Joe the Plumber thinks reporters shouldn't cover wars. Interferes with the feel-good propaganda.

OJR's Robert Niles is pimping Twitter.

So is Kirk LaPointe (partly in response to Niles).

The Poynter Institute's Ellyn Angelotti has this primer on tweeting for Journos.

Here's my Twitter experiment for the day. I posted this little brain-teaser late this afternoon:

Who are the 'best' neighborhood Tweeters in Toronto, in terms of providing news about their nabes?

Still waiting for a response. I'll likely never get one.

The BBC has a good collection in an article entitled The 'misunderestimated' president?

If you want to see the goofy side of the early Bush, look for a documentary called Journeys With George, by Alexandra Pelosi. It's her "home movie" of the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign.

In it, Dubya does an imitation of himself mangling his stump speech that really is quite funny.

Unforunately, his presidency was no laughing matter.

Dubya held his final newser this morning. Here's a tag cloud from Twitscoop:

Bush's final newser got people tweeting, as this chart (captured shortly after the newser started) shows:

And here's a BBC tag cloud analyzing Bush's eight State of the Union speeches:

There's lots of other charts attached to that page, so click through.

It would be interesting to see word maps of other modern U.S. presidents' SOTU speeches.

I've updated this post: For 2009, what to learn from the coalition crisis?

I'm getting close to being done with how the media reported it. I'm now moving into how the blogosphere handled the crisis.