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The Twitterati Destroy the News

Owen Thomas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:03:45 EST

Credulous bloggers think Twitter will make more money than newspapers! That's a low bar. In the meantime, the media's Twitter addicts from the New York Times to ReadWriteWeb prove how value-free the status-updating service is:

ReadWriteWeb tech blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick got really excited about a Liberian paper's summary of an English translation by AOL of a Colombian magazine's weeks-old story about a romance between Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helù and Jordan's Queen Noor, which was shot down by Slim's spokesman the day it appeared in Mexico City tabloids.
East Village Idiot blogger Chris O'Leary was unimpressed with Newsweek's redesign.
Rachel Sklar, Dan Abrams's gal Friday, fled an advertising-free New York.
VentureBeat blogger Eric Eldon heard that Facebook might change its homepage at some point in the future.
New York Times please-don't-call-him-a-blogger Brian Stelter played videogames in the middle of a workday.
Anyone else's tweets we should keep an eye on? Send us more Twitter usernames, please — or email us your favorite tweets.

Site you don't read has work you might need

Paul Boutin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:20:00 EDT

"We're not doing this because of the wave of layoffs," pleads ReadWriteWeb editor Marshall Kirkpatrick, announcing a new site-within-a-site called Jobwire at his also-ran business blog. It's true, Jobwire has been in the works for some time. But Kirkpatrick, who chronicles tech startup trends for a living, forgot to lay off a token employee last week. Now everyone thinks wrong: Either they believe Jobwire missed its launch window ("on schedule for next week," Kirkpatrick tweeted 12 days ago), or worse, they presume this is a hastily-assembled attempt to cash in on the sudden glut of unemployed Web workers. Poor guy. I'll probably end up working for him.

Is Amazon.com supporting Google's Facebook killer? Don't ask

Tim Faulkner — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:28:10 EST

Read/WriteWeb last night reported that Amazon.com will announce today, among other things, support of Google's OpenSocial Web widget platform in all of its applications going forward. Now Google can tout Amazon's support for its rival platform to extend social networks. Or can it? Amazon flacks, after sending Read/WriteWeb a press release about the move, are now retracting it and claiming the company is not adopting OpenSocial. Or if it is, they're pretending they don't know about it.

Read/WriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick Twitters:

Update: Amazon contacted us this morning to let us know that though they sent us a draft press release, they are not in fact making any such announcement, they are not supporting OpenSocial and if they were it would still be under embargo anyway despite the date on said release.

In other words, yes, Amazon is probably supporting OpenSocial. Adding the online retailer to the list of OpenSocial supporters would certainly be a major help to Google's assault on Facebook. Amazon helped launch Facebook's apps platform, and in the buildup to Facebook's Social Ads announcement, everyone used Amazon as an example of its potential power. Last week, however, Amazon was nowhere to be found.

Apparently, though, Jeff Bezos & Co. aren't prepared to diss Facebook quite yet. Amazon's PR team messed up and hopes we'll just ignore their own press releases, or honor some after-the-fact embargo. Sorry. Even when done right, the day of the embargo is over.

STD dating site scratches TechCrunch writer's itch

Nick Douglas — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:30:44 EDT

TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick must be trying to outdo his boss Michael Arrington and his porn browser review. But how exactly did he discover that "there are scores of STD dating sites online"?

What really scares me is this line: "Unfortunately, users are unable to search for people with more than one condition - something I imagine would be important."

"Imagine." Sure. If anyone sees Marshall scratching some hard-to-reach places at the next TechCrunch party, give him some room.

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