Tag Archives: New York University
Five NYU Grad Students Testing E-Mail Project For Anyone To Reach Broader Audience
There are five students at New York University that want to solve the problem of the lack of listeners for your blog posts and tweets. They are getting people to sign up for a program called The Listserve. The Listserve would allow one person per day to send out an e-mail to thousands (maybe millions) of people through a random lottery e-mail system.
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Categories Clay Shirky, Josh Begley, New York University
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NYU Fellow Nir Rosen Resigns Shortly After Making Crude Comments On Twitter
Nir Rosen is a journalist that is focused on politics and war. He had spent more than two years in Iraq to monitor the relationship between the Americans and Iraqis. Rosen has resigned from a fellowship position at the New York University Center On Law and Security after writing a few crude comments about CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.
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Categories Lara Logan, New York University, Nir Rosen, Twitter
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OMGICU Convinces Tracy Morgan To Join Twitter
OMGICU is a website where users report what celebrities that they have spotted are doing. Some examples include Gerard Butler eating a Japanese dinner with Bjork and Mischa Barton walking into Guggenheim. Tracy Morgan was one of the most spotted celebrities, so OMGICU started a new website called Twacy.org where the goal was to make Tracy Morgan join Twitter. And it worked. Tracy Morgan joined Twitter today.
OMGICU was founded by Hugh Dornbush and he said that Morgan “is someone who just really resonates with people, and his sense of humor and his sensibilities are so well-suited to the medium,” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “Once you put it on their radar, it’s been pretty easy to find people who say, ‘I would rather be living in a world where Tracy Morgan is sharing his day to day life with us.’”
Dornbush dropped out of the New York University Stern School of Business to start OMGICU and plans to expand the service in Los Angeles. OMGICU started about 15 months ago. Another reason why Dornbush started Twacy.org was because some of Tracy Morgan’s celebrity spottings on OMGICU were quite odd and funny.
For example, one user spotted “Tracy Morgan driving a Yellow Lamborghini with a blond woman listening to Sade.” Another user reported “tracy morgain [sic] is walking around soho eating blueberries looking confused.”
Tracy Morgan was asked by his fans to join Twitter and he has responded by joining the microblogging service. Just as we expected, Morgan’s tweets are extremely entertaining. Below are some of the tweets he sent out since joining:
- Welcome To Tracy Morgans World… about 7 hours ago from web
- my d**khead is shaped liked a darth vadar helmet. my d**k is so fat it looks like r2d2. about 5 hours ago from web
- The wait is over! The black Svengali has arrived! I’m on the street turning good girls bad and getting them pregnant!!! about 5 hours ago from web
- Im a good parent so ill induce the labor about 4 hours ago from web
- Just got in the house. Feeling tired from working 30 Rock. Getting ready to crash. Good night my loves. 6 minutes ago from web
Categories Hugh Dornbush, New York University, OMGICU, Tracy Morgan
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