Clearing the Cache: Tweeting from Mount Rushmore...Actually, *on* Mount Rushmore

Nancy Scola | July 8, 2009 - 12:00pm | Email This!

  • Greenpeace is doing a series of actions in favor of clean energy around the occasion of Italy's G8 summit that includes tweeting from atop mountains: "@greenpeaceusa: Jess here, tweeting on a netbook, strapped in a harness, hanging on Mt #Rushmore http://bit.ly/n2zi9 #climateaction." Let's hope Jess is a one-handed typer.
  • Follow the action on the Greenpeace live stream.
  • Minor details watch: The White House goes ahead and connects White House Live to its Facebook live chat app that seems to be a feature of every White House event these days.
  • And the latest participants in the White House's Facebook-powered chat series: Secretaries Sebelius and Vilsack on the future of food.
  • A related plea -- Can we finally agree as a nation that those "You are leaving White House Web Servers" are, in 2009, an insult to our collective intelligence and should be done away with? We get it. We click on a link on WhiteHouse.gov, we move about the web, and then it says Facebook right at the top of the screen. No one is confused any more. No one!
  • Vanity Fair covers Politico and what it stands for as a model of modern political journalism.
  • New York City announces that it will award media and tech fellowships to 20 or so "'rising star' media and technology entrepreneurs."
  • Tony La Russa has dropped his Twitter-squatting case. (Note to self: he has something to do with baseball.)
  • And web radio and record labels finally reach a royalty deal that takes into account the unique nature of Internet radio. Translation: Pandora lives.