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annekejong

  1. Q: what do you call a salesperson who cares about profits? A: a CEO (via Andy Rachleff at @StanfordBiz)
  2. OH: I hope some day I'll have to tell my kid: "I know it sounds crazy, but when I was your age, gay people weren't allowed to get married."
  3. "the bible says adam and eve, not adam and mary j. blige." @iamwandasykes does stand up on coming out. via @upworthy bre.ad/14a5bj
  4. hey @rachelsklar, i think you'd also be stoked about @roominatetoy's doll house for future engineers: kck.st/JinxGq #changetheratio
  5. solar eclipse shadows instagr.am/p/K3tl8UuXsH/
  6. want to watch the solar eclipse from the bay area? starts: 5:15pm, peaks: 6:32pm, ends: 7:39pm, 90% of the sun covered bre.ad/1rjat2
  7. Hey @kn0thing and @KatManalac, I think you guys would dig this @Kickstarter project from @RoominateToy: kck.st/JinxGq #girlsintech
  8. I just funded the fully-wired doll house from @RoominateToy because I believe in teaching girls about engineering: kck.st/JinxGq
  9. @barronlee @TechCrunch amazing! i love it.
  10. @LindRuss stupendous list!
  11. "the phony tone of traditional 'journalist speak' is overly objective and no longer fits with our culture." -susan mernit #hashtagged
  12. reminder for journalists: "for every story you write, there will be hundreds of people who know more about it than you." @tacyw #hashtagged
  13. "my job at @NPR is basically guinea-pig-in-residence." @acarvin on his role in digital journalism innovation #hashtagged
  14. "hyperlocal and niche players are replacing traditional 'experts' as sources of information." -susan mernit #hashtagged
  15. old school crowdsourcing: publick occurrences, america's first newspaper, had a blank page for citizens' own notes. via @acarvin #hashtagged
  16. "all media is social media. the only media that isn't social is media no one consumes." -@tacyw at @stanford #hashtagged
  17. Looking forward to today's McClatchy Symposium at @Stanford -- #Hashtagged: How Social Media are Revolutionizing the News