Peter Kafka in Media on July 27, 2010 at 5:23 am PT
The Web there works well enough for Sarah Palin, but a big swath of the state is still on “narrowband”. And if you’ve got a need for speed? Get thee to Wilmington.
Kara Swisher in News on July 2, 2010 at 11:01 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown posted
Part One of an interview with Microsoft’s Greg Nelson and Yahoo’s Mark Morrissey.
They are in charge of a two-year effort to coordinate a massive search and online advertising partnership, the result of a deal the companies struck last year.
Here’s the second part of the hour-long chat we had.
Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2009 at 12:06 am PT
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is certainly giving her Facebook fan page a workout this week, as she nears one million fans.
Using the site to flack her new book, “Going Rogue,” which comes out officially today, it got a big boost from her interview today with Oprah Winfrey, clocking in at close to 995,000 fans last night.
In comparison, her Twitter page was as empty of followers as the great outdoors.
Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 14, 2009 at 9:37 am PT
Has Sarah Palin rejoined the Twittering masses after nearly three weeks of silence? According to CNN, she’s back, picking up the name “SarahPalinUSA.”
The former Alaska governor stopped using her previous account, AKGovSarahPalin, on July 26, her last day in office. Her farewell tweet: “Last state twitter. Thank you Alaska! I love you. God bless Alaska. God bless the U.S.A.”
Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 3, 2009 at 8:06 am PT
An online twist in a hotly contested race for mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla., could signal trouble for local politicians advertising on popular Web sites like Google, Facebook and Twitter.
Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2009 at 2:53 am PT
In a genius pairing of subject and artist, here is the best online viral video this week from Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show,” featuring actor William Shatner reciting outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s recent farewell speech verbatim.
You simply
can’t make this stuff up.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 6, 2009 at 1:05 pm PT
Vanity Fair’s prescient decision to put all of Todd Purdum’s Sarah Palin profile on the Web last week paid off big on Friday. But it would have done even better had the story featured a slideshow with photographs of attractive young women.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 17, 2009 at 12:47 pm PT
Everything about “National Buy A Newspaper Day” makes me sad. Except for the passion of the 24-year-old newspaper reporter from Fairbanks, Alaska, who is organizing it.
Kara Swisher in News on November 26, 2008 at 4:00 am PT
Our friends at JibJab whipped up another odd video for us for the Thanksgiving holidays.
BoomTown is thankful for our great All Things D staff, as well as our amazing readers. Also this year, for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, without whom there would be no news.
We’ll be publishing more lightly after tonight, but there will still be news over the holiday, so keep checking back for posts all weekend long.
