Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About twitter

What’s this new Twitter thing I keep hearing about?

December 28, 2007 – 6:02 pm

It’s the Friday between Christmas and New Year’s in newsrooms all over the world, and apparently, everyone’s reading Romenesko, clicking through on the link to a post by Howard Owens (full disclosure, y’all: he’s my boss), and jamming on his link tagging me as a Twit-vangelist.
So, here are a few places to start if you [...]

The difference between Facebook friends and Twitter friends

December 14, 2007 – 6:34 am

I’ll add you as a Facebook friend just because we went to elementary school together, even if we don’t really have anything to talk about anymore.
I’ll add you as a Twitter friend just because we have something to talk about, even if I have no idea where you went to elementary school.

Twitter hints for reporters

December 13, 2007 – 8:20 pm

I saw a message on Twitter from Dave Cohn yesterday late in the afternoon that said he was set to interview Craig Newmark in 30 minutes. (Actually, I saw it 19 minutes after he posted it, so he was probably on the way out the door if not on the street when I replied.)
Today, Dave [...]

Twitter take-up Tuesday brought me Clarence

December 11, 2007 – 8:27 pm

I’m not going to go into much detail or analysis of what happened to Twitter today, other to point out that this blog post by Jeremiah Owyang started it and became a hub for at least 300 people to connect to each other, and thus to each other’s networks.
“Quite simply, my whole hustle is that,
‘I [...]

Notes on breaking news

November 25, 2007 – 5:59 pm

Last June in the most popular post ever on this blog, I said this:
“You ignore new delivery systems at your own peril. RSS, SMS, iPhone, e-paper, Blackberry, widgets, podcasts, vlogs, Facebook, Twitter — these aren’t the competition, these are your new carriers. Learn how to deliver your content across every new technology that comes into [...]