3 posts and columns on Steven Johnson

How About #Dontvoteforme, So BoomTown Gets the No. 140 Spot in Time's Tweet-Off

in News on March 29, 2011 at 8:35 am PT

Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds.” Why? Well, there’s no way I am getting near the top with the likes of Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga in the same list, so I felt the 140th–get it?–slot on a Twitter poll is the next best thing to aim for.

Michael Wolff Has Been Trash-Talking the Internet Since 1998–See the Video!

in News on December 2, 2008 at 2:39 am PT

Ah, Michael Wolff! Always throwing stink bombs and making deliciously wackadoo declarations about the Internet. In a recent dinner interview the author had with BusinessWeek’s media columnist Jon Fine this week, Wolff slaps around News Corp. social network MySpace, with a series of his trash-buckling phrases, some of which are true and some a bit more of a stretch. But it’s par for the course for Wolff, as you can see here in an appearance with BoomTown on the “Charlie Rose” show a decade ago. “It’s craziness, it’s loco, it makes no sense,” said Wolff about the Internet, circa July 27, 1998. And later: “I think the myth of the Internet is that it is going to come into everybody’s home.”