“It sounded like a Vegas slot machine. My computer was just going ding ding ding.”
Veronica McGregor, a former NASA correspondent for CNN, on the number of ‘followers’ of her tweets. McGregor micro-blogged on Twitter on behalf of $420 million Phoenix Mars Lander, and had nearly 10,000 followers as the Lander touched down on Mars.
“I have had enough of political correctness.”
Richard Barnbrook, of the British National party, on a blog in the Telegraph, blaming immigrants and the Labour Party.
“I’m viewing FriendFeed as a “best of” collection of my friends’ online content.”
Bryan Person, on the ‘social aggregator’ FriendFeed that pulls in feeds from blogs, Flickr, delicious, and Google.
“It’s absolutely true that the Web site and the newspaper are not synchronized. I say that’s a good thing.”
Jonathan Landman, Deputy Managing Editor or New York Times, responsible for the paper’s digital journalism talking of the difference between a great web experience and a great newspaper experience.
“The individual, the company, the nation that is best at avoiding distractions in the future will have an enormous advantage in the competitive marketplace.”
MIke Elgan, on “Is there a cure for the distraction virus” about how these internet-based ‘agents of distraction’ (Facebook, YouTube, Slashdot, Drudge etc) are causing huge productivity losses and what it means.
“Now inside a web page, you’ll be able to fly through San Francisco or see a 3D model of a cabin with exactly the view out the window of the mountains.”
Google’s Paul Rademacher on its 3D visualization capability of Google Earth.
“When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you…”
Sharon Stone, whose controversial comments at the Cannes Film Festival about China’s earthquake, became her own bad karma.
“He’s gone; the policy—strategic non-communication—may still be in place.”
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