ONA12
Emily Bell interviewing Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was one of the highlights of ONA12 – and the session also revealed some good news in store. Twitter is working to create better event curation tools for journalists; Costolo promised we will be able to download all our tweets within the end of
Blogging
Wow, this one hit me. Paul Carr's The Rise of Microblogging, The Death of Posterity is really thoughtprovoking, worth reading and reflecting on. I found this post via a tweet from Loic LeMeur who said he totally disagrees, but even though I often find myself disagreeing with Carr
Blogging
Are you a journalist 24/7? Does the company you work for own you? Does it harm your credibility as a journalist if you share personal opinions online? Are some opinions more appropriate to share than others? These are just some of many questions raised by the recent debates on
Blogging
Evidence suggests navigating the social web can be a bit of challenge for journalists, but does that mean we need a new set of ethical guidelines to safeguard their conduct? Last week, while organising a debate on whether we need rules for journalists’ use of social media, I asked friends,
Recent events has had me pondering if Twitter is not far superior to Facebook when it comes to mobilising people to actually take action and do something in the real world. It was fascinating to hear Suw Charman-Anderson attribute much of the success of the Ada Lovelace campaign she ran
Current Affairs
What's happening in Iran now tells us something important about Twitter as a news source and as a tool to help people self-organise, but why are mainstream commentators still struggling to get their heads around it? My Twitter-feed is abuzz with people tweeting about and linking to stories
Blogging
Jodi Williams from the Obama Campaign Team was in Oslo last week to talk about lessons learnt from the 2008 presidential campaign. Here's a few quick highlights I took away from her talk (I'd have posted this sooner if it wasn't for ongoing computer
Blogging
Here's a golden chance to get two hours of consulting services from social media veterans Adriana Lukas and Chris Heuer for a bargain. Adriana emails to say they are currently auctioning two hours of their time on eBay. I'm a bit late to this story as
Blogging
Here's something which, despite all the current doom and gloom, makes me both hopeful for the future of the world at large and despondent about my own industry (and if you'd rather focus on the former, feel free to jump past my chronology of frustration:-)
With Twitter's recent surge in popularity, I've been half expecting to see a corresponding surge in Twitter journalism akin to what happened when Facebook first grew popular. However, I've yet to spot any juicy Twitter conspiracy theories spread all over the fronpages of mainstream
This is just so sad, sad as in pathetic if you were in doubt about in which way (via Paul Bradshaw on Twitter). It's "just the latest in a series of games played by people who see you and me as numbers, notches in the social media
BusinessModel
Here's a Twanalysis that was bound to appear sooner or later, but one that I nonethesame found both timely and amusing: "What does it mean when hundreds of third party services (with questionable, if any, business models) are dependent upon a single service which itself has no