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		<title>Maureen Dowd, Twitter and the telephone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people will never get Twitter. They&#8217;ll never get past the 140-character limit. They&#8217;ll always think it&#8217;s just people writing about what they had for breakfast. (Frankly, I think people should stop watching Twitter in Plain English. It&#8217;s not relevant anymore.)
Some people will never use Twitter. And that&#8217;s OK. 
One of those people in Maureen [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some people will never get Twitter. They&#8217;ll never get past the 140-character limit. They&#8217;ll always think it&#8217;s just people writing about what they had for breakfast. (Frankly, I think people should stop watching <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/757146">Twitter in Plain English</a>. It&#8217;s not relevant anymore.)</p>
<p>Some people will never use Twitter. And that&#8217;s OK. </p>
<p>One of those people in Maureen Dowd. She flew San Francisco and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/opinion/22dowd.html?_r=2&#038;ref=opinion">interviewed the creators of Twitter</a>, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, and used that opportunity to mock them to their faces. And not in a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek, Stephen-Colbert sort of way. She hates Twitter and she let them know it. </p>
<p>Sample question: &#8220;Was there anything in your childhood that led you to want to destroy civilization as we know it?&#8221;</p>
<p>Fortunately, bloggers are a clever bunch, and <a href="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/04/ms-dowd-interviews-the-inventor-of-the-telephone.html">this parody Dowd interview with the inventors of the telephone</a> dovetails nicely with my recent interest in Bell&#8217;s life. </p>
<p>Sample parody question: &#8220;Was there anything in your childhood that turned you into a loathsome scourge to humanity?&#8221;</p>
<p>Bell responds, deadpan, &#8220;You mean my mother&#8217;s deafness, which made me dedicate my life to helping people communicate?&#8221;</p>
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