He calls the pre-weekend postings "chalk talk": newsy provocations for his neighbors to discuss.
If one half of a couple is not interested in broadcasting the details of a botched dinner or romantic weekend, Facebook postings or tweets can create irritation, embarrassment, miscommunication and bruised egos.
Liberty guard Cappie Pondexter apologized for Twitter postings over the weekend about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The clash between old-media law and new-media reality soon descended into a chaotic farce, with Mr. Giggs's name appearing in some 75,000 postings over the weekend, even as British news organizations were still legally forbidden to print it.
Over the holiday weekend, a number of people whose postings land in my RSS feed were batting around this piece at rc3.org, which listed the various... let's say "indignities"... that innocent people have been subjected to in the name of fighting terrorism.
But a worried snooker fan contacted me over the weekend to point out a very interesting set of postings by Nick Harris, an experienced sportswriter and investigative journalist who has written for The Independent and the Sunday Times, on his sportingintelligence website.
Dotting the byways of the rolling green countryside here in Carroll County, near the Pennsylvania border, Mrs. Price, 37, soon began noticing postings by gun clubs and enthusiasts for frequent weekend shooting contests.
Neither company knew about the postings, which drove the stock price from around a dime to $8 over the weekend, and eventually to around $15 on Monday afternoon, by which time the alumni had gleefully sold out.
Even in its second weekend, with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram already sagging under the weight of the previous week's #Coachella postings (and, more likely than not a ton of Tinder hookups too), the fest is still a vibe, the celebration of an ideal, not just for schmucks who couldn't land tickets to Weekend 1.
His postings included Colombia and Spain.
