- The city of Bozeman has hired a social media manager on a roughly $30,000 contract to post updates about road closures, conditions and detours.
- An Amtrak press release about its new high-tech locomotives includes suggested tweets.
- The New Yorker’s upcoming cover marking the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, which features Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, has evoked some strong reactions.
- Just a week after Instagram added video, it has decimated main competitor Vine in number of videos shared to Twitter. Irony: Twitter owns Vine.
- A New York Times interactive looks at some of the ways that reasonable, if somewhat over-the-top movie pitches get amped way up by a Hollywood culture bent on creating the next monster blockbuster.