Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I love the Web. I just found out about bitchmeme, a great term to describe what happens on the weekends when there isn't much news happening. Bloggers (or as we called them at Technology Review, the nutters) come out in force to discuss issues that bother them.
Or in this case, ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I worked on a story yesterday for Ecommerce Times about Gawker Media selling off three of its properties. In the course of reporting the story, I talked to an author who researched trends in media. His take: people are moving from a personality-centric news source to an aggregation service that ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
A couple things have happened since last week which got me thinking about modern journalism from a public relations perspective. The first was a conversation I had with one of the PR teachers at Northern Kentucky University about Google Earth. The second was a Twitter contest my old boss Jason ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I've been off for a few days, traveling to San Francisco for the book. While I was there, I had the opportunity to meet with Howard Rheingold, who is currently lecturing on technology and journalism at both Stanford and Berkeley. We had a rather illuminating talk.
He's working on a project ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
As the Twitter application continues to gain traction with the digerati, there are scads of new apps meant to help users track their use and connections. Social networks, after all, aren't very useful if you can't track what your friends are doing -- and how important you are in ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The fine folks at Ball State University, who frankly do some of the best research in new media (I did a fellowship there last year), came out with a study that found newspaper blogs are -- by and large -- a waste. The reason: inconsistent posts and a lack ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I'll be honest, I nearly had a heart attack when I first opened up this article; however, I continually tell people to RTFA before commenting, so I thought I'd read the article before commenting.
The piece is about a journalist discovered that by aggregating links together with a narrative around it, ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The wonderful folks at Ars get a double-dip today. My friend Chris forwarded me this response to Eric Alterman's piece in the New Yorker (which I discussed earlier.)
The response comes in reference to Alterman's view that while social media allows for greater communication, first-rate journalism is -- or will -- ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The listserv continues to add members, but right now most of the discussion seems to be Dave Thomas and I sharing some of the tools we find interesting. His email today was so spot on, I thought I'd report it here. What follows is all him: Right now I ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Well, I took a day off to attend the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day (loss) Celebration. Now we're back to news about journalism. A VC firm has funded a news aggregation service for journalists. The company, Publish2, is the latest in a series of human-search oriented websites that remove technology ...
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