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		<title>How About #Dontvoteforme, So BoomTown Gets the No. 140 Spot in Time&#039;s Tweet-Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<p>Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine&#8217;s &#8220;140 Best Twitter Feeds.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why? Well, there&#8217;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&#8211;<em>get it?</em>&#8211;slot on a Twitter poll is the next best thing to aim for.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the deal, according to the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2058946,00.html">magazine&#8217;s Web site</a>:</p>
<p>&#8220;TIME picks the 140 Twitter feeds that are shaping the conversation. Take a look and vote on whether you think these top tweeters should be on our list.&#8221;</p>
<p>The list is split up into categories, such as authors (Neil Gaiman, who is #1, and Margaret Atwood), celebrities (Gaga and the inevitable Justin Bieber) and companies (Zappos and Whole Foods).</p>
<p>There is also a technology group, with luminaries such as New York VC Fred Wilson, man-about-Web Kevin Rose and, of course, the King of Tweets Robert Scoble.</p>
<p>I am in that group too, with <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058946_2058939_2058932,00.html">the description</a>: &#8220;When this woman reports a rumor, you can pretty much count on it to be true.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks&#8230;<em>I think</em>&#8211;although I prefer to call it reporting a <em>fact</em>.</p>
<p>In any case, early on, I was doing badly in the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058946_2060626,00.html">voting</a>&#8211;as I had hoped and is entirely correct considering I am unknown to anyone but certain geeks&#8211;and was right near the bottom with some suspect deal sites.</p>
<p>But by last night, GigaOm&#8217;s Om Malik had dropped below me, along with Wilson. I was at the unacceptable 131 spot.</p>
<p>This will not stand! Thus, so I can shoot the moon, I urge everyone to vote for:</p>
<p>132	Mike Allen<br />
133	Om Malik<br />
134	Amazon Deals<br />
135	Fred Wilson<br />
136	DealDivine<br />
137	Nieman Lab<br />
138	Best Buy Deals<br />
139	Coupons.com<br />
140  Steven Johnson</p>
<p>A well-known writer and entrepreneur, Johnson has 1.4 million followers on Twitter and does not deserve this ignominious loss as much as me.</p>
<p>Tweet that.</p>
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		<title>Michael Wolff Has Been Trash-Talking the Internet Since 1998&#8211;See the Video!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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."]]></description>
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<p>Ah, Michael Wolff! Always throwing stink bombs and making deliciously wackadoo declarations about the Internet.</p>
<p>This time, it&#8217;s in a dinner <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2008/12/michael_wolffs_1.html">interview the author had with BusinessWeek&#8217;s media columnist Jon Fine</a> recently.</p>
<p>Wolff (pictured here) slaps around the News Corp. (NWS) social-networking site MySpace with a series of his trash-buckling phrases, some of which are true and some a bit more of a stretch.</p>
<p>But he sure is entertaining!</p>
<p>One of Wolff&#8217;s more controversial moments:</p>
<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re on MySpace now, you&#8217;re a [expletive] cretin. And you&#8217;re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you&#8217;re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is vintage Wolff, to make a big hissy-fit fuss at an opportune time.</p>
<p><em>Surprise!</em> His latest book, a bio of media mogul Rupert Murdoch (who owns this site), titled &#8220;The Man Who Owns The News,&#8221; is coming out right about now.</p>
<p>And speaking of vintage, Wolff can be seen in the video below whacking away at the early Internet just over a decade ago, with me and Feed&#8217;s Steven Johnson in an appearance on the &#8220;Charlie Rose&#8221; television show.</p>
<p>It was the era of AOL&#8217;s dominance, with Yahoo (YHOO) as the comer and Web 1.0 in its fully overvalued glory.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s craziness, it&#8217;s loco, it makes no sense,&#8221; said Wolff about the Internet, circa July 27, 1998.</p>
<p>His caustically funny book &#8220;Burn Rate&#8221; on his naughty early Internet adventures, wherein he was the only person <em>not</em> to get rich in Web 1.0, had just come out.</p>
<p>(And I had just come out with my book on the rise of AOL&#8211;the fall of AOL sequel came out in 2003.)</p>
<p>Later in the interview, Wolff could not help himself and makes a truly bad prediction: &#8220;I think the myth of the Internet is that it is going to come into everybody&#8217;s home.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oops, the Web is pretty much ubiquitous only 10 years later.</p>
<p>But Wolff does go on to make a lot of the same salient points he makes today about MySpace and the Web&#8217;s hot-today-gone-tomorrow ethos.</p>
<p>The video of our segment starts at the 30-minute mark.</p>
<p>Michael has not aged a day, but please, please excuse my shoulder pads and deeply unfortunate haircut (how did I ever get a date?):</p>
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