Unleash the techie in yourself and join the twitterverse

Fun fact: you can follow Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on twitter! Verified account is @netanyahu ... or Pres. Obama @BarackObama ... etc etc. I checked Mahmoud Abbas, just to keep things "fair and balanced" (and I use that phrase more faithfully than does Fox), but the initial search has revealed no verified accounts.

Lovely. The list of those I follow now includes fellow Dickinsonians, politicians, authors, actors, and masses of news organizations throughout the world. Somehow, actually receiving tweets from bestselling authors (Sloane Crosley!) or major Bollywood stars (Vivek Oberoi! Comments on the US/Ghana World Cup game brought us together)... it all makes the world seem that much smaller.

The speed at which this is all thrown at you, though, is overwhelming, to say the least. Daily headline emails, afternoon headlines, global updates at 11pm, twitter, news alerts, facebook, etc, and that's just online.... eesh. It's a sad irony that so much news has actually made it more difficult to feel that I'm keeping on top of it, as there's so much more to keep on top of.... it's like having less time to read because I work at the library.

Still, how fantastic is it that one can get news that quickly and from so many different sources and perspectives... it's grand! Slightly overwhelming/bewildering, but grand nonetheless.