Any discussion about last week's Fort Hood massacre must inevitably begin with a blanket condemnation of the shootings and conveyance of sympathies for the victims and their loved ones. And so let me do so: the shootings at Fort Hood were unimaginably terrible, and my heart goes out, as do the hearts of millions, to the victims and their families and friends.

That's more than TechCrunch blogger Paul Carr was able to say in his blog post about Twitter and the Fort Hood shootings - he started off his post on the topic by discussing how smug he was about how the Fort Hood...