Monday, March 04, 2013
Mets Publicist Horwitz Embraces Twitter - NYTimes.com - Andrew Keh - Horwitz may never release a tell-all, but just over a month ago he produced the next best thing: @Jay_HorwtizPR, a Twitter account that is emerging as a pure distillation of his character. -- Horwitz began posting in January at the urging of Jeff Wilpon, the team’s chief operating officer. Wilpon gave him no strict instructions, other than to be himself. - And Horwitz was offered a deal: if he could accrue 10,000 followers before midnight the first day, Wilpon would donate $10,000 to charity. Horwitz, getting help from the Mets’ players online, reached the number, and Wilpon wrote a check to Hope Shines for Shannon, which benefits Shannon Forde, a Mets public relations staffer who is battling breast cancer.
Feb 26, 2013: Sequestration Cuts Crisis Makes Me Want to Strangle Both Sides | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone - The whole situation reminds one of a family so dysfunctional that its members can't communicate except through desperate acts. Mom keeps getting found passed out next to empty bottles of aspirin or mouthwash, Dad keeps getting pulled over for DUIs with hookers in the passenger seat, sis listens to death metal and is saving up for a bus ticket to meet some 40-year-old in Montana she met on the Internet – but you'd never know it on most days because nobody in this family talks.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin feels 'emasculated' by smartphones - The Independent - Google's new internet glasses could hit the market this year freeing up web-browsers from "emasculating" smartphones, the search-engine co-founder Sergey Brin has said. -- Google Glass is, in essence, a wearable computer - the glasses contain a small computer, a camera and a wireless link. They present the user with a “heads up display” - which they can voice activate. - Capable of giving an “augmented reality” to viewers they could transform our computer habits.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
GOP Creamed in Budget Polls - The Daily Beast - Howard Kurtz - In a Washington Post/ABC poll, 67 percent disapprove of the way that Republicans are handling federal spending. Obama’s 52 percent disapproval rating looks better only by comparison. - But here’s the killer for the GOP: Fifty-one percent of Republicans deliver a negative verdict on their party’s handling of the spending issue. - In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, just 29 percent say they agree with what the Republicans want to do in Congress, compared with 45 percent who agree with Obama’s agenda.
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