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Last night, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington revealed that he had received hundreds of documents about Twitter sent by someone who had hacked into the company’s system. Arrington said he planned to post some documents related to Twitter’s business. This set off a firestorm of debate about the ethics. With Arrington posting a follow up to his original post here.

I was truly amazed at the overwhelmingly negative feedback from the TechCrunch community about his decision. You can see the harshness continue on Twitter here.

I posted my own thoughts in the comment section, which I’m re-posting here: Read the rest of this entry »

In addition to blogging and writing articles for the newspaper, I’m Twittering intermittently from E3 this week.. You can follow my tweets <a href=”http://twitter.com/troywolv”>here</a>. Or you can come back to this post and follow the feed below:

Facebook officially has rolled out its redesigned look, which makes the news feed look a heck of a lot more like Twitter.

The initial conversation (at least on Twitter) is decidedly negative.

Follow the griping here.

Here’s an interesting piece from the Los Angeles Times on how the unemployed are plugging into Twitter to find jobs:

Stelzner has shot out hundreds of tweets from people volunteering their resume-proofing skills, passing along job notices or looking to become full-blown job angels - raising a wing for gig-seekers in need.

Pink Slip 2.0, the Merc’s ongoing chronicle following three recently laid-off folks in Silicon Valley while creating an online community revolving around their stories, can now be followed on Twitter, the micro-blogging site and San Francisco-based new media darling. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m still digesting a lot of the sessions at last week’s Web 2.0 Summit. If you weren’t there, I highly recommend checking out some of the sessions which are archived here either for streaming for to download to your iPod.

The panel I was most eager to hear going in was “The Media Business: New Approaches.” The panel was moderated by Ken Auletta of the New Yorker and included Evan Williams of Twitter and Joel Hyatt of Current TV.

The panel didn’t disappoint. I’ve embedded the full video above. But let me highlight a few of the important points that struck me during the session. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night, I got a momentary thrill when I received an e-mail from Twitter saying I was now being followed by TheRealAlGore. Really? Neat.

I had met the real Al Gore just a couple weeks ago at an event hosted by Twitter and Current TV, which the real Al Gore co-founded. I asked him if he was using Twitter. He said no, but that he planned to get on board the next day.

So, I asked around Twitter to see if anyone knew whether @TheRealAlGore was The Real Al Gore? Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, the Sunlight Foundation won a nifty victory when the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to update its rules to allow members to use Twitter. You can get the full background from this blog post by the Sunlight folks. The House joins the U.S. Senate in letting its members use the microblogging service without heavy handed restrictions.

To celebrate, this week Sunlight released a new widget that allows you to track Congressional tweets: Read the rest of this entry »

Now that John McCain is back on board for the debate tonight, it’s time to start making plans for watching. Some folks may gather with friends for debate parties, which is great.

But if you’re looking for alternative ways to gather with folks virtually, consider watching the debates at Current TV, either on your cable system or online here.

Current TV has teamed up with Twitter to create a stream of tweets that will appear on the screen throughout the debate. If you’re familiar with Twitter, all you need to do is include the #current hash tag in your tweet to get it into the Current TV stream.

During the conventions, I had Twitter running on my laptop and really enjoyed the interactivity and running commentary throughout the evening keynotes. Since real interactive TV appears to be years away, I found this to be a great substitute. So I’ll be watching tonight and posting my thoughts on Twitter. If you want me to see your tweets, also include @sjcobrien in your tweets.