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" BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart. "
Kara Swisher
Been
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" Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one? "
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" Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general. "
Kara Swisher
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Small
Facebook
" It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream. "
Kara Swisher
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Time
My Life
" I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code. "
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I Am
Service
Work
" Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother. "
Kara Swisher
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" The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards. "
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" Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit. "
Kara Swisher
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Call
" While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter. "
Kara Swisher
See
Saying
Facebook
" Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog. "
Kara Swisher
Growing
Internet
Hollywood
" I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading. "
Kara Swisher
Honest
Think
Way
" It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do. "
Kara Swisher
People
Journalism
Nature
" Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago. "
Kara Swisher
Brain
Sunday
Sunny
" Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will. "
Kara Swisher
Myself
Home
Think
" My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude. "
Kara Swisher
Kind
Me
Rude
" I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? "
Kara Swisher
Geek
Am
Freak
" I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else. "
Kara Swisher
Somewhere
Always
Find
" Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic. "
Kara Swisher
Most
Strategic
Reporters
" While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not. "
Kara Swisher
Impact
Good
Values
" In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings. "
Kara Swisher
Gift
Rejection
Nobody
" As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. "
Kara Swisher
More
Become
Will
" One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod. "
Kara Swisher
Vacation
Testing
Memories
" Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. "
Kara Swisher
Technology
iPhone
Despite
" Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me. "
Kara Swisher
Me
Myself
Service
" Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line. "
Kara Swisher
Stand
Go
Line
" Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. "
Kara Swisher
Time
Wireless
Fate
" I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web. "
Kara Swisher
Money
Place
Journalism
" Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it. "
Kara Swisher
Truth
I Am
Humor
" It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing. "
Kara Swisher
Whole
Learning
Filled
" I don't write about Google except to insult the company. "
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Write
Company
Google
" Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.' "
Kara Swisher
Washington
Early
Everything