Nieman Journalism Lab: The right information, the right way, at the right time
Monday, 1 March 2010, 17:12
"At 5:30 a.m., I got a text message from one of my local television stations alerting me that my kids’ school was closed because of an impending snowstorm. This was a valuable bit of information. …. This TV station gave me the specific information I wanted the way I wanted it and when I wanted it. …"
Media Guardian: Economist launches single copy subscription service
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 23:18
"The Economist has launched a single copy subscription service that allows readers to order just one copy of the magazine for home delivery the next day. .. online or via text message … The magazine eventually aims to make the service available via Facebook and Twitter."
Recovering Journalist: Is The iPhone The New Newspaper?
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 10:11
Mark Potts: "Forget print being antiquated; newspaper sites are essentially prehistoric as well. And newspapers aren't doing nearly enough with alternate forms of distribution, like e-mail, RSS, SMS messages to cellphones, etc."
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."
BBC News: Italians dial up best food price
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 22:44
"[A] text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy."
BBC News: Italians dial up best food price
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 22:44
"[A] text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy."
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 10:27
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Channel 4’s Dispatches reported that it costs approximately £8.85 per megabyte to transmit data from Hubble Space Telescope to Earth. A 140-byte text message costing 5p comes to £374.49 per MB.
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 13:32
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"Courts, lawyers and states are increasingly treating … text messages [sent by public officials] as public documents subject to the same disclosure laws — including the federal Freedom of Information Act — that apply to e-mails and paper records." (
Friday, 25 January 2008, 18:17
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The New York Times announced today a text messaging service that will deliver the latest news, features and columns from the newspaper as well as features from The Times Magazine to cell phones and mobile devices.
Friday, 25 January 2008, 18:17
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The New York Times announced today a text messaging service that will deliver the latest news, features and columns from the newspaper as well as features from The Times Magazine to cell phones and mobile devices.
Monday, 23 April 2007, 17:29
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"Facebook released improvements to its Status Updates feature over the weekend, including SMS support and other Twitter-like features."
CNN breaking news mashup on Twitter
Tuesday, 2 January 2007, 18:17
Josh Bancroft has noticed that there is a user on Twitter with the username CNN Breaking News.
It certainly looks like the news channel someone is experimenting with using the mobile social networking tool to break news headlines.
Twitter is certainly a clever technology combining blogging, text messaging and social networking. The site allows users to post 160-character posts that can be delivered to their network of friends and assorted online stalkers via SMS or AOL Instant Messenger.
It can be a fun way to keep in touch with many friends simultaniously. Over the holiday period, my phone was bombarded by Twitters sent by food blogger Graham Holliday detailing his gluttony over the holidays, 160 characters at a time.
So far, that’s how I have been using it — as a toy. But CNN’s this experiment suggests that it has potential as a platform for more serious applications for journalists like delivering news and obtaining instant feedback from readers’ mobile phones.
I may eventually work out how to use Twitter to deliver short news items. For now, you can subscribe to my feed of odd random text messages from me by adding me as a friend on Twitter.
Update: In the comments, Bobbie Johnson points out that we may be dealing with a mashup of sorts. Credit is apparently owed to James Cox, and not anybody in Atlanta. It’s a great idea whoever is doing it — I hope more useful applications like this will be created for Twitter.
Update2: Cox explains his mashup elsewhere.
