• Number of tweets wishing Ricky Gervais was hosting (in my stream 2 hours into the show): 100+ #
• retweeting EVERYONE: "Oprah? Where's Uma?" or "YOU get an Oscar! EVERYBODY gets an Oscar!" #
• I LOLed at @ApocalypseHow "The Hollywood sign is SO getting Banksied tonight" #
• A late acknowledgement to the tweeters who almost simultaneously declared Randy Newman looked like Ben Stein and Barney Frank #
• All of Hollywood is now disappointed Billy Crystal isn't hosting the rest of the show… #
• Minutes later, all of Hollywood is disappointed Bob Hope isn't hosting the rest of the show… #
• 12 minutes to flood of "If this doesn't end soon I'm cutting off MY arm" tweets #
• Retweeting @KeithOlbermann tweeting link to USA Today writing http://usat.ly/fomqW7 about us tweeting about #Oscars #TurtlesAllTheWayDown #
• And 150 tweets of "Randy Newman wins for the same song for the 5th time". Is Bruce Vilanch giving his reject jokes to EVERY Twitterer? #
• Celine Dion was chosen to sing during the "In Memoriam" montage by vote of those APPEARING in the "In Memorium" montage #
• yes, @pattonoswalt , #Oscars #deathmontage should've ended on Kevin McCarthy yelling, "YOU'RE NEXT!" #
• and @rosscott points out that Randy Newman wrote songs for 3 Dog Night. Everyone always laughs when he mentions "Mama Told Me Not To Come." #
• good advice from @lartist "If they really want to get people to watch the #Oscars they should run the Superbowl commercials during 'em." #
• declares @BadAstronomer "Twitter has dangerously depleted our national reserve of snark." What will we do for the Emmys?!? #
• Think About It from @gjcharlet : "20 years ago, the #Oscars showed that AIDS was the greatest tragedy we faced. This year? Stuttering. " #
• BREAKING POST-OSCAR NEWS: Pre-production beginning on sequel to "The King's Speech", "Prince William Mumbles I Do"… #

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• MEME THIS: "Don’t be a “Tiger Mom” be a Tigger Mom!" http://kitchenpantryscientist.com/?p=1731 #
• Something wrong with the Presidents Day Random President Selection Device. I got George Clinton. #
• Business models: "If you're not the customer paying for it, you're the product". With Cable TV and Newspapers/Magazines you get to be BOTH! #
• There's a bill in Congress to change President's Day to CEO's Day. #
• @extralife 2009's Star Trek was just following the rules of Office space: minimum 37 pieces of flare… #
• @jay_beans They’re calling them "Feminazi" because treating women equally with men will cause the extermination of the "male race", duh. #
• @pzmyers @Qu3eNG @GodsDontExist @PZMyers And don't forget God Still Loves You when His natural disasters kill you! #
• @KeithOlbermann Please don't call the Insurance Industry/Pharma/Medical Corporations "Health Care". It's NOT what they do. #
• Why good teachers are disrespected: they teach kids to Question Authority while Parents/Churches/Employers order them not to. #
• CLASSIC TWITTER MEMORY via @TonyHanadarko http://twitter.com/#!/senjohnmccain/status/3331878099 #
• @mollydotcom When you keep a laptop by your bed, awake/aware/mentallyfunctional are no longer synonyms with "up"… #
• If @govwalker claims protesters are out-of-state agitators, then 90% of his supporters on the scene MUST be. That's what people like him do. #
• @LilPecan whether referring to the fast-foodery or the smoked chili it's named after, spelling it Chipolte instead of Chipotle is SO gringo #
• @KeithOlbermann Looking forward to your next Special Comment about "falafel – worse than crack?" #
• @ivey Hacker News vs. MetaFilter obviously proves that "scaling up" means "dumbing down"… #
• You can now do American Idol voting on Facebook? Well, that should ensure that Bristol Palin makes the Final Four on that too… #
• truth from @SteveHuff : "Pop divas: if you cover "Eleanor Rigby," Paul McCartney has a legal right to put your face in a jar by the door. " #
• @headgeek666 I knew Jeff Goldblum had a bright future when he survived Stephen Cannell's "Tenspeed and Brownshoe"… #
• Well, @livingpixel the Bossman of Libya is a man of many spellings. I've seen autocorrect explode when confronted with his name. #
• Inception/The Sting comparisons? @paulfeig I just don't see DiCaprio and Gordon-Levitt doing Butch & Sundance, sorry. #
• via @steverubel "65 Percent of Journalists Use Social Media to Get Story Ideas http://bit.ly/eGZdFs " and 65% of those come from spammers. #
• via @mental_floss via @Wired "Columbia University study: 83% of NY prostitutes have a Facebook page." MUCH better than Craigslist, sure! #
• @JamesUrbaniak You're obviously mistaking “Two and a Half Men” for "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place", in which ironically, Jon Cryer played the Pizza Place #
• The Harvard Business Review endorses Serendipity. The economy is now officially totally screwed. http://s.hbr.org/eAK5eE #
• Definition of the Day via @alisonhallett "Publicists: Messengers It's OK To Shoot." (reworded for extra LOL value) #
• When I Start Wondering Whether I REALLY Should Be Following Somebody, Example #43 They are live-tweeting TMZ. #
• @ChrisEliopoulos I am not a full Spartacus… just a Partacus. #
• @taraplatt No, what L.A. is doing is not "Drive Angry", it's "Drive Dopey". SoCalifornians' IQ wash away with water. #
• There is Self-Promotion, Attention Whoring, Performance Art, Exposing the Flaws in a System and Drunken Silliness @ChrisPirillo does it all #
• @jephjacques Bumper Stickers: one of the few media whose character limit is less than Twitter. (XLNT messages BTW) #

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Jay Rosen, who I generally respect for his smart stands on important issues, hath tweeteth:

I wish not to alarm or depress you but a noble battle over usage has been lost. The vernacular has spoken. “Blog” has come to mean “post.”

But this time, I feel this is neither an important issue nor a smart stand. I have ben Blogging, on-and-off, since the days it was called Weblogging, and using the word Blog as a verb meaning “to put something into a blog” was always the right way to say it. But as a noun for that something you put into a blog? Horrendous.

YO DUDE I SAW YOU HAD A BLOG SO I PUT A BLOG IN YOUR BLOG…

The problem is that there has never been a generally accepted term to use. Rosen’s preferred “Post” I never warmed to; it seemed ambiguous and rather old-fashioned, especially to the English English language speakers: “a post? couldn’t you find a faster way to put something in your blog than have the postman deliver it?” True, not as horrendous as the noun-form Blog, but not good enough. At MetaFilter, I was more comfortable with the acronym FPP (for Front Page Post) but the man who created that preeminent Community Blog didn’t, and his opposition made sense. What do you call “Posts” to other “pages” of the site: AP for AskPost? MP for MusicPost? TP for TalkPost? Okay, that’s a non-starter.

Other options frequently used still have connotations that are generally “un-bloggy”. “Item” suggests something short and headline-y, even gossipy, and the short stuff has its own word now, “Tweet”. “Article” and “Piece” sound like something only Professional Writers should be allowed to do.

Which is why I am suggesting using the term “Blogging”, as in “Wil Wheaton’s latest blogging…” “In a blogging at The New York Times…” “This is his/her best blogging in months…”

Not perfect, but just knock the “ging” off the end and see how bad it can be… and how bad it IS, being used now.

Like all of my previous sensible suggestions to the Internet, I expect this one to be generally ignored.

• from @petersagal the most obvious #TVShowsImproved "One and a Half Men" #
• Jersey Pauly Shore #TVShowsImproved #sadlyso #
• $#+! My Dad $#+!s #TVShowsImproved #
• Friday Knight Rider Lights #TVShowsImproved #kindamashuppy #
• #TVShowsImproved from @paulandstorm [P] "House & Wooster" WAITAMINUTE, wouldn't that be Hugh Laurie in both parts? It would? Cool. #
• Detective Conan O'Brien the Barbarian #TVShowsImproved #somethingforeverybody #
• oh, what the heck… "Doctor Who House" #TVShowsImproved #
• The Not Tonight I Have a Headache Show #TVShowsImproved #
• I officially concede #TVShowsImproved to @joshacagan after "Supermarket Sweep The Leg, Johnny" #
• (well, maybe a couple more) America's Next Top Martyr #TVShowsImproved #
• WWE Friday Night Shackup!!! #TVShowsImproved #
• has anybody done "Two and a Half Mad Men" yet? #TVShowsImproved #
• "CSI: NCIS" #TVShowsImproved #butnotmuch #
• Top LikeTheOneInInception Chef #TVShowsImproved #

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• "Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of an AMC Gremlin?" #1stDraftBackToTheFuture #
• "When this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour… I'm gonna shit myself." #1stDraftBackToTheFuture #
• "But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a 7.2 earthquake!" #1stDraftBackToTheFuture #
• "Well, that is your name, isn't it? Fruit of the Loom? It's written all over your underwear." #1stDraftBackToTheFuture #

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