<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df446476-5ac0-4f6f-a0ce-4e9b5a467aa6/D8067ACB-0E34-4305-BB1B-1C3C8F7AB52C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556" href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cqpolitics.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556"><H1 class="headline-story">Media: Tweets, Blogs and Leaves </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556"><H3 class="byline-story"> <A href="#" class="bylinelnk">By Elizabeth Wasserman, CQ Columnist</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556"><P>By 2000, print, TV, cable, radio and Internet companies such as AOL lined “Internet Alleys” in Los Angeles and Philadelphia and fed online convention coverage portals. Four years ago, as TV networks cut back air time for the increasingly predictable conventions, “Blogger Alley” joined the technological streetscape in both Boston and New York, producing more partisan coverage.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556"><P>So what’s it going to be this time around? I think I can answer that in 140 characters or less: Twitter.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=weeklyreport-000002933556"><P>For those out of the technological loop — or without kids or colleagues in the teen-to-twentysomething demographic — Twitter is the hot new social networking phenomenon. It allows users to instantly inform their friends or fans of what they’re doing, seeing or thinking — as long as the communication can be done in no more than 140 keystrokes. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8067ACB-0E34-4305-BB1B-1C3C8F7AB52C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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