listening to NPR and 101.1 (Boortz, mostly) - i've caught up on the hot topics and buzzwords of the news media. i don't have cable or even decent reception at home to be able to watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, or the local news, so the talk radio stuff suffices. i can't imagine how sick i'd be of some of these topics if i ALSO had the TV news stations telling me what to think...
pirates
the torture memos
Miss California's answer...
Twitter
the only one i really care to think about is the twitter-related buzz.
at The Rabbit Room, they've been talking about it... Oprah recently had an episode, Colbert had the founder of twitter on the Report, Larry King had the users racing to 1mil on his show... it's getting its 15minutes of too-much-fame.
i was anti-twitter since its inception, because it seemed like a facebook-status-clone to me, and that's overkill. i was just getting used to the evolution of AIM away messages --> facebook status. NOW, i have to re-adjust to facebook status -->twitter feed. the reason i started tweeting was because i was seeking some information about a web-business, and when i couldn't find it on their site i tried to check their tweets, but i had to log in to do this... and thus i was hooked.
there's something fascinating to me about the blurring of lines between online communities and physical communities, and that blurred place is where i'm headed. i'm not content to just have lots of facebook friends or 'followers,' i want to have real conversations with these persons as well - i want to break bread with them, and if it only happens once and we then communicate only via twitter direct messages for a few months, i'm ok with that.
as long as there is the mix happening... don't let me just engage on twitter and facebook if we live in the same community, or are worshipping together, or both love Whedondom.
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