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Michael Wolff

 Your Guide to 
 the Internet's 
 'Next Big Thing' 

Where is technology taking us? There are a few schools of thought

Feb 8, 10 1:10 PM CST
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 Google Runs 1st 
 Super Bowl Ad 

Search giant breaks into big time with romantic spot

Feb 7, 10 11:15 PM CST
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NBC Serves Fried Chicken to Honor Black History Month

A move that doesn't go over well once it hits Twitter

Feb 4, 10 6:12 PM CST
'CEO NO MORE'

 Sun CEO Schwartz Quits 
 —Via Tweeted Haiku 

Chief exec was expected to step down after signals from Oracle CEO

Feb 4, 10 9:30 AM CST

US Soccer
Star's BMW Firebombed
in Scotland

DaMarcus Beasley OK; $80K ride totaled

Feb 3, 10 8:27 PM CST

 Perez Hilton Tops 
 Internet Celebrity List 

Forbes list includes Digg, Twitter, TechCrunch, Mashable founders

Feb 3, 10 12:12 PM CST

 Mexico Mulls 
 Twitter Clampdown 

'Twitteros' avoid drunk-driving checkpoints, feared to aid drug gangs

Feb 3, 10 4:36 AM CST

Fox Reporter Tweets Link
to Call Girl Site

Major Garrett blames bit.ly for inserting site he in no way visited

Jan 28, 10 10:31 AM CST

 Apple Tablet Announcement 
 Could Break Twitter

Some tweets already going out 4 to 5 minutes late

Jan 27, 10 11:21 AM CST
OPINION

 Shut It, Athletes; Just Tweet 

Then Frank Deford won't have to listen to crazy guarantees and apologies

Jan 27, 10 10:48 AM CST

 Twitter May Have Peaked 

User numbers haven't inched upward since July

Jan 27, 10 8:36 AM CST

Space Station Astronaut: 'Hello Twitterverse!'

NASA rigs space station computer to control earth-bound one

Jan 22, 10 2:22 PM CST
OPINION

 Stop Photoshopping  
 Demi Moore  

She looks better in Ashton Kutcher's Twitpic photo than in perfume ad

Jan 22, 10 12:23 PM CST

Reporters Try to Live on Twitter, Facebook Alone

Journalists will hole up in French farmhouse, use only social media

Jan 22, 10 11:10 AM CST

Best Airfare Deals Are Now Tweeted, Emailed

Airlines ramp up discounts in promotional offers 

Jan 21, 10 9:07 AM CST
TWITTER FURY

 Scott Baio 
 Disses 
 First Lady, 
 Gets Death 
 Threats 

Actor gets death threats over Twitter diss

Jan 21, 10 6:09 AM CST

 Valentine Fave Gets 
 Updated Messages 

This year, Sweethearts adds 'text me' and 'tweet me'

Jan 20, 10 8:12 PM CST
208 FOLLOWERS PER MINUTE


 Bill Gates 
 Joins Twitter, 
 Madness 
 Ensues 

Microsoft founder breaks 100K follower mark within 8 hours

Jan 20, 10 7:28 AM CST
embarrassment dept

 Bow Wow's 
 Mom Gets Way 
 Too Twitter Happy 

Rapper threatens to leave, but fans side with Teresa Caldwell

Jan 19, 10 10:39 AM CST
TWITTER 'OOPS'

 NY Times Mocks 
 Cancer-Stricken 
 Michael C. Hall 

'What's with the hat?' wonders uninformed fashion blogger

Jan 19, 10 9:22 AM CST

Twitter Joke Triggers
Terror Bust

Quip lands Brit Tweeter in jail on Terrorism Act

Jan 18, 10 4:40 AM CST
5 REASONS TO GET ON

 Social Media: 
 Sports Fans' 
 Best Friends 

Get real, inside connections with athletes

Jan 17, 10 3:03 PM CST

Free Haiti Flights Turn Out
To Be Twitter Hoax

Tweeters also spread rumor of free UPS shipping

Jan 14, 10 2:10 PM CST
TWITTER RAMPAGES

 Courtney Love: 
 I'll Sue for Custody 

Singer lashes out on Twitter, admits missing Frances Bean Cobain

Jan 14, 10 8:40 AM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

It’s the Sex, Stupid   

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Feb 9, 10 | 7:46 AM BY Michael Wolff

Stories about the sex lives of politicians are just about the hottest copy in the business. So hot, that the hottest story at the New York Times is the rumor of a story about the sex life of David Paterson, New York’s governor. We are all waiting for the great bombshell. Although it may be that we don’t even need an actual story, that having had so many stories about politicians' sex lives, we can all fill in the blanks. There are already reports... More »

For Me, Palin Scores

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Feb 8, 10 | 7:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Andrew Sullivan , the journalist and blogger, who flirted for many years with conservatism and the Republican party, has become the... More »

Politics Has Lost Its Power. That’s Why There’s Gridlock

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Feb 5, 10 | 8:39 AM BY Michael Wolff

Everybody’s beating their breasts about Washington gridlock. Let’s defend gridlock for a moment. The opposite of gridlock... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad as Hell

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Feb 4, 10 | 8:07 AM BY Michael Wolff

Rupert is off the reservation again. This is always a possibility when News Corp.’s quarterly earnings reports are issued and... More »

Sarah Palin, Inc. Has a Problem

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Feb 3, 10 | 8:00 AM BY Michael Wolff

Before this gets out of hand, I want to try to save the word “retarded,” which seems robust and meaningful and evocative... More »

Obama’s Deficit Faux-Hawk

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Feb 2, 10 | 12:14 PM BY Kevin Spak

During his State of the Union address, Barack Obama promised to freeze government spending , not this year, but soon, and not on defense,... More »

Jenny Sanford, Andrew Young, Gayle Haggard Tell Everything You Always Want to Know About Sex—Other People's

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Feb 2, 10 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

Maybe the problem is not so much with sex but with books. The great thing (I mean the really great thing) about books (good books... More »

James O’Keefe: What Did Glenn Beck Know, and When Did He Know It?

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Feb 1, 10 | 8:12 AM BY Michael Wolff

I can offer some reasonable speculation about where this O’Keefe business is going. There are the perpetrators, the four... More »

JD Salinger, and His Way, Are Dead

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Jan 29, 10 | 7:02 AM BY Michael Wolff

A number of months ago, when he roused himself to file yet another law suit against another writer who came too close to him, I wrote... More »

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