Archive for July, 2009

url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/19/urban-dictionary-adds-twitterdead/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Emily Miller at www.PoliticsDaily.com coined the term. TwitterDead is defined as someone who is said to have died in a tweet, which is retweeted so often that it trends in Twitter so others believe the celebrity is Really Dead. (If you can’t follow the previous sentence, you need to get a lesson on Twitter...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/17/sarah-palin-and-mitt-romney-fundraising-for-2012-white-house/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC'; Surprising the inside-the-Beltway crowd, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised $732,867 in the first half of 2009. SarahPAC, her Washington, D.C.-area fundraising organization, has proven to be organized and effective, despite reports to the contrary. The FEC filing for Jan. 1-June 15, 2009 shows that SarahPAC had 709 itemized donor receipts, some of which...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/17/sarah-palin-promises-to-be-less-politically-correct-on-twitter/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC'; Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin let everyone know on Twitter that she is just 10 days from throwing off the reins of elected office to go rogue. Referencing her announcement to step down as governor on July 26, she posted this tweet Friday: “elected is replaceable;Ak WILL progress! + side benefit=10 dys til less...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/15/a-local-family-adopts-a-green-lifestyle/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC'; Having young children made one local couple see both their home and the world differently. In the past five years, they have gone from Range Rover to Prius and from carbon footprint to carbon toeprint. “Going Green” for these parents means creating a safer home their two young children and preserving the earth...
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According to Corcoran, blogger Emily Miller coined the term TwitterDead to describe the cyber-deceased. Writing for Politics Daily, Miller explained: TwitterDead is defined as someone who is said to have died in a tweet, which is retweeted so often that it trends in Twitter so others believe the celebrity is Really Dead. (For the uninitiated, a...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/13/obama-to-hone-his-pitch-in-broadcast-booth-at-all-star-game/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowds . . . President Obama will be in the Fox broadcast booth at the 80th Major League Baseball All-Star game in St. Louis tomorrow, according to Sports Illustrated. The First Sportscaster is scheduled to join announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/10/sarah-palin-loves-twitter/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';After vicious personal attacks against her and her family, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is circumventing mainstream media and communicating directly with the public via the social networking site Twitter. Like the scene from “Network,” the classic movie satire of network television news, Palin is essentially sticking her head out the window and yelling: “I’m...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/10/emily%e2%80%99s-post-reese-witherspoon-washington-whirwhind/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC'; Reese Witherspoon has finished filming a movie in DC and gone home to LA. Let us have a moment of silence to remember the weeks we had the perfect, blonde, sprite in our midst. I tried to see her in real life, but the gods were against me (as were the doormen at...
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This is not the case on Twitter, which is just as useful for disseminating bad tips as good ones. The blogger Emily Miller at Politics Daily has coined the term TwitterDead to refer to victims of the latest hoaxes. Biz Stone, a founder of Twitter, said by e-mail, “We don’t typically identify rumors as abuse,...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/07/09/ensign-edwards-sanford-adultery-god/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) wrote to his mistress: “God never intended for us to do this… He wants to restore Darlene + me + wants to restore Doug + you. More than that He wants to restore our relationship to Him.” Former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) said on ABC of his extramarital affair: “In...
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