Below The Beltway

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Maureen Dowd talks to the founders of Twitter:
Alfred Hitchcock would have loved the Twitter headquarters here. Birds gathering everywhere, painted on the wall in flocks, perched on the coffee table, stitched on pillows and framed on the wall with a thought bubble asking employees to please tidy up after themselves.
In a droll nod to shifting [...]

Oprah Winfrey is coming to Twitter:
It is the universal sign of a new idea going mainstream: Oprah Winfrey is bestowing her endorsement on Twitter.
The woman who can single-handedly send a new product or book flying off the shelves has just joined Twitter. She has not yet written a tweet, but more than 30,000 followers have [...]

The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times has filed Chapter 11:
Sun-Times Media, the parent company of The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, said Tuesday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and hired an investment bank to explore possible asset sales.
The company said it would continue to operate its 59 newspapers and various Web sites as [...]

Blogging will be non-existent today.
I already mentioned this in the past, but decided to post it again since there are probably new readers that haven’t seen it.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a Facebook profile so send me a friend request if you’re on there as well. It may take me till the end of [...]

Ever hit that send button before your email was really ready to go ?
Well, Google has a solution for you:
Google Inc.’s Gmail Labs has launched an experimental feature called “Undo Send” that gives users a chance to rewrite their message, correct settings or simply fix typos.
When a Gmail user who enables this feature sends an [...]

It’s been a rough couple of months for the newspapers in Michigan.
Back in December, both of Detroit’s dailies cut back significantly on home delivery, and today we learned that four cities in Michigan will be without a newspaper completely:
Daily newspapers will become a thing of the past for readers in four Michigan markets, with issues being [...]

Very soon, Blockbuster will be offering it’s movies available on demand via TiVo:
With its lingering debt problems resolved for now, Blockbuster is pinning some of its hopes on a digital future.
The struggling video rental chain will announce a partnership with TiVo on Wednesday to deliver Blockbuster’s digital movie library over the Internet directly to the [...]

Maryland Senator Ben Cardin is proposing a bailout for the newspaper industry:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, a Democratic senator on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.
“This may not be the optimal choice for some major [...]