MEDIABLITZ

The world is abuzz with Twitter. Ashton Kutcher, who writes a many a mean tweet, was on TMZ because he tweeted about his neighbors' construction crew annoying him and his wife, Demi Moore,  around the Super Bowl. Then celebrities started going on talk shows and hosts started asking them if they tweeted. News people also seem to love it and often there are tweets saying I'm at the president's news conference or sitting at the anchor's desk. It's a service where anyone can join and post anything they like as long as it's less than 140 characters. It's kind of like a giant IM where you can choose to read (follow) whomever's tweets you want to follow.  So you're reading IM's from hundreds of people sharing random insights from the universe and hundreds more are reading yours. I've been tweeting for two years. Someone I knew had a "badge"-- a little square with someone's latest tweet on their blog. With a note asking for ...

WowOWow A rather unfortunate name, long, and confusing, for example what comes first the ‘W’ or the “O’. It’s targeted to women over 40 although the founders are quite a bit older. Five high-powered media women each contributed $200,000 to the site: • Lesley Stahl: (67) She’s been on 60 minutes for 19 years. • Peggy Noonan: (58) Political conservative, WSJ columnist. • Liz Smith: (85) Gossip columnist, let go from New York Post very recently. • Joni Evans: (??) Former book publisher / agent. • Mary Wells Lawrence: (80) Retired Advertising Executive It reminds me of the Huffington Post but only an all woman perspective. It has features on the economy, politics, entertainment. On the day I visited the three headlining stories were 1) Liz Smith, 2) An interview with Phyllis Schlafly (84 year old quintessential anti-feminist), and 3) A review of a book on finding love over 60. It’s comment heavy and serves an under served prosperous demographic. In this age of longer liv...