So it's come to this? An online quarantine! U.S. Congress members and their legion of genius(!) staffers are placed in the penalty box by Wikipedia after months of intentional mischief & mis-edits that catches the attention of @CongressEdits. But it's not like local, county and state officials (and their staffers) are any different with their deliberate attempt at mis-direction, esp. in Florida and the use of Twitter

Your tax dollars are hard at work editing the "Horse head mask" page on Wikipedia http://t.co/SkqKCStFHX pic.twitter.com/ZC2HJXlbaq
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 11, 2014

When Congress changes Wikipedia, @CongressEdits tells you http://t.co/s1bK9PoKYx
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) July 12, 2014

Twitter watchdog @congressedits keeps tabs on Wikipedia changes from Congress http://t.co/cvKVi4XBKJ pic.twitter.com/30VDvT9vhb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 15, 2014

Wikipedia imposes ban on edits from computers at US Congress after "persistent disruptive editing" http://t.co/qWQuNzAyuQ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 25, 2014

@CongressEdits https://twitter.com/congressedits

For an example of the curious self-editing and treatment of news from politicians in South Florida see this blog post from May 9, 2012 titled "The curious case of Broward County Comm. candidate Marty Kiar's Tweets, which, for me, are more revealing for what they DON'T say"
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/curious-case-of-broward-county-comm.html

Proof positive that no photo of Alyssa Milano is without its magnetic CHARM. Not that we EVER doubted it!

Above, Minnesota Vikings Women's Laser Cut 3/4 Sleeve Pullover Hoodie
Touch by Alyssa Milano http://www.ijcool.com

Behind the scenes at ABC-TV's hit show Castle, with Alyssa Milano:




Alyssa's appearance back in January, A Rose for Everafter, was only my favorite of the season. Wow!
You can watch the episode here in its entirety:
http://abc.go.com/watch/castle/SH559040/VD5569242/a-rose-for-everafter

It's easy to see in mere moments why Alyssa's clever and witty photo site has become one of my personal favorite social media additions this year: http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/

A couple of seconds to take, a few minutes of amusement & delight!
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/self-portrait-entitled-really-freaking-bored
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/my-new-favorite-photo-app-for-the-iphone-pict
At the 2010 MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/this-is-what-i-am-doing-right-now-picture
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/omg-a-gift-from-asg-fanfest-from-chloroformda
(That's the Roberto Clemente bobble-head in her hands.)


http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/asg-hi-picture-from-the-field
and http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/asg-picture-from-the-dugout
Good morning, this is your courtesy wake-up photo:
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/good-morning-my-hubby-just-sent-me-this-pictu
"Who can turn the world on with her smile?"
http://www.alyssa.com/touch-clothing/new-nfl-touch-ad/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCL3B5LgUCo

http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/photo-from-the-2010-touchbyam-nfl-commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWdNG3wsw

So, you're asking yourself, why did I run the Mary Tyler Moore Show videos here of the famous MTM theme song, "Love Is All Around" by Sonny Curtis, in the middle of Alyssa's Touch NFL apparel photos?
The purple #10 Fran Tarkenton Vikings jersey Mary wears!
(At 0:24 while washing her Ford Mustang)
Always one of my favorite parts of the opening credits!

Compare and contrast with Alyssa at the top of the blog, or here:
Above, Miami Dolphins Full Zip Velour Cheer JacketTouch by Alyssa Milano http://www.fansedge.com/
Trust me, I knew some of them and the "Dolphin Dolls" were never like this!

New York Times
Suiting Up in Jerseys Suitable for WomenBy Tanzina Vega
August 25, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/business/media/26adco.html

However strange it may seem to actually read in print, the more you pay attention to such things, the more you know that in some very fundamental ways, the current reality is that Alyssa intuitively "gets" the new media universe MUCH better than the McClatchy folks running the Miami Herald and the Tribune Company people running the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. That's our reality.

CNN
What's new with Twitter?August 2010
Jessica Yellin interviews Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2010/08/09/ym.jack.dorsey.twitter.square.cnn.html


http://www.alyssa.com/
http://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano
http://alyssa.mlblogs.com/


Touch by Alyssa Milano:
http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3294500and http://www.nflshop.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=3743308&ab=HP_Include_Touch



http://www.fandalia.com/

Julia Baird's excellent "Being Julia: Australia’s new prime minister breaks the glass ceiling"; while Alex Sink's campaign in FL flounders painfully

Well, despite the often very accurate knock about Twitter that it is the greatest tool for people to share their nonsense about their hum-drum life since Alexander Graham Bell did his thing with the telephone -see Our True, Tweeting Selves,Why historians salivate over Twitter

at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/21/our-true-tweeting-selves.html sometimes Twitter is actually very useful, as when I checked in on one of my go-to people this afternoon, Newsweek's Deputy Editor Julia Baird, courtesy of her Twitter account at http://twitter.com/bairdnewsweek .

There I saw that she'd just posted this: "My column for Newsweek on Australia's first female Prime Minister, the straight-shooting Julia Gillard."

It's excellent.
Baird shoots and she scores!

Newsweek
Being Julia
Australia’s new prime minister breaks the glass ceiling

By Julia Baird

What a gloriously surprising day it was when Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister.

The trumpets sounded, journalists roared, and Australian women updated their Facebook status to, simply, “Julia.” The circumstances were not ideal—she ousted a once popular prime minister, and she had not won a general election—but the significance of the moment was enormous. Finally, after centuries of bowing to queens while women were locked out of the highest echelons of political office, Australians watched a straight-shooting, unaffected woman seize the real reins of power.

Gillard, 48, the daughter of a coal miner and a former industrial-relations lawyer, has a pragmatic approach to politics and a record of fighting for better conditions for workers, and for greater numbers of women in Parliament. She is well respected and hails from the left of her party.

See the rest of the article at: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/24/being-julia.html

See her story on Gillard for the Sydney Morning Herald, her former newspaper for nine years, Lessons from sisters who fell on the way

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/lessons-from-sisters-who-fell-on-the-way-20100624-z3qr.html

Check out this SMH video: -I accept the anger: Gillard
Friday, June 25, 2010 4:33 AM
Julia Gillard tells Paul Bongiorno that she fully accepts the anger of the Australian people at the removal of Kevin Rudd.

Julia Gillard's first press conference as Australian Prime Minister.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXlUdSBOYk

For more from Julia Baird, see http://www.newsweek.com/authors/julia-baird.html

FYI: Not enough time to get into it here now, but back when I was at JFK Junior High in North Miami Beach, circa 1973-'75, my family was all set to move to Sydney. Typically, besides reading all the materials from the Australian Embassy from cover-to-cover, I made it my job to learn everything I could about Australian Rules Football, since I didn't want to show up at school and be odd man out. http://www.afl.com.au/

Not so easy in those pre-Internet days at the Lafe Allen Library in NMB. Actually, try impossible!