GigaOM: With Twitter, a Desperate Need for Context
Saturday, 29 November 2008, 09:01
Om Malik: "[E]very time there is an unfortunate tragedy — be it a raging fire or a terrorist attack – we geta torrent of stories heralding the legitimacy of Twitter as a news source. … The question, however, then becomes: How does one make sense of the torrent of information that comes with this immediate media? …"
JP Digital Digest: Press Gazette Live Blogs SoE Summit
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 18:11
…and as I told the guilty parties privately, their use of Twiitter and CoverItLive was brilliant.
The Economist: Blogging grows up
Saturday, 8 November 2008, 10:17
"Blogging has entered the mainstream, which—as with every new medium in history—looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death."
PRBlogger.com: UK journalists on Twitter
Friday, 7 November 2008, 14:52
A nice list, just like the title says.
PRNewswire: Reporters Getting Burned Out With New Technology, Journalists Tell National Press Club Forum at University of Missouri
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 07:53
"I have been blogging for years," said Tony Messenger, a state capital bureau correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I have yet to have a discussion in my newsroom about why we're blogging and to tie that somehow into the newspaper's business model."
Chicago Tribune: Blogger gets off ground with 787
Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 22:07
"Blogger Jon Ostrower started out with little more than a battered Dell laptop and a goal of detailing the creation of a groundbreaking airplane, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Ostrower had neither aerospace nor journalism training. But in little more than 18 months, the 24-year-old has significantly altered how aerospace is covered, a world in which work is cloaked in secrecy."
Online Journalism Blog: They’re not “geeks” - they’re early adopters
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 00:06
Paul Bradshaw: "Five years ago people who downloaded mp3s were seen as geeky. Now it’s a mainstream activity, and expected to make up the majority of record sales within a further five years. Twitter has only been going for two years; YouTube is 3 years old and Flickr 4. MySpace is 5. blogging services like Blogger.com are still not even a decade old. Do I need to labour the point?"
Nashville is Talking: Nashville area consumers use Twitter to find gas
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 08:17
"Nashville area consumers are using Twitter to find gas during the gas shortage affecting the area. Consumers are also posting geo-tagged tweets for precise locations…"
BBC News: dot.life: Twitter, Qik, Flip - how to cover news?
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 08:02
Rory Cellan-Jones shows how he used Twitter, Qik and Flip to cover an Apple event: "A mobile phone with an instant video application can get you out of a hole when there's no alternative. But I'd be reluctant to go anywhere without the services of a professional, wielding a decent video camera. As I think you'll agree if you look at my pictures."
TweetSMS
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 14:57
"As of Thursday 14th August 2008, Twitter is no longer sending out-going SMS customers to the thousands of international twitter users! … tweetSMS is here to bridge that gap."
10,000 Words: 12 Things to tell your tech-impaired editor
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 08:34
My personal favourites: "If you're going to triple my workload, you're eventually going to have to pay me more" and "The web is not a dumping ground for stories."
10,000 Words: 12 Things to tell your tech-impaired editor
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 08:34
My personal favourites: "If you're going to triple my workload, you're eventually going to have to pay me more" and "The web is not a dumping ground for stories."
MediaShift Idea Lab: Is Twitter the Newsroom of the Future?
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 07:43
Chris O'Brien's thoughts on how the story of the LA earthquake spread on Twitter, and what it means for news.
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 14:40
Comments
John Dickerson: "We can all agree that journalism shouldn’t get any smaller, but Twitter doesn’t threaten the traditions of our craft. It adds, rather than subtracts, from what we do."
