Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
Three links about Twitter you should see if you haven’t yet:
Guy Kawasaki on How to use Twitter as a Twool.
Katherine Boehret writes YASEOT (yet another simple explanation of Twitter), but it’s at the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site, so your editor and publisher will read it this time.
Old Media New Tricks has a brief guide [...]
The moment that launched years of overzealous information consumption, filtering, sharing, and engagement, for me, was seeing Scoble’s feedreader on a screen in 2005. He was subscribed to 1200 feeds.
Since then, he’s shifted his information production and consumption around from stream to stream as necessary to stay at the absolute front of the curve as [...]
The Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now.
This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire that [...]
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a rundown of some of the internal Twitter for Enterprise type services that are out there at the moment, from the Prologue theme for WordPress (free!) to Backpack Journal from 37signals (not free!).
Plus, there’s a bit about the feature inspiration I picked up yesterday at blip.fm.
The evolving list of features [...]
I interviewed Jay Rosen today on IM about his spinewatch project, which encourages journalists, bloggers, and citizens in general to point out moments when the political press on the campaign trail shows evidence of needing to grow one, or of having grown one.
Jay:
“But the rules and assumptions underlying the fact checking regime are vulnerable to [...]