Search Engine Land: Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trumps Google For News & Can’t We Measure Twitter Correctly?
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 11:10
Danny Sullivan: "Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ."
CNN: 27% of Twitter users are active – is it becoming news feed?
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 16:54
"73% of Twitter accounts have tweeted fewer than 10 times according to a new report from Barracuda Networks, a Web security company."
CNet: Has business press lost touch with the tech industry?
Sunday, 7 March 2010, 18:30
"A new report from ITDatase that examines tech coverage over the last six months from eight top business news publications … shows that Apple and Google dominate, while Twitter and Facebook are far more discussed in the business press than Intel, Dell, IBM, or even HP (the largest tech company in the world). … Enterprise IT is woefully underrepresented, despite being the cash-cow in the industry."
Channel 4 News: Twitter hack hits cabinet and bank
Friday, 26 February 2010, 17:25
"The Twitter accounts of two cabinet ministers, an online bank and the press complaints commission are among those falling victim to a hack promoting sex aids."
ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Could Become World’s Leading News Reader (Sorry Google)
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 09:04
"Services like MyYahoo and iGoogle saw some traction and many readers here may have a Google Reader account, but dedicated RSS (really simple syndication) feed reading services have never lived up to their potential to become a mainstream phenomenon. These days many people say they just wait until links get shared on Twitter and they never use a feed reader at all. Late last week Facebook threw its hat in the ring and called on users to use its service as a news feed reader."
ClickZ: TweetDeck Launches ‘JobDeck,’ Teaming Up with Twitter Job Search Engine
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:28
"TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based real-time job search engine, has partnered with TweetDeck to launch a dedicated desktop client dubbed JobDeck. The application uses the same technology as the TwitJobSearch site, indexing recruitment related tweets from across the Twittersphere."
Chronicle of Higher Education: Extra! News Blogs by Students Grab Eyeballs
Saturday, 16 January 2010, 16:37
"Onward State is part of a national wave of student-run Web outfits determined to reinvent college journalism. … n general, they only get together like this once a week. … Onward State is a virtual organization whose members do much of their business digitally. Even gathered within feet of one another in the lab, staff members continued to scroll through the tiny profile pictures of the various social networks open on their computers. … Google Wave … is their version of hollering across a newsroom. They use it to run the editorial operation."
PBS MediaShift: How WSJ Uses Social Media from Behind a Pay Wall
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 08:32
"Though it can't promote and share the content created and then locked down on its website, the paper has worked to incorporate social media. Last year, [WSJ deputy managing editor Alan Murray] interviewed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a 'Digg Dialogg.' Geithner answered questions submitted and voted on by Digg users. "
CJR: “New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 08:29
"'New' media platforms were critical to delivering early information about damage and relief efforts in the aftermath of a 7.0 earthquake that rocked the small island nation of Haiti shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday."
NetNative: Haiti 2.0: A case study in real time news
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 08:00
How Sky News gathered information from Haiti via Twitter, Facebook and Skype.
Journalism.co.uk: New tools for Sky journalists as social media strategy moves from one to many
Saturday, 9 January 2010, 11:49
"Sky News is installing [Tweetdeck] Twitter software across its journalists' computers, as part of plans to encourage more use of social media for newsgathering and reporting."
msnbc.com: Msnbc.com acquires ‘Breakingnews.com’
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 17:41
"The digital network that includes msnbc.com on Tuesday announced the acquisition of the BreakingNews.com Web address, with the aim of creating a Web site to complement its @BreakingNews alert service on Twitter."
Mashable: 10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 10:21
"A look at several trends in content distribution and presentation that we will likely see more of in 2010. … 1. Living Stories … 2. Real-Time News Streams … 3. Blogozines … 4. Distributed Social News … 5. News Goes Mobile … 6. The Year of Geo-Location … 7. Story-Streaming … 8. Social TV Online … 9. Marketers as Producers … 10. Social News Gaming."
FT.com: Economist eyes social network cash boost
Monday, 21 December 2009, 07:54
"The Economist newspaper plans to acquire 500,000 fans on Facebook and 750,000 followers on Twitter within six months … Readers of The Economist’s website will soon be able to log in and make comments using their Facebook identity, through Facebook Connect. … The Economist’s discussion forums will remain free. “People aren’t accustomed to being charged for conversation,” [Economist publisher Ben Edwards] said."
