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The Ashtonization of Twitter (March 2009)

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 ...

Two New Producers, Lots of New Projects

By EDWARD WYATT Published: April 23, 2007 LOS ANGELES, April 22 — Ashton Kutcher is no Merv Griffin, not yet at least. “I don’t have a hotel,” Mr. Kutcher said last week, referring to the Beverly Hilton, which Mr. Griffin, the former talk-show host and game-show producer, once owned — not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars in other assets. ED: (My Review, NYT article continues below...) -----> D for dumb and disappointment. Too many stunts, not enough depth so the reactions didn't measure up and the crashers went way over the top. A long lost friend of the groom causes the groom to get arrested for smoking a Cuban cigar. Both the friend and the cop were actors aka "crashers" and the groom knew he was being crashed so this long stunt was basically just for the benefit of the best man who said nothing and was trying to get the long lost friend crasher to shut up. At first the cop was put off by the crasher's attitude but when the friend traded places wi...