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Twitter Didn’t Kill Gordon Lightfoot. Big Media Did.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 19, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

It’s easy to blame Twitter for falsely reporting that the guy who sings “Sundown” is dead. But you can’t pin this one on the messaging service or its users, who were merely repeating what a big Canadian news service had told them.

Exposed “Skank” Blogger Threatens Google With Privacy Suit, Is Happy to Talk About It

Peter Kafka in Media on August 24, 2009 at 7:36 am PT

What do you do if you’re a blogger who thinks your privacy has been unfairly violated? If you’re Rosemary Port, you threaten to file a high-profile lawsuit, then go to newspapers and TV networks to talk about it. That’s the strategy Port is pursuing now that she’s been outed as the “skank blogger”–the person who used Google’s Blogger service to anonymously insult former model Liskula Cohen.