Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But there’s no reason to let this stuff go to waste: I can still share it with you, for your amusement, and start the new week with a clean slate.
Herewith this week’s leftover links, in no particular order:
If you Want to Keep your [Twitter] Followers, Don’t Repeat Yourself
‘Who Designed Your Monkey Mask?” Academy Awards Prepare for a Banksy Oscar Win
@FakeAPStylebook Duo Take Aim at Content Farms
At Media Companies, a Nation of Serfs
Sam Worthington Surprised By Titans Sequel
Why Are American Cable Viewers Deprived of Al-Jazeera (But Pay for Fox News?)
Why the Oscars Aren’t Dead Yet
5 Types of Tweets that will get you Retweeted
Billy Ray Cyrus Wishes Hannah Montana Had Never Happened
Anderson Cooper Interrogates A Disgraced Nir Rosen Over Lara Logan Twitter ‘Jokes’
Apologies From Dubai. Nir Rosen: ‘I Feel Like Shrinking Now’
How 480 characters unraveled my career [by Nir Rosen]
CBS complicit in news coverup [of assault of Lara Logan]
America’s Book Banners Are Back in Force
New film about her life holds no magic for Potter author Rowling
Anna Nicole Smith`s estate considering legal action over new opera
The most borrowed library books of 2010 [in the U.K.]
Can Google predict who will win Best Picture at The Oscars?
The Oscars: Fresh story ideas a tough sell in Hollywood
Why Apple Won’t Kill Print and Google Won’t Kill Apple
‘Firefly’ returning to cable; Fillion says he’d play Mal again — EXCLUSIVE
Hailee Steinfeld Sweepstakes Begin: Actress to Star in ‘Forgotten’