Rachel Sklar
Rachel Sklar
Rachel Sklaris a Canadian lawyer, CNN contributor, and media blogger...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth8 December 1972
CountryCanada
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.