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BoomTown Is Back (Just as Everyone Leaves for Burning Man)

Kara Swisher in News on August 31, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

From vacation, that is–an activity that I highly recommend (and getting toasted at Burning Man this week does not count, although that is also apparently highly recommended in order to endure that digital dustfest). In any case, we begin Yahoo memo-bombing in five minutes. That is all.

"Inane and Half-Baked" Twitter Is the Forrest Gump of International Relations

Kara Swisher in News on June 16, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

In what is quite possibly the most spot-on comment about Twitter that BoomTown has heard thus far, Harvard University Professor Jonathan Zittrain said about its use by Iranians protesting the election results there: “It is easy for Twitter feeds to be echoed everywhere else in the world. The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what make it so powerful.” In other words, Twitter is so simplistic and silly that it is a perfect digital tool to overthrow a government–which kind of makes the trendy microblogging service the Forrest Gump of international relations.