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Twitter Lists: Doug Midkiff

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Clark Bosslet

Our second twitter list comes from blogger and famed Excel guru Doug Midkiff. While I’ve been a Bill Simmons fan for years, the other three twitter accounts on this list are new to me.

is the author of Dinosaur Comics and also brings the funny on his own personal twitter account. Comic humor transfers over pretty well to twitter humor.

,  aka , is the widely popular ESPN columnist who recently formed his own website called Grantland.com. You can (almost) always count on Bill to be tweeting some interesting/funny things during big sporting events.

Editor’s heavy-handedness:

Because I’m a sucker for nice, round numbers like 5, I’ll go ahead and add the aforementioned Grantland.com. The site has a twitter feed that pushes out links to any and all Grandland stories, podcasts, and soup related content.

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aka , is an urban planner/designer who works in Dallas. He tweets quite regularly about urban form and design in Dallas, but also across the US. He often passes along interesting links, as well.

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On Twitter

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Clark Bosslet

Twitter is arguably now the dominant information sharing platform, which is to say that for many of us, it is “the news.”

I can’t remember the last time I didn’t find out about a major current event via Twitter. The first time I noticed it was during the horrific January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Instead of clicking refresh on CNN or NYTimes or the Drudge Report, I just sat all afternoon watching my Twitter feed. The same went for the death of Osama Bin Laden, and now the closest I seem to get to traditional “news” is the Daily Show.

Joe Paterno’s Twitter death, falsely reported the day before his actual death and then retweeted ad infinitum, shows the potentially spurious danger of this information sharing platform. Twitter has been praised as the most salient weapon in the democratization of information sharing, but as with all other user-based content, it is both produced and disseminated in large part by amateurs who have no real accountability to the subjects on which they report.

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