RACHEL SKLAR

Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.

I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!

I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.

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.

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

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.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.

Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.

I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.

Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.