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With half of my Twitter friends in the political sphere and the other half involved with art, watching my feed during last night’s debate yielded an entertaining mash-up of both. One, from Washington, D.C.–based art journalist Tyler Green, referenced a contemporary art darling (who happens to be Mr. Björk): “It occurs to me that Matthew Barney was on the vanguard of incoherence as a strategy. Palin’s just following in his footsteps.”

So in the spirit of absurdity and art, a less-than-political rundown of odd takes on proceedings.

Kudos to the Star Tribune for sending out “tweets” of its headlines using the microblogging tool Twitter, as it appears to be one of the industry’s earlier adopters of the technology. But Erica Smith of GraphicDesignr wonders if it uses it too much. In her tracking of newspaper sites using the microblogging tool, she writes, [...]