Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

I don't have dating tips.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives - was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.