Most politicians choose a boring professional headshot for social media accounts. Bucking the trend, Minnesota’s Secretary of State Mark Ritchie went with a photo that really encapsulates a spirit of Minnesota outdoorsedness — with, perhaps, a subtle implication that he is steering us in the right direction?
Have you been following the contretemps involving Chick-fil-A and same-sex marriage? It’s one of those sagas that tickles a newsie’s reportorial fancy, containing more improbable twists than anything one might make up were one in the business of writing, say, sitcoms or old-fashioned farces.
It’s also a cautionary tale for businesses that dabble both in politics and social media, but let’s dispense with the stranger-than-fiction first. Read more…
While the future of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal — often emotional — expression may give you pause.
On the death of Amy Winehouse
The big news in the arts this weekend was the death of soul/jazz singer Amy Winehouse.
It happened about the same time as the horrific attacks in Oslo, and some on social media seemed to think there was a competition between the two events, as though every tweet about Winehouse was wasted and could better have been spent tweeting about Oslo. As though heartbreak is a limited resource, as though if we’re spending it on a dead pop star we have less to spend on the Norwegian dead.
