Professor Wellman, Might I suggest a cheeky response to some of your URL-hungry twitter folks? Say, for example, you had tweeted about Robert Gibbs leaving the White House... http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=nyt+gibbs+to+leave+as+white+house+press+secretary They also have a handy tiny.url button on LMGTFY to hide your true intentions. (A bit less mean-spirited than a friend of mine who sometimes instructs people to FGI, or Friggin' Google It.) -Justin ------------------------------------------------------- Justin Reedy Doctoral candidate Department of Communication University of Washington jsreedy@gmail.com jreedy@uw.edu ------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:50:38 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] a humourous aside to e- vs paper references I read the PAPER NY Times most days (and just to confuse things, the one that comes to Toronto is not the one that stays in NYC or goes to LA).

When I tweet, I'll often just say "[title] in the NYT, 4Jan11." But some tweeps demand to know the URL! I can't even give the page #, as it differs by regional edition.

Yours in multipronged communication Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________

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