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" People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that. "

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" I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own. "

Kara Swisher

Own

California

Death

" Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. "

" I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic. "

" 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. "

" Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since. "

" As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. "

Kara Swisher

Become

Will

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Rude

" 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. "

" I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary. "

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

Kara Swisher

Geek

Freak

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes. "

" 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

Myself

Service

" As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way. "

" '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. "

" 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

Relevant

Call