Quote of the Day

"Okay, just going to come out and say it: Allen West raised more money than Kendrick Meek last quarter. Fear the future, my friends."

Blogger Joy-Ann Reid, on her Twitter account.

Meek raised a disappointing $1 million during the past fundraising quarter. Republican Congressional candidate Allen West raised $1.4 million this past quarter.

Meek is toast.

Quote of Day

"Joe Wilson on camera signing autographs of picture of him yelling "you lie." R u kidding me?"

New York Times's visual columnist Charles M. Blow, on Twitter.

A School For Twiiter?

This is too funny. Democracy For America is having an online night school to teach progressives how to use Twitter.

DFA Night School is back to help you master the emerging art of Twitter. This new medium is rising faster than any other social networking platform, but is it destined to be overloaded with celebrity gossip and trivia or will it become a revolutionary tool for social change? We will explore it's strengths and limitations as we work to separate the hype from Reality on using Twitter to organizing online.

Let me save you the time. Say something interesting, be funny and have useful links. That is the best way to use Twitter. Twitter.com/pushingrope is an offshoot of the blog. Most of the successful progressives on Twitter are bloggers. We all tweet each other back and forth. Don't worry about being part of the cool kids groups. Just be interesting and humorous. Don't just regurgitate information or post incoherent nonsense (see Atrios.) Be original.