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Alan Mutter (above) reports that journalists didn’t kvetch at Googleplex. Personally I don’t believe it, but he was there and I wasn’t:

They said a conference about the future of journalism couldn’t take place without the usual qvetching [sic] about the golden, olden days of journalism, with publishers grieving shriveled margins and editors caviling about the bloggers challenging their previously unassailable wisdom.

But we did it. The two-day Media Technology Summit sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley adjourned today without sliding into the Bermuda Triangle of denial, anger and depression that ordinarily characterizes such shindigs.

Read more about the summit on Mutter’s blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur.

[Photo: MediaBistro.com]

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

alleciav: I didn’t know a grocery store could offer me emotional (and literal) fulfillment. Then I met Berkeley Bowl West.

KellyGDunbar: More from Michael Pollan’s lecture in Berkeley: New rule, avoid any “food” you’ve seen advertised on TV.

jeffdenby: There’s a wierd lookin dude plastering “Arrest John Yoo” posters all over downtown Berkeley. Who’s John Yoo? Did I miss something?

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

TheKatzer: Last day at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, with the best transmission electron microscope in the world, but the most terrible office coffee ever.

ccmarshall: http://twitpic.com/j5n5w – Great drawing I found on the ground when I was on campus (UC Berkeley) today.

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

adrianmcintyre: Inspired by what UC Berkeley undergrads in the Global Poverty & Practice minor are out there doing in the world. Such passion & commitment!

CraigFaulk: Is in Berkeley @ work. Working on my farmer tan and the “racoon/ski goggle” look that the ladies go wild for

jacquelinegu: Heard the loveliest love story today from a French lady at Berkeley Bowl, while picking tomatoes.

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

tseng_tseng: Sitting at a cafe in Downtown Berkeley sipping my Pumpkin Spice Latte & listening to Train- Hey Soul Sister. It cant get better than this

Catharsis: sake tasting at the takara sake factory in berkeley for the first time. i’m epicurioliciously psyched.

kaottic97: Wow, looks like the WB Zephyr is late, but having it rush by at 70 mph at Berkeley station is pretty exciting!

MyOwnVelouria: Walking the pier at the Berkeley marina, more than a mile out into the open bay, San Francisco and Marin across the water. Awe. Some.

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

andilygrrr: Fat raindrops on my windshield, navigating through Berkeley, R.E.M. crooning through the speakers. Love it.

debaoki: Totally overdid it at Berkeley Bowl again. now have more food than 2 people can reasonably eat in a week.

TrendologistK: Berkeley’s Thai Temple Sunday brunch was so delicious, I can’t wait to go back for more authentic dishes. What a great community event!

honeybuzzer: First the Bay to Breakers crackdown, now How Berkeley Can You Be canceled. The War on Fun continues…

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

wirehead: thinks that Berkeley is an excellent example of how naively making it hard to drive solves nothing.

mikeblaustein: I’m sitting in a Berkeley coffee shop as three male jewish intellectuals discuss jdate tactics. So THATS me in 40 years, right?

berzerkeley: inspired by @rachelannyes I am working on the logistics of using the Berkeley Adult School’s parking lot for a Sunday Farmers Market.

erik_o: Berkeley meter maid cited me as I was putting coins in the meter. Said I wasn’t fast enough. Lost a little more love for my hometown today.

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

EvieN: Driving through the hills above Berkeley in Beetle convertible listening to remastered Yellow Submarine. This is an ad for something.

justinkwaters: Unicycling downhill through the cal-berkeley campus: way cooler than than riding a fixie through the mission.

Gelidity: Gotta love Berkeley. I’m walking down the street and I ask this guy for a light. He didn’t have one so he gave me a brownie!!

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GO BEARS! Overheard on the Twitterstream today:

jaspaldesign: met 84 year old food chemist at Picante in Berkeley who explained fake crab, boxed wine, olive garden recipes, and beechwood-aged.

t3chnicolorbrit: Note to self- don’t go to another Berkeley game unless thoroughly hammered.

JosiahMarkP: Cal Bears beating Maryland in a manner that is outlawed in thirty seven states.

joebrilliant: Turtle wax on, turtle wax off. Cal Bears exact revenge on Maryland Terrapins by eating them alive, 52-13. Level 1: complete. Roll On!

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Overheard today on the Twitterstream:

Drakonskyr: I’m in Berkeley and I’m not wearing pants. Not how I anticipated my life going, really.

yagarilla: All the crazy people in Berkeley hang out at Mcdonald’s. Does the food make them crazy or are they crazy to be eating the food?

TwatDestroy666: is damn surprised that ill be able to ride my moto up University Ave in Berkeley due to the newly paved street finally..thank you stimulus.

bmpack: is shocked to learn that there’s no Berkeley ferry to SF yet. I thought there was.

MogeezyFoSheezy: Days like today are the reason I chose school in Berkeley. It’s beautiful, listening to 103.7 and feeling old school has never felt better.

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Now with added links! Starting today, Berkeley Tweets will link to the Twitter pages of the people whose tweets we publish. Some of us think this is a good idea. What do you think?

Overheard on the Twitterstream today:

jamaicanjerk: I won’t leave Berkeley until I have one last Carne Asada with everything at Gordo’s.

mejiacarlos: To drive in Berkeley is to be perpetually dodging the never-ending throng of pedestrians and cyclists who don’t follow the rules!

stevegoodwin: Spent Sunday at Berkeley Zen Center. The world seems sunny and reasonable today. Can a day of mindfulness practice really do that?

PunkHM: Walking around Berkeley by myself. Not really lost. Don’t you need to be going somewhere to be lost?

elizabethkarin: Only in Berkeley do parents yell at their kids on the playground, “Be conscious!” I <3 this town: free entertainment EVERYWHERE.

louispeitzman: The Berkeley hipster population has bred like rabbits. Rabbits with ironic facial hair and skinny jeans.

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Overhear on the Twitterstream today:

Brandileigha: That’s what i love about sf/berkeley, you can walk around dressed as a pirate at 7:30 in the am and not feel particularly odd.

Claudiatweets: I love how you can see the clouds move in berkeley. And you’re so close to them.

Marcusslaterus: The drunk chicks in the shuttle were the same drunk chicks behind us at the Berkeley concert last year.

Mgreene2700: Found $40 on the ground next to a jewelry stand in Berkeley today. Convinced it was fate so…new turquoise ring! yes:)

Justeennaa: Berkeley made me forget reality =]

Ncecire: Lavender fig jam: delicious, or just ridiculously Berkeley?

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Overheard on the Twitterstream today:

Lisa Campbell and Ally Jacobs, new American Heroes in the Jaycee Dugard case, way to go, UC Berkeley!!

Wearing tie-dyed t-shirt today to remind me I’m in Berkeley and not, say, Dallas, despite the heat.

Hot & bothered. A restless night in Berkeley where the high temps left every living being agitated and awake all night, at least in my hood.

I am a fan of the hash at Saul’s in Berkeley. Yum. Now I want hash for breakfast, darn you.

Warm night in Berkeley lying on the lawn outside PFA with a crowd of college kids watching a free outdoor movie projected onto the building.

From atop the Berkeley Hills, where the view often thrills. More stunning cloudscapes than usual this summer! http://bit.ly/c1rrus

Berkeley pedestrians are orthodox about traffic lights BUT THERE ARE NEVER ANY CARS.

Earlier sunset from Berkeley hills. Next time we’re bringing the pup! http://yfrog.com/2l7cxj

On the BART to Berkeley! Good public transportation makes me happy. LA makes me appreciate these basic civic necessities.

On telegraph, drinking ethiopian coffee while reading Heart of Darkness after buying antique french curtain clips. Oh, how i love berkeley.

Got my tix for “American Idiot” @ Berkeley Rep. Love that they warn you multiple times that Green Day won’t actually be there . LOLZ.

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The two big news items of the day, obviously, have been the the heat and the key role played by two UC Berkeley police officers in tracking down the kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who had been missing for 18 years.  And they were also the subjects of a large number of today’s Berkeley tweets.

Kudos to the UC Berkeley campus police!! I’m not reading enuf about their phenomenal role in the Dugard case.

ABC’s “Nightline” claims to have exclusive interview tonight with UC Berkeley cop who played key role in Jaycee Dugard case.

Just saw [news reporter] Lisa Ling downstairs in Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley!! So exciting….@hlf and I got her autograph!!

I always had a sneaking suspicion that all the non students that hang out at the uc berkeley campus are actually child raping lunatics.

The air is so clean up here in Berkeley – it’s disgusting!

Nap at berkeley library= relaxing

Omg, it feels just like greece today in berkeley. I really need to go back to athens…

Too hot in berkeley, going to pass out from the heat.

80° in Berkeley today ☺

Cool? At 70 degrees fahrenheit the people in Berkeley start to break a sweat…

It’s soooo hot in Berkeley…ugh.

WTF??? Why does Berkeley have LA weather?! I am very confused!

I have heard no less than three people in Berkeley today complaining about how hot it is outside. It is 80 degrees.

Every year SoCal students pack a tiny bit of heat & collectively free it in Berkeley the first week of school to remind them of home.

Dropped my keys running across the street…And nice Berkeley folk in their cars hollered at me to let me know. Phew.

Daily Science Fact: The cyclotron was invented by Ernest Lawrence at Cal Berkeley in 1934 to study the nuclear structure of the atom.

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Overheard today on Twitter:

I just asked the lady @ the Berkeley bread workshop if they make their own bread…WOW I need to lay off the ganja!

Amethyst clouds and silver diamond lights reflect the moonrise on Berkeley Hills houses. A fog bank hovers above the pine and cypress trees.

The best thing about getting lost, is finding your way through it and getting there. I Love Berkeley.

Overheard while walking the dog – two young people flirting on street corner, discussing Balkan politics. Only in #Berkeley o_O

“How Berkeley Can You Be” meatloaf: grass-fed hamburger ($8 per lb!) with some organic flax meal snuck in.

Before I forget: there are crazy homeless people in Berkeley who will point at people and repeat: “You’re a Jap! You’re a Jap!”

@ Berkeley farmers market. overheard some1 says global warming is a military issue- soon we’d be seeing tanks rolling down our streets. Huh?

I like how Berkeley dining halls are not “all you can eat” but “all you care to eat.”

First class ever taken at Berkeley: an entire course on Lolita. Grinned like an idiot through the whole first hour.

If there isn’t some sort of protest on the Berkeley campus, then you know something is very very wrong!!

Went up to the hills behind the stadium for my last Berkeley sunset. Has to be the damned prettiest place I’ve ever lived.

Berkeley Tweets, General

You never know what you’re going to find on Twitter.  From tweets on the current location of the CupKates truck or the latest political demonstration to sightings of strange behaviors or signs, the Twitterstream is an endless flow of humanity.  From time to time, I’ll be posting anonymously some of the more interesting Berkeley-related tweets I run across.

Overheard in the Twitterstream:

Walked 2 blocks and saw guy playing mandolin, 4 people kissing and given a free cookie. Jesus Berkeley, can’t you at least fake some angst?

UC Berkeley seems to finally have realized that I’m an alum. Eight years after I dropped out, they’ve sent me their first appeal for money.

Almost in berkeley, I shall take up residence in a tree.

Oh, Berkeley Bowl, how I love thee.She quickly turns on her heels and hustles off in the way only eccentric Berkeley hippies can.

Back in Berkeley means never being sure if the person on the side of the street is talking to you or to themself

Berkeley students are so eager and earnest. i think i used to be like this until real life squashed it all out of me.

Cabin fever. Heading to Berkeley. Maybe some speck of greatness will rub off on me.

I may have overdid it at the Farmer’s Market & Berkeley Bowl today but I was just so happy to be reunited w.good produce.

Bent my ankle on a pedestrian pothole in Berkeley. It’s my punishment for being a very bad man.

Reading the Omnivore’s Dilemma makes me want to be a farmer. Instead I’ll just go to Berkeley Bowl and cook all my meals.

Just finished shooting a story in Berkeley…a man kept interrupting the shoot to tell me his dog was moving back to town

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