NYTimes Editor @palafo "Twitter is a conversation. You get what you put into it." http://j.mp/ftmy6G via @digiphile #j226 #j395

While newspapers have moved away, to some extent, from multi-part serial narratives, there are signs of mini-serialization everywhere: in the cartoon strips and panels that let us visit our favorite characters each morning; in the racehorse coverage of local and national elections; in recurring news stories about Chilean miners trapped in a mine, or a British Petroleum well polluting the Gulf of Mexico.

Class meets in HUM 304 today. (@ San Francisco State University w/ 10 others) http://4sq.com/2YrlRz