Geekdom

The LA Weekly's app is pretty neat. No news. Just listings of events and restaurants. Generally helpful if you're the kind of person who does stuff.

You can download it for free at the app store. Always a plus. Not like the dim two buck CNN app.

Of course, if we were building an LA Weekly iPhone app, it would be much much different. It'd be a map with honing dots where ever Patrick Range McDonald or Jonathon Gold were hanging out. We are super lazy stalkers. Plus we'd want a constantly updated emoticon for the mood of editor Drex Heikes. "I feel like pitching a series of articles about the plight of parking enforcement hybrids, I'll just check to see if Heikes isn't already bored."

Is there an app for that?

Previously on FBLA: FBLA Goes Fanboy on Jonathan Gold

From their release:

The Associated Press announced that a 2009 AP Stylebook app is now available on the App Store. The app lets writers and editors easily take the Stylebook with them on their iPhone or iPod touch wherever they go.

"AP Stylebook fans have been asking for a mobile application so they can have style guidance wherever they go," said Colleen Newvine, who manages the AP Stylebook product group. "Journalists never know when they will need to run out the door to chase a story, so as long as they have an iPhone in their pockets when they go, the Stylebook can go with them."

Okay, that is totally awesome. Now if you have a job where they would pay for it - even better.

Via Romenesko

Previously on FBLA:

Mashable posted 10 of the "best" Twitter parody videos. Shudder.

This was our favorite.

Yes, this is the first one of two in as many months. Great big conferences in LA about a little thing called Twitter.

Tomorrow is the kick off for two days of twitterific tweetdom. Speakers include Biz Stone, Gavin Newsom, Tony Hawk, Tony Robbins, Jaime Kennedy and Tears for Fears' Curt Smith.

Yes, Twitter can make an excuse for all these people to get together. It's magic.

Here's the link for all the info and how to attend. It's at the Skirball Center. Which is like...far. Like way past Crescent Heights.

Previously on FBLA:

This is Kseniya Simonova, the 2009 winner of Ukraine's Got Talent.

Yeah, we're going to need a moment...

Thanks to Andrew Malcolm at Top of the Ticket

We met Craig Gaines at the LA Weekly cocktail party over the weekend. Gaines writes a blog about grammar called The Writing Guide. Gaines is not as nearly as embarrassed about this as he should be. Not that he's not embarrassed by it, just not as much as he should be.

His site is a grammar geek's delight. Topics range from improperly capitalizing nouns to prepositions to punctuation. You know, but interesting.

Watch out Strunk and White!

We are here in Pittsburgh, PA covering Netroots Nation. Former President Bill Clinton will be the kick off speaker tonight and we can't stop from making "Gap dress" jokes. We can't help it.

Make sure to check back for all the hot blogger/flack/geek action all weekend long!

Yawn.

Apparently Twitter was down. There was world-wide distress as people or "ppl" had to troll longer forms of inane chatter. Really, really horrible.

Our sister blog BayNewser points to this 2003 Onion headline:

Full disclosure: It took us three times longer to do this post because Twitter is back and we had to chase the dragon a couple of times. Just sayin'.

This is Jordan Peele doing his Barack Obama bit while taking on the birthers and other conspiracy nuts. Owen Burke wrote this very geeky short. Hilarious.

Ashton Kutcher was a speaker at Fortune Magazine's Brainstorm Tech Con last week in Pasadena. Kutcher, @aplusk is currently just shy of three million followers on Twitter, which made the audience and the interviewer Andy Serwer from Fortune, only want to talk about this mysterious new micro phenom (Twitter, not Kutcher, he's very tall).

"I shut down a website everyday because I send too much traffic there from my Twitter feed." The entrepreneur/entertainer told the crowd and his onstage interviewer.

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