New Media All A Twitter Over Palin's Resignation

Stunned by rumors of Alaska governor Sarah Palin's resignation, many of us turned to cable TV for confirmation. And that's where we found ourselves mired in the quicksand of old media, slowly sinking into oblivion where the outlines of our outdated dinosaur thinking will be preserved for future media archaeologists to excavate, analyze, and ultimately dismiss as archaic.

All that's just a high-falutin' way of saying that if you used a clicker instead of a Twitterfeed to keep you up to date, you proved how old-school and out of touch you were. (I raise my hand. Guilty as charged.)

While CNN, Fox, MSNBC and the major TV networks frantically scrambled to fill in the blanks on a big story that was all headline and no details -- turning to ho-hum talking head who were more 'available' than 'expert' (i.e. they hadn't left town for the holiday weekend)-- the real media excitement was on Twitter.

If you didn't catch those tweets the first time around, Glynnis MacNicol at Mediaite has them logged for all posterity. You know what's the coolest thing about her post? She links to all the Twitter IDs of the media cognoscenti so you, like me, can follow them from this point on, ensuring that you'll never be out of the loop again.

Thanks to digital media guru Kathy E. Gill at WiredPen.com for the above and for bringing us all into the 21st century.

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