The Internet has been crackling with weird, random celebrity death rumors since last Thursday, when Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died. Thursday night rumors of Jeff Goldblum’s demise were greatly exaggerated via Twitter (trending topic!); the actual death on Sunday of TV pitchman Billy Mays seems to have added to the actual celebrity-death trend (begun [...]

Al Roker has a lively and very engaged Twitter feed, filled with replies and conversational back-and-forths (and weather reports, as Spencer Pratt no doubt would point out). I caught this exchange last night, between Al and some young punk. I love the inter-generational schooling going on here. Apparently My Little Margie was a big deal. [...]

I posted earlier earlier about about my friend Veronica De La Cruz, who has been working social media like crazy to save her brother Eric, who needs a heart transplant but couldn’t get one due to ridiculous inter-state red tape (he’s covered in Nevada but there are no centers who perform the operation; however, the [...]