The New Agenda tweets the Inauguration
January 19, 2009
by The New Agenda
19 January 2009
22 Comments
We’re on Twitter!
The New Agenda will tweet the Inauguration tomorrow, providing commentary and data on the proceedings from a bold feminist perspective. Follow us at newagendapress on twitter.com. If you don’t have a Twitter account yet it’s easy to set one up: just go to twitter.com. You can follow us on your computer or from your phone.
We’re integrating Twitter with our blog, too, so from now on blog posts will automatically be tweeted — and tweets will automatically show up here on the blog sidebar. (At least that’s how it’s supposed to work…)
Sorry to be so older generation, but what the hell is tweeting and what does it mean for posts here to show up on twitter, etc? Are the same privacy rules observed, etc? I may not want to post in one place and have my post show up somewhere else that I don’t know about nor might now want to access via setting up an acct, etc. Help!
It means that posts published here will also be published on Twitter, just like they’re published on Facebook.
You don’t write posts here, you just comment.
This is EXCELLENT. Because I have no clue, and I have to get some. By about next Thursday. Or lose my job.
I got blogs, after awhile, I got commenting, I even went to Facebook, got that, now listen to podcasts, much tearing of hair over Twitter. Bring it sisters. I’m an empty vessel.
Sure Vi gets it. Secret Service Operatives have to understand those things. As you know, the websites a front. Shhh.
Huddle over here with me Anna.
Did this sound ominous to you too Anna?
“You don’t write posts here, you just comment.”
Sheesh. Now her covers broken it’s orders, terseness, no more Ms. furry alpaca.
The twitter is certainly another clever way for Violet to hide funds. Surely Naomi will find these too.
I continue to get email from Scairfe:
You are a proud Winner of £750,000.00
Contact Mr Phillip Thubman with
Your Age,Address,Occupation,Sex and Country
at: Phillipthubman.desk1@live.com
Sis, Twitter is just exactly like all those other social media, only shorter. It’s quickie social media.
I got a Twitter account but can’t figure out how to use it. How will I find New Agenda Press?
That’s it Loralee. You get these things, they fill up your hard drive, slow down your browser, have to be scoped by your virus protector, and what do they do for you? Can we just read? Enough is enough. Really.
Loralee, even if you’re having trouble with your Twitter account, you can always just check our page for updates by following the link in the post: http://twitter.com/newagendapress
If you are logged into your Twitter account, when you go to our page you will have the option to “follow” us. And if you do that, then our tweets will be delivered to you.
The great thing about Twitter is that you can get tweets on your cell phone while you’re out doing stuff.
Or is that the horrible thing about Twitter? I guess it depends on your perspective.
Ha.
Really — it’s an easy way for people to stay abreast of what’s going on on the website. It’s an optional and somewhat redundant service provided for convenience, only — for those who REALLY appreciate brevity.
Views On Rick Warren At Inauguration:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113.....rayer.aspx
Sis – Glad I’m not alone in my technologically backward life.
Violet – Thanks for the explanation. If i understand you correctly, it’s articles/posts that will show up over at Twitter (whatever that is!) and not comments. Or should I say, “just comments.” Geez, since your cover’s been blown you’ve become a bit curt. It figures!
Oh Sheryl, I don’t even have an answering machine on my basic land line. Not that I’m a luddite, just that I prefer e-mail, which I can answer or not, spam or not, and have a written record of what and who and when that can be accessed anywhere without taking my private conversations public. I hate having to listen to other people’s conversations while I’m grocery shopping or in a waiting room, or on public transit. I think it’s rude of people to do that to me, and I refuse to block out life by wearing earbuds–which I also don’t have. Heh.).
Sis, I think we may have a lot in common.
And — what the heck! It’s over already? I thought it was all happening this evening.
Well, Ah Decleah. I’m now brought into coolness with the twittering. I luv it that the N.A. is doing Facebook, Twitter, great bloggers.
I see. Twitter is perfect for ‘eye-witness’ commentary. Thanks. I read the captions and that’s all I’m going to read on this. I am admonished elsewhere, to “give the man a chance!”
This seems pretty impressive. Let’s encourage him to do this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/women/
I heard variations of “give the man a chance” from both my mom and my boyfriend this morning. And they get where I’m coming from. I think people just really want to have hope. I get that. I do, too.
Thanks so much for setting up the twitter feed from the inauguration today. Our New Agenda Ohio luncheon really enjoyed getting your bold feminist posts in real time. It was a terrific addition to our get together!!!! We started out venting, ate lots of good food, went through some bottles of wine, and left feeling very hopeful about our The New Agenda future. Thanks so much twitterers!!!!
Sheryl at 5:18; I am glad you, you mom and BF were able to give BO a chance. I see things differently. It seems to me he was given a million chances – a free pass – during the election and during his whole career. I.E. – He said during the campaign that he wanted to create a million jobs – then he said two, then three and now 4.1 million. No-one asks where these numbers come from . It is like he has monopoly money. He is never challenged or asked for explanations. He just “is.”
When Hillary Clinton was introduced in the procession and the crowd was cheering for her I was so touched. Here is a woman who did everything right, who served her time in several roles and was just dissed as a castrator, “old” and so on.
On the Today show, Meredith Vierra asked author Gwen Ifill about her book on the coming generation of younger people of color in politics. “Why no women” said Vierra. Oh, said the childless Ifill, women have different life patterns and they raise their families. She cited Pelosi and HRC as examples. But in the next breath she mentioned generational change, and younger voices.
When are women supposed to have their kids – in high school? Having kids in late 20 to early 40s – raising them and THEN we get to run. Only to be hinted at that we are too old???
I am discouraged. I do not share your hope. I have heard too much about the ’struggles’ of a prep-school educated, Ivy League man and nothing all day about women. Zip.
Also tired of cheering reporters who are supposed to be onjective while at work.
I feel sad…..
Florida Lady,
I feel sad too. I wanted to feel happy today and at times was able to suspend disbelief for a few moments, but then heard comments about so and so’s fashion choices, and how it takes a confident woman to say she’s going to be “mother in chief”. Some guy on Abc started talking about the suffragets’ protest at Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration but got cut off before I could figure out where he was going with it b/c they had to cut away for local programming.
Cokie Roberts talked about religion in government, and the panelists gathered wondered how much religion will be part of Obama’s government.. As part of that discussion Cokie said that Sarah Palin said, “There’s a reason our founding fathers put “one nation under god” in the pledge of alliegence”, and Cokie continues, “but of course they didn’t, that was added in 1950″ etc. and all the reporters chuckled at that.
Couldn’t she just talk about this without taking yet another dig at Sarah?
Anyway, it’s great that Bush is out, but I just feel like I’m back in the same world where men rule and nothing changes for women.
“mother in chief” Yes, suddenly, the progressive left is defending motherhood. Well not suddenly I note on some other websites it’s also if you’re a “yummy mommy”. If you’re a mommy leaking from every oriface, or one who doesn’t feel like acting like a bimbot, you’re out. Stay tuned for more 180s from some so-called feminist website posters, as they allow their racism to direct their ‘feminism’. Because you know, when you annoint anyone of race with good, and honour, without evidence, doing so only because they are of colour, that’s racism. We used to call it ‘reverse’ racism.
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