Web Monitor
16:33 UK time, Thursday, 3 September 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Among the questions straining Web Monitor's cerebral cortex today: can you send twits in the post? Was there ever a moment on bloggers' lips about a certain model's hips? And how clean is Sarah Palin's house? Share your favourite bits of the internet by sending a link through the letter box to the right of this page.
• Web Monitor has wondered before what Vanity Fair has got against Sarah Palin. Is it that she is a hockey mom? If so, it's time to drop that particular prejudice because it now seems she doesn't even deserve that tag, according to the father of Palin's daughter's baby :
"The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn't much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn't cook, Todd doesn't cook--the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I'd barbecue chicken or steak on the grill."
Johnston also claims that Sarah Palin wanted to keep the pregnancy secret:
"Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret--nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn't have to worry about anything."
• If we needed any more evidence that Twitter was strictly for those over 30, we have it - Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4's Today programme presenter :
"stop counting letters and get a life instead".
On the show this morning, listeners to send a "twit". So , maybe in a hope they won't make the same faux-pas.
The tweeter who started the Twitter campaign in support of the NHS, as documented in his own blog , :
Could the person who helped get to grips with her computer please contact John Humphreys? Start slow, for God's sake!
As you may have guessed, Ivy Bean is 104 years old and has her own Twitter account.
• united Web Monitor and our older sibling Paper Monitor on a search through bloggerland. We were manically looking for the critics of a little bit of tummy fat, donned by model Lizzie Miller in Glamour magazinementioned in Paper Monitor:
"Lizzie Miller is in the eye of a blogosphere storm for daring to show a little unairbrushed tummy fat..."
But after Paper Monitor's failure to find any online villification of said model Web Monitor must confess that it too has failed to unearth any fat-hating bloggers. If you can find anyone on the blogosphere who is disgusted by Lizzie Miller's ability to pinch an inch send the link via the letters box.
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