Also known to the world as
@MayorEmanuel
"The Atlantic" picks up the wonderful story here:
Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel
Feb 28 2011,
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For weeks, journalists and insiders have urged the person behind @MayorEmanuel to reveal himself, but he (or she) demurred. Until now. After a protracted email negotiation, the author has outed himself to The Atlantic. He's receiving no compensation.
The genius behind @MayorEmanuel is Dan Sinker, who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.
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Shia Kapos at Crain's has a little more:
The writer who kept Chicago Twitter followers on the edges of their seats during the Chicago mayoral campaign has revealed himself to the Atlantic. He's Dan Sinker, a Columbia College assistant journalism professor and founder of Punk Planet, a zine that ran from 1994 to 2007.
Columbia College. Hehehe. I might have known. If they're not careful they're going to get a reputation as the whelping box for anonymous Chicago online writers :-)
What Mr. Sinker accomplished 140-characters at a time was as beautifully executed a piece of hilariously subversive public performance art as I have seen in a long, long time.
Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding!
Get you a case of beer for that one.
4 comments:
Completely off-topic: Does anybody remember this guy from the final year of Steve Gilliard's News Blog? (Well, not completely off-topic, as there is a similar "funny parody" theme in common.)
And all this time I had thought it was you, Drifty...
No links?
For those of us not "in" the Chicago in circles?
Is Chicago College one of those made-up colleges for those who couldn't even get into State?
And there's no way he wasn't "paid."
S
"Do you want to talk to the person in charge, or the person who knows what's going on?"
The people in charge got their MBAs from U of Chicago. The people who know what's going on went to Columbia College.
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