@ivortossell @balkissoon Sure, we always had strong hunches people wanted trash. Now we empirically KNOW it, Ivor. Through SCIENCE.

@balkissoon @ivortossell Dismayingly, the algorithmic approach demonstrates how badly editors have failed to meet readers' needs—for years.

@balkissoon @ivortossell Yes, there's obvious (now, quantified!) demand for everything Demand is doing. That's what's depressing about it...

Another classic D.B. full-disclosure... RT @Canadianmags: Hmmmmm... http://bit.ly/4gGlYv

This @Wired article on Demand Media is terrifying. This company is the freelance Antichrist. http://bit.ly/21V9p6

@scrawledinwax OK, so I caught half the reference. But is annotated link blogging so ancient in origin (i.e. a decade ago)?

@scrawledinwax Isn't "hypertext as the future of fiction" a totally played-out 1970s academic micro-discipline?

The McSweeney's newspaper (http://bit.ly/4jh7NX) doesn't seem like the medium's rebirth — more like its big supernova finish.

RT @balkissoon Feds propose EI benefits for the self-employed. 'Bout damn time. http://bit.ly/3yqCpM

@kimpittaway The truth hurts. I know I've used that cliché plenty of times.

@karenkho That article in the latest Wired on Demand Media was kind of terrifying. $1 for "fact-checking!"

Ha — someone hacked my apartment building directory to play Windows 98 Pinball instead: http://twitpic.com/o20nk

Death to email attachments. Get a Dropbox account or something. http://bit.ly/Tayda

@JesseKG If the Nobel committee had a prize for art direction, he'd be a shoo-in. World Peace? Yeah, I'm with you on that: we'll see.

The "Designing Obama" book is going ahead (woot): http://bit.ly/1wW5CX

I wish the RIAA would send a bogus takedown notice for the copyrighted song that's stuck in my head.

Despite chatter re Bing, etc., @google is still the only search that matters (in blue): http://twitpic.com/n9vg1 (this.org figures)

Awesome: used Google Docs OCR to convert a This Mag article from 2004. With high-res scan, it's super-accurate: http://bit.ly/8bMlT

@clevack I think we both know this isn't about me. It's about you and your addiction to partying on.

@clevack "sexy garth from wayne's world" is, obviously, redundant.

@typeter No new Rockports this year—total editorial indifference must have been too obvious last October...

@karenkho Was meant to be a flashback to Arrested Development, but whatevs...

@HeatherLeson Quick, someone get me a lottery ticket, stat!

@joyce_byrne @thismason True on both counts. I feel better already.

Inwardly, I heard this: http://bit.ly/sHtzo

As it pulled away, realized I left my gloves on the streetcar. Then a seagull shat on my head *and* shoes. True story.

This is a super-important project. I'll be donating. RT @economicwoman Introducing Shameless Wire: http://bit.ly/2GBM5u

For the record, the Old Spaghetti Factory photo was a poster at King station. I haven't been there personally in, like, 3 weeks at least.

Wow: $2 corkage fee at... The Old Spaghetti Factory. Classy! http://twitpic.com/mfhk0

@ACCheng "Wasteland" as in "iconic Eliot poem" or as in "bleak lifeless hellscape"? I vote the latter.

Just bought this shirt (http://bit.ly/1oqbFa) from the brilliant @beatonna. Recommended daily intake of irony: met.

Look: Emigre has released "Mr. Eaves," the long-awaited sans--serif companion to their iconic "Mrs. Eaves" typeface: http://bit.ly/8gKev

David Hockney's iPhone "Brushes" obsession. A thousand digital paintings in six months! http://bit.ly/2he9IB

@geoperdis Oh, of course. @Canadianmags is one dude, btw

@mondoville Also @sarahbarmak

@mondoville What about @canadianmags for the Twitter 100? (my position on which I will fiercely defend)

@typeter That's a sad statement. Haven't tried it myself—I just think even uttering the words "instant coffee" should embarrass them.

@kellikorducki C'est What? Also like five restaurants along the Esplanade.

The release of "VIA™ Ready Brew" instant coffee: it's time to put Starbucks on brand suicide watch.

Off to see @sarahbarmak's lecture on mixed martial arts at Trampoline Hall.

A pretty great spoiler (for a pretty craptastic tv series): http://bit.ly/114Ba3

@griffithgreene Hey, and I've put your '08 Amy Winehouse piece up on This.org today. So much pissed-off-fan potential!

IOC: Beautiful Rio — where the drug dealers shoot down police helicopters: http://bit.ly/JZAuv

Love the concept of the UNESCO "Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage."

@clevack Bingo. See you there?

@sarahbarmak @ivortossell Truer words, friends. Truer words: http://bit.ly/hY13A

@ivortossell Are you in the neighbourhood of Soundscapes any time soon? Would you buy me a Trampoline ticket and I'll reimburse?

@kellikorducki Totally disagree re: Wes Anderson. I respect that uncompromising aesthetic. Artist's duty is to create, not be nice coworker.

Hey, Foursquare just launched in Toronto. Is that a thing?

@typeter Oh, well, that doesn't sound so bad. Did you reach conclusions about any of these questions?

@typeter Are you having a stroke?

@lisanjutras A flyaway balloon counts as media spectacle now? Hope the terrorists don't master the "jangling the car keys" trick.

I don't know what this balloon ruckus is, and I don't want to know. I'm sitting this one out.

Today I'm just picking on the Globe for some reason: http://twitpic.com/lnaac

Award for the most tortuous, pointless avoidance of the word "fuck" goes to @globeandmail: http://twitpic.com/lm4as

Forgoing Ed2010 party to attend @masslbp talk with @alanmwebber instead. Later: Press Pass 2, if still standing.

(Current issue is also brilliant RT @pomeranian99: Brilliant: The next McSweeney's will be a newspaper. http://bit.ly/3uhSto

@sarahbarmak Elementary or High School?

@lisanjutras Hey, don't go all caps-lock on me, I didn't spoil anything! Your beef is with @nerdygirly. I'm just an innocent bystander.

@lisanjutras Oh come on, we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

Reason not to use Shazam for iPhone: Hear a song, think "hmm, I like that," then find out it's, like, Creed.

@catesimpson That is indeed a shame: http://bit.ly/14zg2f

@tiffing Mazel tov on the M&S writeup!

@mawilson Your classmates sound, um, a tad dim.

@tiffing @typeter What's all this with the mixtape liner note hilarity? Do tell.

Thinking about taking @kattancock's "Creating Website Editorial" course at Ryerson: http://bit.ly/1gDh3E

@timothycomeau I am on a Mac. I'll try that next time, thanks!

Why must the software that comes bundled with scanners be so janky and unusable? Epson Corp: what did I ever do to you?

@WaxEBuildup I was wondering who that was! What with the dash and the bike helmet, I was at a loss. I 100% approve not getting run over.

Name this phobia: worrying that you're too privileged to ever be truly interesting.

@nonstopnicktv ...53 people arrested, with 38.5 grams of product? I'm not sure who to be more embarrassed for, cops or dealers.

Also: just want to note that we now live in a world where key question for events is not "what are you wearing?" but "what's our hashtag?"

Off to see the "What's next for news" thing at Ryerson.

@mhousley See you there.

I'm sure a robot pancake-stacker is a technical achievement, but what sick freaks are eating factory-produced pancakes? http://bit.ly/4jmJuN

Google Wave? That is SO September 30. Please keep up.

@lisanjutras @boyreporter To quote Tina Fey, describing Alex Baldwin: "An eagle, with the head of a bear?"

Ain't too proud to beg. RT @HeatherLeson RT @goowaveinvites: we got some google wave invites... you need one? RT this !! #googlewave #wave

@nerdygirly Boo! I hope this isn't catching, because in our office, I'll get defrauded AND get a cold next week.

@nerdygirly The @walrusmagazine tweeter totally name-checked you at this CSME event. You're famous!

At CSME twitter-thing with small — but elite — crowd: http://twitpic.com/jrl48

Zombie brand Brylcreem lurching back to life?: http://bit.ly/tYvLe — Is there anything "Mad Men" can't resurrect?

Factoid! China has 37,000 people employed in the (evil-sounding) field of "weather modification": http://bit.ly/3QC03

@walrusmagazine @UnionSt Remember to talk about metrics for monetizing your strategic content engagements.

@karenkho That's good. I scored 12. Only slightly better than flipping a coin, really...

Early-adopter nerdy fingers crossed: want one of these 100,000 Google Wave invites. http://bit.ly/b7pQC

Factoid! RT @griffithgreene @PD_Smith David Foster Wallace & Dan Brown took a writing class together at Amherst: http://bit.ly/2VJQLp

@kimpittaway re: tweet-comments, Backtype offers a wordpress plugin that does that, looks like. Haven't tried it.

@ACCheng Was a good day, all in all, thanks for stopping by. Yes, a This/LRC playdate at the Victory sounds like a great idea.

@nboccia Already took the survey!

I said lay-day — step inside my Hyundai. http://song.ly/1ntbs

Do you ever resent your own productivity because it was necessary, not optional? Like, "I got a lot done—because I had to."

Gawker teaches me a new word (last word in the post): Geriarchy! Will try to use it in a sentence today. http://bit.ly/12xcG7

@kimpittaway You should be able to set it so it'll only email you a coupon if it meets your nutritional criteria.

Thanks all! Context: rating people's online savvy. Kinda a "wired or tired" thing. At the moment, label is "FAIL or FTW?" Is that lame?

Quick: what's the internet-opposite of "FAIL"? — Is it "WIN"? "FTW"? Stumped.

Perez Hilton × Lawrence Welk = "Celebrity Good Life" (nice celebrity news blog—brought to you by Hallmark. http://bit.ly/6dD7k)

The EU's new website looks remarkably like one of those placeholder pages domain squatters use: http://bit.ly/y8WzV

@mgpcoe uh, welcome home?

@kattancock If it were in town, maybe. But I don't think I'm going to fly to Greece for it...