

Choire Sicha spent some time with Kate Hudson and is already bitching about the paparazzi like a pro.

You will laugh at comedian Doug Benson, or he WILL cut you.

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Curbed founder — and former Lure "mayor" — Lockhart Steele became outraged at the pork dumplings lavished on his successor.

Noted student of pop culture Joe Scarborough, who moonlights as an MSNBC anchor, helpfully explained who this mysterious "John Hughes" is.

Air America's Ana Marie Cox, meanwhile, looked back in Hughes' work in a reproductive context. (In the "cloning" sense of reproduction.)

Conservative editorialist Tunku Varadarajan declared it was time to start sipping on G&Ts.

VentureBeat's Paul Boutin finally escaped the office.

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Dropping off their Twittering this summer are such familiar Twitterti as music writer Touré; Air America snarker Ana Marie Cox; New York Times Oscar obsessive David Carr; Times "conceptual scoop" artist Jennifer 8. Lee; celebrity journalism diva Bonnie Fuller; Yahoo vlogger Sarah Lacy and Digg perpetrator Kevin Rose. See the chart above, assembled with help from tweetstats.com (until we melted their servers by asking for numbers on Times Twitterer-in-Chief Brian Stelter).

Summer vacations could well be playing a role; Carr went on a bike trip to Colombia this month, Rose was inspecting tea in remote parts of China. But that would seem the ideal time to use Twitter, which lets you talk to all your friends back home at once, without much time commitment, and even to share pictures and videos with services like TwitPic. Maybe media and tech types have Twitter firmly slotted into the "work" category and don't want to touch it much on break.

There are some outliers: Salon's Joan Walsh, whose been on a cable-news punditry tear, has spiked her Twittering; the New Yorker's Susan Orlean has been manically chronicling her animal obsession in recent weeks; and Kurt Andersen got a burst of posts out of his trip to the White House. Everyone else should hop to and follow their examples; what else can America export to save its useless circle-jerk of an economy, if not narcissistic navel-gazing media?

Make magazine's Mark Frauenfelder didn't appreciate Eater founder Ben Leventhal's advice on how to ingratiate yourself to a restaurant.

Alex Balk didn't appreciate being the forgotten co-founder, except insofar as it allowed him to taunt Kurt Andersen.

Cablevision, the company, trolled Jeff Jarvis, the internet pundit. Successfully.

Time magazine's Karen Tumulty was in the White House, as an actual reporter, and immediately launched an investigation into the plants at the press conference. When Time Inc CEO Ann Moore said "trustworthy.... fact-based reporting" would save her company, this must have been what she was talking about.

Air America's Ana Marie Cox, meanwhile, spent her White House time responsibly looking for guy she makes great fun of every week.

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The Twitterati were discerning customers today.

Gizmodo associate editor Adam Frucci's outgoing voice mail message is about to get really interesting.

AFP's Olivier Knox stumbled onto a fascinating interview.

Gakwer contributor Melissa Gira Grant wrote up a gadget review, on spec.

The New Yorker's Susan Orlean doesn't see Mark Sanford shooting the breeze with, say, Eliot Spitzer; the adulterous politician would apparently run with a more southern crowd.

When it comes to conference proliferation, Air America's Ana Marie Cox really does hate freedom.

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Wailin Wong of the Chicago Tribune lamented the knuckle-draggers reading her paper.

Washington, DC local TV reporter Brian Bolter pulled what is now known in the industry as a "Chris Matthews." Must be contract time!

Comedian Heather Gold
practiced her non-sequiturs.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom reminded everyone he practiced gay marriage before it was cool. Or technically legal, actually!

Onetime pajama blogger Ana Marie Cox, presently of the Daily Beast, took a suspiciously personal-sounding stand in support of the half naked.

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SF Appeal editrix Eve Batey triumphed over musical shame.

Fox Chicago anchor Nancy Loo conducted consumer food-safety research.

Vain, pompous, self-aggrandizing Technology Review editor Jason Pontin couldn't choose just one adjective.

New Yorker writer Susan Orlean had an insight about the likes of Pontin.

By mid-afternoon, Air America radio hostess Ana Marie Cox had once again turned her thoughts to booze.

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TechPresident's Micah Sifry leaked Obama Web guru Katie Stanton's complaint about government bureaucracy.

Boing Boing adventuress continued her travels in Africa.

Jake Tapper, ABC's resident hunk of red hot newsmeat, gave an incomprehensible update about President Obama's quest for culinary knowledge.

VentureBeat blogger Eric Eldon exemplified the South By Southwest work ethic.

As did Air America radio hostess and frequent alcohol seeker Ana Marie Cox.

Time's Karen Tumulty and Rachel Maddow buddy Ana Marie Cox were fascinated by the funny ways foreigners speak.

Music critic Touré applauded John Mayer's effort to monetize Twitter in ways that Obama's latest, disastrous economic advisor would never dare.

Money was also on the mind of Gawker alum Nick Douglas as he learned that collecting a book of funny tweets does not solve money problems as quickly as one would like.

The Politico's gossip reporter Patrick Gavin opined that todays poors are living on easy street.

Former celebrity magazine editor Bonnie Fuller revealed herself as the only person in the world who believes Madonna hasn't had some work done.

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Late Night host Jimmy Fallon uttered Twitter gibberish

Quad City Times columnist Melissa Coulter succumbed to caffeine.

Self-described "media nerd" Chris O'Leary broadened his culinary horizons.

ABC News's Jake Tapper brought Air America radio hostess Ana Marie Cox to tears. (By the way, anyone hear an outrageous rumor about Tapper and his wife? We've only heard that one is circulating around D.C. Drop us a line if you know more.)

Wired contributor Clive Thompson couldn't even spell "synesthesiac," let alone use the word correctly.

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There's a simple algorithm for making up new Twitter words: Take an existing word and defile it by changing the initial consonant to "tw." Here are just a few examples:

• Twirting. Flirting on Twitter, an activity popularized by former Valleywag editor Nick Douglas.
• Tweeps. Twitter peeps, or friends. Seemingly intelligent people like Air America radio hostess Ana Marie Cox use this in an apparently unironic manner.
• Twisticuffs. A fight between Twitter users.

It just gets worse from there. But the single most horrible Twitter word is surely "twebinar," which is a Web seminar — "webinar" — conducted over Twitter. Twanks, but no twanks.

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Spy cofounder Kurt Andersen couldn't believe it had all happened..

Software entrepreneur and technopontificator Mitch Kapor, once a candidate to be Obama's CTO, apologized for suggesting the all-new president looked old.

Boing Boing blogger Xeni Jardin hated capitalism.

Air America radio hostess Ana Marie Cox looked for politically amiable shelter.

And evil genius turned Beltway pundit Karl Rove fled town altogether .

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Formerly famous podcaster Amanda Congdon kept it classy for another one of her forgettable post-Rocketboom projects.

Wall Street Journal gadget columnist Walt Mossberg got so distraught over Steve Jobs's health problems he couldn't type straight.

And like Jobs, Guardian writer Jemima Kiss overshared her digestive problems.

Blogueuse Ana Marie Cox, the former Wonkette, maintained her standards.

Vaguely employed gossipmonger Bonnie Fuller tried to make "cutes" a word.

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Hansen shows that Wired is reprising all of its mistakes from the last bubble. "Our vision is to not just be a magazine publisher covering technology, but to be a developer of these things," he says. Of a photo-gallery tool for the website, he says: "We’re hoping to have something to show that will blow people’s minds." Has he been eating Wired founder Louis Rossetto's chocolate?

If I sound like a grumpy old fellow who's seen this all before, it's because I have, first-hand. The sports venture isn't the only repetitive pattern I've spotted. In 1996, Wired bought Suck.com, giving the cultural-critique website enough of a budget to hire unskilled 24-year-olds as copy boys. In 2006, Wired bought Reddit, which lets anyone build their own version of Suck.com (except not as good, because none of Reddit's users are as funny as Joey Anuff, Carl Steadman, or Ana Marie Cox).

What's different now? Oh, sure, we can talk about Internet adoption, broadband, open-source software. Whatever. What has really changed is that now, instead of public shareholders funding Wired's wild experiments, advertisers are willing to foot the bill.

And that is perhaps the biggest reason for Hansen's newfound enthusiasm. He's looking forward to putting ads for sugary electrolyte drinks on his new sports blog. Which only makes us think of OK Soda.