all-things-d
Facebook CEO 'Visibly Uncomfortable' When Asked About Privacy
Max Read · 06/03/10 12:53AMConference Comeback for Steve Jobs?
Ryan Tate · 04/27/10 12:36PMFacebook Heckling Rampage By Kara Swisher
Ryan Tate · 06/16/09 10:36AMArianna Huffington Discovers 'Weird Porn' on the Internet
Ryan Tate · 05/29/09 02:28PMYahoo CEO Smacks Down Second Reporter
Ryan Tate · 05/28/09 01:30PMCarol Bartz's Elusive New F-Bomb
Ryan Tate · 05/27/09 07:10PMWSJ Conference Opens with a Serenade to Rupert Murdoch
Ryan Tate · 05/27/09 12:29PMTwitter Founders' Down Market Favorites
Ryan Tate · 05/26/09 04:47PMThe WSJ's Twitterati Break All the Rules
Owen Thomas · 05/13/09 05:12PMNew York Times Editor Joins Ranks of the Twitterati
Owen Thomas · 05/05/09 04:31PMOutrage: WSJ In Blog Duplicity Scandal
Ryan Tate · 04/09/09 04:59AMSarah Palin Lets the Twitterati Sleep in the Same Room
Owen Thomas · 04/03/09 04:21PMThe Twitterati Will Have Painkillers, Two CDs, and a Martini
Owen Thomas · 03/25/09 05:40PMCheating Media Moguls Across the Twittersphere
Owen Thomas · 02/25/09 05:36PMWSJ Conference Organizer's Wife Secretly Running Google
Owen Thomas · 02/24/09 01:37AMKara Swisher discloses she married Google exec
Owen Thomas · 11/05/08 03:40PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m7zmgdlwqyfjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
A disclosure statement is an odd place for a wedding announcement. But that is where conference organizer and AllThingsD blogger Kara Swisher has buried the news that she married her longtime partner, Google vice president Megan Smith, last night, before the passage of Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, made same-sex marriages illegal once more. (The couple had had previous ceremonies — including, while we're disclosing things, one that I attended — but this was the first one that was a legal marriage under California law.) This would be no one's business but their own, except for the fact that Swisher actively covers Google and its rivals.
Kara Swisher, obnoxious AllThingsD blogger
Owen Thomas · 10/30/08 08:00PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m81eottsywyjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
How to wear it: Soccer mom meets Castro lesbian, with a denim shirt and blue jeans. Oh, and a Pure Digital Flip camera. How to scare them: Find a tech-company executive. Insist on interviewing them. Blurt out the most annoying questions you can think of. If they flinch, threaten to disinvite them from your exclusive Wall Street Journal tech conference.
Kara Swisher's hiring criteria revealed
Owen Thomas · 10/27/08 05:20PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m82mjajnop8jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Eyebrows cocked? Smirk at the ready? Then you, sir, are qualified to tack on wry analysis to the day's news at AllThingsD.com. Good thing Peter Kafka, Kara Swisher's latest hire at the Dow Jones-backed tech blog, is a continent away from John Paczkowski, Swisher's incumbent snark machine. Put the two in the same office, and they might just spend all day raising their eyebrows at each other.
Lazy reporter crowdsources new column
Paul Boutin · 10/27/08 12:20PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m82skc3bgh6jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Peter Kafka is Kara Swisher's latest star hire at AllThingsD. She stole him from Silicon Alley Insider, where he worked with Henry Blodget. At SAI, Kafka always seemed to do fine without invoking the wisdom of the crowd. Why is Kara pushing him to go on and on about nothing? His first post was the standard Web 2.0 "Hello, world." His second takes 400 words to restate its own headline. Peter, here's my first and last free rewrite. Give me credit for not saying "Kafka-esque."