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Jul 06

Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? -

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Kids:

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…

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Jul 05

dvdp: Astronomical is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres. - by Mishka Henner//via olena

dvdp:

Astronomical is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres. - by Mishka Henner

//via olena

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Jul 03

Rob Delaney: Funny Women -

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The New York Post published an interview with Adam Carolla on Sunday in which he said, among other things, “dudes are funnier than chicks,” and, regarding writing for television, “they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they’re always the least funny on the writing staff.”

I disagree,…

daniel sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil -

sinker:

Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”

First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much…

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TWITTER: @Sreenet’s Twitter Guide for Newbies & Skeptics

sreetips:

Twitter Ideas: A work in progress by @sreenet
[shortcut for this page at http://bit.ly/twitterideas ]

Suggestions welcome: sree[at]sree.net

WORKSHOP: FOUR THURSDAYS IN OCTOBER (+1 optional session!), Oct 7, 14, 21 & 28; 6:30 - 9 p.m, Columbia J-school: Social Media for Journalists, Bloggers & Media Professionals - register here

MY FEED: @sreenet - http://www.twitter.com/sreenet 
MY SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIDE: http://bit.ly/sreesoc - tips, handouts, tools and more
MY WORKSHOPS: http://bit.ly/workshops - events around the country
MY SOCIAL MEDIA SYLLABUS: http://bit.ly/socmediaskills - a five-week course at Columbia Journalism School

This is meant to be a way to introduce Twitter to skeptics and newbies and is NOT comprehensive.

==>A big welcome to the TechCrunch readers who are here thanks to the mention in  @vwadhwa’s piece on why Twitter is his only social-networking tool.

[Many thanks to @NatIves for putting me on Ad Age’s 25 media people to follow. Also, thank you to OnlineSchools for putting me on Top 100 Twitterers in Academia. Armed with these, I can… well, what, exactly?]

*** MY TWO WEBCASTS WITH ALL-STAR TWEETING JOURNOS:
http://bit.ly/columbiajtw2

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