How We Got Into This Mess.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

(via Philthy Blog) So much of the disagreement over the economic stimulus package relies on misinformation. Here's a brief and really engaging synopsis of how the world economy was flushed down the drain. May it provide clarity for a solution.

Who's Tweeting?

I'm going to try to keep you all updated on who I'm following on Twitter from time to time. Celebrities, prolific tweeters, downright interesting folk.

New finds this week:

Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) - Actually tweets a lot about important social issues when he's not, you know, bragging about being married to Demi Moore.

Demi Moore (mrskutcher) - Like her husband, tweets about social action and is really really into her dogs.



Kim Fassler (kimfassler) - A blogger for The Honolulu Advertiser, she provides some great insight from a twenty-something-from-Hawaii-living-away-from-home perspective

Rainn Wilson (rainnwilson) - As an Office fan, how could I not? But seriously, Rainn offers some great commentary on family life and being a Baha'i.


David Gregory (davidgregory) - As the host of Meet the Press, you might expect Mr. Gregory to have some intern do his tweeting (here's looking at you Anderson Cooper). But this guy actually tweets. From the White House to Whitehall. Good stuff.

Any more suggestions? Pass them along!

Twitter on Nightline

I've been on Twitter since last summer when some of my coworkers at BroadSpire mentioned that they'd been doing it from their iPhones. Being abroad for a bit, I had neglected to update my account, and having my texting capabilities limited didn't help either. (I'm oh so sorry.)

Since starting my work at takepart.com, I have been on twitter quite a lot and have become slightly obsessed. I've even attempted to start the twitter-fever with my colleagues at KSPC. We run a social-political talk radio program that I think is very relevant to the twitter world, so why not try to amass a following and get feedback along the way. When pitching the idea to my fellow staff members who didn't understand the twitter phenomenon, I was met with some perplexed looks. And my attempts to explain exactly what twitter is were feeble at best.

In the clip above (found via twitter, of course), it seems that even its founders struggle with that problem...