Tag: social media
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It’s high time to send our pigeons out into the diaspora
Jeremy Wagstaff on the outdated definition of ‘news’: “We journalists have been schooled in a kind of journalism that goes back to the days when a German called Paul Julius Reuter was delivering it by pigeon. His problem was a simple one: getting new information quickly from A to B. It could be stock prices;…
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Newsvine and news as a social object – Strange Attractor
Kevin’s notes on Newsvine, especially the bits about making it clear to the user what exactly they’re supposed to Do (capital D)… Define your verbs, indeed. Newsvine and news as a social object – Strange Attractor
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Try this sociology experiment – Small Initiatives
Jay Small notes that no one stands around the candy machines talking about a great story they “read” – they talk about a great headline (or TV sound bite) they “saw.” “Did you see?” vs. “Did you read?” Try this sociology experiment – Small Initiatives
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Top Local News Links and Bookmarks on reddit.oregonlive.com
Via Jarvis comes this – a reddit install on a local news site. This is awesome. I’ve been preaching this for a while now. We could all be doing this sort of thing with a Pligg install and good templating to tie it into the main site. Top Local News Links and Bookmarks on reddit.oregonlive.com
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By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 – Guy Kawasaki
Guy, his usual approachable, clear, concise, logical self, with good news for development departments at newspapers looking for low-budget solutions to social media challenges. By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 – Guy Kawasaki
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Mike Davidson: Newsvine Relaunches… Announcing Evergreen
Newsvine gets cooler – being able to get rid of some modules on the homepage and simplify things a bit might make me want to use it. Mike Davidson: Newsvine Relaunches… Announcing Evergreen
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Flickring the News
Another hypothetical news page, this one remixing Flickr’s social media architecture in the context of a news story. Well, yes, of course. I could do without the Flickr-iffic design. Let’s take the functionality and move on. Flickring the News
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Provide your readers with somewhere to talk about the news — before someone else does
Topix.net becomes a dot-com, re-aligns to spotlight human editors in geographical and, um, topical communities. As with Digg or Fark or any other news aggregator that allows readers to comment on the stories (from your newspaper) people post to them, the conversation that belongs with the story on your own site, with your branding at…
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I dreamt I was in a social media class…
…and the textbook was the Henry Jenkins book which has been sitting relatively uncracked on my bedside shelf for a couple months now. Does that mean I’m supposed to read it, or that the Mass Communications program at school should have a social media class? Luckily, I don’t have time to think about that. I…