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Friday, November 30, 2012

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@The_GambitLIVE: Our new Twitter feed for meetings and debates

Posted by on Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:07 PM

Ta-da.
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For a while now, our Twitter followers have been split — some like our livetweeting of things like public meetings and candidate debates, while others really, really don't.

So we're splitting our editorial Twitter feed* in half.

@The_Gambit will continue to bring breaking news, links to stories and general workday goofing around, but when we're covering City Council or a public meeting, you'll find that stream at @The_GambitLIVE.

@The_GambitLIVE will be quiet most of the time, but when a meeting is going on, you'll find all the wonky action there:

Hot budget excitement on @The_GambitLIVE!
  • Hot budget excitement on @The_GambitLIVE!

So, if you're inclined, subscribe to both. And for those of you who really didn't want play-by-play of things like budget hearings: you're welcome.

* You can also subscribe to our giveaway and schwag Twitter feed, @GambitGoods, which is run by our marketing department. Its contests are easier to win than the Powerball, and we give away everything from movie tickets to $1,000 bar tabs.

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Monday, November 26, 2012

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Y@ Speak: Thanksgiving leftovers

Posted by on Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM


We're back to the real world, which is sadly filled with food that isn't casseroles and pie and people who aren't giant inflatable cartoon characters or Rockettes. Ease on back into the working week with tweets about Black Friday, mass texts, how shitty our airport is, Bobby Jindal 2.0 and more. Plus, some lagniappe tweets from last week that I saved during Y@ Speak's first birthday celebration.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Food & Drink / Music & Nightlife / News & Politics / New Orleans Life / Jazz Fest / Pelicans/Hornets / Saints / Events & Festivals / A&E / David Vitter / Bobby Jindal / Ray Nagin / Barack Obama / Facebook/Twitter/Social Media / Newspapers / Internet & Technology / Crime / Celebrity Watch / Elections / Quote/Unquote / Oh No You Didn't / Hollywood South / WTF?

Happy Birthday, Y@ Speak!

Posted by on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:18 AM

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Y@ Speak, in which we capture notable 140-character bon mots, newsworthy items, gaffes by Saints players and local politicians and whatever else pops up on the New Orleans Twittersphere. To celebrate this occasion, I've rounded up some of my favorite or most memorable tweets — like a multi-layered digital birthday cake of sorts — and divided them by categories: we got NFL players saying dumb stuff, #neworleansproblems, anguish over the Saints' challenging year, reactions to the Times-Picayune cutbacks, interesting celebrity encounters, deep thoughts from Ray Nagin and so much more. Get your retweet/favorite fingers ready for this massive retrospective.

NFL Players Say the Darndest Things






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Monday, November 12, 2012

News & Politics / Week in Review / Sports / New Orleans Life / Saints / Barack Obama / Facebook/Twitter/Social Media / Internet & Technology / Elections

Y@ Speak: Election edition

Posted by on Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM


Between watching football and watching more football, this week we managed to elect a new president and make other important decisions! Good job, guys. If the election didn't go your way, you likely were comforted by the Saints' two wins. That the Saints are a good football team sometimes is something on which we can all agree.

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Monday, November 5, 2012

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Y@ Speak: Tricks and treats

Posted by on Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM


This Halloween week, New Orleans Twitter was treated to a variety of treats: amusing dispatches from trick-or-treating and the Frenchmen Street experience, deep thoughts from Norman Robinson, and an apparently drunk or really, really excited person on Bobby Jindal's Twitter feed Friday night. But is someone playing a trick on us with this Sean Payton news? Also this week: Hurricane Sandy tweets, Steve Gleason's mohawk, and people get worked up about LSU/Bama game.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

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Y@ Speak: Voodoo prize bunnies, Saints defense and other misfortunes

Posted by on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:57 AM


As our friends in the Northeast began their hunkering down with the onset of Hurricane Sandy, this week we watched the final presidential debates, struggled with what to do with the bunnies we won at the Voodoo Experience, and watched the Saints lose pitifully.

Also, a message from Y@ Speak: I mined the various Voodoo hashtags for roundup-worthy tweets, which is like looking for an earring in a giant Dumpster. One thing I kept seeing were really horrible Instagram shots from Voodoo sets: a faraway shot of a blue light ("Neil Young!"), a stage obscured by hundreds of waving arms ("Skrillex!"), a pixellated zoomed-in shot of Jack White bathed in a filter that makes him look like an X-ray. Friends, it's really hard to get decent shots of bands at music festivals/concerts in general (although it's certainly possible), so instead of worrying about that, maybe just enjoy the show? People will believe that you are a human with friends who goes out and does things without your Instagram documentation of it.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

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Y@ Speak: Binders full of tweets

Posted by on Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:56 AM


You want tweets? I got binders full of 'em. Tweets about the second presidential debate, the Tulane University shooter that actually never existed, the fire in Treme and the Saints' win. Also in the tweets this week, things to avoid: the new Chipotle in Elmwood (at least for a few weeks), Magazine Street today and Curren$y, if you see him in baggage claim.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Health & Wellness / Music & Nightlife / News & Politics / Week in Review / Voodoo Fest / New Orleans Life / Pelicans/Hornets / Facebook/Twitter/Social Media / Internet & Technology

Y@ Speak: The boil-your-water bye week

Posted by on Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM


New Orleans residents say we live in the Third World while using Twitter to complain about the boil water advisory issued last week (hey, the Saints didn't play this week, so I guess everyone needed something to yell about). Also this week: it's Biden versus Ryan in the veep debate, changes in the Voodoo Experience lineup, and a dude skydives from space.

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Monday, October 8, 2012

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Y@ Speak: Debates, Drew Brees and dolls

Posted by on Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM


This week we had the first presidential debate and all the zingers and hastily created parody accounts that come with it (just imagine how Twitter will be Nov. 4. I think it might explode?). Also, the Saints finally gave us a win, perhaps due to the help of Angela Hill's magical Saints Oracle Dolls (pictured above). We're not judging: Gambit also subscribes to the mystic power of treasured inanimate objects.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Music & Nightlife / Week in Review / Sports / New Orleans Life / Saints / The Media's Lovely Corpse / A&E / Media / The Times-Picayune / Facebook/Twitter/Social Media / Internet & Technology / Celebrity Watch / Reality TV / Hollywood South

Y@ Speak: Bye, Times-Picayune

Posted by on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:23 AM


This weekend we said goodbye to the the daily Times-Picayune and our favorite reporters who worked there. That loss dovetailed with another loss, that by the Saints, so what a dumb weekend. Also this week: Louisiana people on The Voice, the Fiona Apple show, replacement refs, and people have opinions about Treme.

(Also, sorry for the delay. Your tweet forager was a bit under the weather yesterday.)

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