Today is the official launch day for PowerCorps, the Bus’s summer-long political bootcamp. And because PowerCorps is a big big deal, we’re starting it off right. This evening, we’re holding a star-studded dessert kick-off party in this mysterious penthouse. Pretty sweet, eh? Now the fun: can you name the building it’s in?
Hint: it’s a famous building, a landmark in Seattle, and you’ve always wondered if anyone lives in this part of it. Turns out the answer is yes! But which building?
Wow. If you’re not up on the new Choklate album, get there. It’s one of the finest Seattle albums… ever. And here’s the debut video, a split with “Sun’s out and “Grown folks.” Just listen/watch and try not to nod along. Impossible. Congrats Chok, that’s what we call a good look.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Twitter is doing something important – that it’s filling some gap we didn’t even know existed in our information consciousness. As much as we don’t like to be the shrill guy in the corner preaching with the enthusiasm of the newly-converted, we’re totally going to (bear with us).
We saw it in Mumbai, and we’re seeing it on a national and international level now in Iran: Twitter providing a simple, real-time flow of information that makes any other source look slow and lumbering in comparison.
We’ve often described Twitter as like being in a room with you friends. You can have one on one conversations, and you can also hear what the people around you are saying. Or both at the same time. It just so happens that now the room is the entire world, and we’re talking about a nascent quasi-revolution.
Bottom line: we like Twitter. Once you get past the hundreds of “dude on bus just fell lol” tweets (yes, we said tweets), it’s a ridiculously amazing communication tool. This guy says it pretty well:
