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" It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive. "

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" 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

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" A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. "

" As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch. "

" I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart. "

" I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? "

Kara Swisher

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" I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better. "

" I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else. "

" Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic. "

" 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. "

" I don't write about Google except to insult the company. "

" The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists. "

" Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.' "

" 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

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" I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web. "

" 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? "

" It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. "

" It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing. "

" 'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however. "

" 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. "

" Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. "

" 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. "

" Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer. "

" I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about. "

" No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW. "

" We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time. "

" I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. "

Kara Swisher

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