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Aug 11, 2010
May 08, 2010
» Conan on writing
Conan O’Brien on Twitter as a tool for writing:
What’s interesting about Twitter is that because you’re limited to 140 characters … it’s actually a great comedy-writing tool. There’s this economy of words. So I’m constantly writing things, and I run them past [Blair] and he’ll say that’s actually three words over. That forces you to look back at the sentence. It forces you to crystalize your comedy idea, which is fascinating.Smart. More in the video, and outtakes from Google where the interview took place.
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Jan 27, 2010
“ I’ve heard this story again and again from those who’ve risen into the lower ranks of microfame. At a few hundred or a few thousand followers, they’re having fun — but any bigger and it falls apart. Social media stops being social. It’s no longer a bantering process of thinking and living out loud. It becomes old-fashioned broadcasting. The lesson? There’s value in obscurity.
— Clive Thompson, “In Praise of Obscurity”
Nov 06, 2009
Nov 05, 2009
Sep 18, 2009
New Lynda Barry pages.
Who says Twitter isn’t good for anything?
a loyal follower tweeted that they would like to see some pages from the latest Lynda Barry book so here they are.
Thank me, people.
May 06, 2009
Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)
I read somewhere years ago that birdsong is really just a way for the bird to say, “bird here!” and all the music is just lagniappe, which can be extrapolated in humans to “Mozart here!” or “Leadbelly here!” or “Britney Spears here!”
(Thompson is @pooralmanack on twitter)
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