Biz Stone used an age-shortener to fit his birthday onto Twitter; Julia Allison tried doing math with her brain; and Ana Marie Cox attempted to flirt with Rahm Emanuel over basic cable. The Twitterati turned to tools of last resort.

It's annoying to interview a source for an hour just to get one stupid quote. So, Bloomberg reporter Dan Golden thought he'd go ahead and write a quote for his source. One critical of a Bloomberg competitor, no less.

The leading lights of the liberal blogosphere are up in arms because the lefty organizations whose agendas they promote—Americans United for Change, the Democratic campaign committees, etc.—aren't coughing up ad dollars. So they're threatening them!