Mary Hadar emailed her friends today:
Isn’t it time for you to get a Twitter account? By golly, it is!
How else will you know what’s happening 150 years ago? Have you thought about that?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/2010/12/the_situation_in.html
Mary was the editor of the WPost Style section until she retired not long ago. We met over a Caribbean Thanksgiving dinner in St. Martin, where she and her husband, Robert, and National Geographic stars Mary and Tom Smith, (ret.) have celebrated together for maybe 20 years.
By golly, Mary, I went out and signed up for Twitter. Actually, re-signed up, since I joined at Stanford nearly four years ago when a Web futurist for IBM advised me that Twitter was hot and I needed to join. I did…but, no one I knew was on, so B-O-R-I-N-G, and besides, I figured if e-mail had pushed me over the line into ADD territory, that Twitter would turn me into a drooling, twitching looney tunes.
But…how can I resist updates to the Civil War in “real” time? I am fed up with real news. The hell with the never-ending, never–winning war on terrorism, the new Cyber War (even though I loved the Dragon Girl), the new war on loopholes on taxes…like the ones I use, ie deductions for interest on my mortgage.
By the way…the first shots of the Civil War were fired on January 10, 1861 in South Carolina. So we’re still in the build-up for a war, which, from my point-of-view…was won by the right side.
PPS: My twitter handle is: @CathyHealy
Hooray!
I follow @washingtonpost and other news outlets. It is headline after headlines with links to online articles. I don’t read every one. Just like when I read the physical paper, I read the ones that are interesting to me.
Curious way to tap into how one “reads the paper”.
It’s my Twewspaper.