I’m grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls:
There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in the for est. Flow is a rate of [...]
Tag Archive: twitter
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
Massively un-orchestrated
The last seven days have been a proud period for Twitter in the UK.
First up, the power of networks blew apart an arguably unconstitutional and malignant “super-injunction” that prevented a newspaper reporting on Parliament.
Next, a community of interest formed around a grim, homophobic column in the Daily Mail about a pop star who had recently [...]
Tweet’s anatomy: Microsoft retweet research (Pls RT)
Frankly I think my spell-checker’s a bit of laggard when it comes to the social web. But, bless it, it’s learning fast at the moment…
Every other word or phrase it thinks I need correct.
“Retweet” is a phrase it will need to learn soon, very soon indeed.
Danah Boyd at her colleagues at Microsoft Research have [...]
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It’s all about learning to see it.
Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I’m going to stick with calling it Twitter literacy. If you have been reading about Twitter for a while I bet you five quid a revolting part of your brain is doing back flips right [...]
Twitter… witter… itter… tter… er.
Image: Beware the Echo… (Credit: Zorilla)
Tom’s an echo-chamber refusenik, which is one of several good reasons I make a point of reading everything he posts on his blog Usable Interfaces. He’s a guard against lazy thinking, re-Tweeted half-thoughts and emergent untested aphorisms.
Take his latest broadside – “Just because you can” – against Twitter noise in [...]
People’s News: social media and newsgathering in 2008
The staff of NowPublic, the “particpatory news network” as it describes itself, has picked a list of the top 10 stories from 2008 in which social media played a role.
2008’s Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News
1. Mumbai attacks
2. Natural disasters: Emergency info
3. SF Olympic torch relay protests
4. Obama and “Bittergate”
5. Protests at [...]
Butching out the credit crunch – with some help from social media
In terms of useful tips and advice, although I’m not a freelance journalist I found Fiona Cullinan’s post Freelancing in a Recession interesting on a couple of counts.
First, she reflects a change in the demands of the market away from her sub-editing skills to a more diverse range of content creation and blog-related editorial.
Second, it was great [...]
Un-filtered news: Twitter, the BBC and Mumbai
Media Guardian carries a timely analysis of some of the discussion of Twitter informing, in some cases becoming part of, the coverage of the terrorist attrocities in Mumbai.
It picks up on a blog post by Steve Herman, editor of the BBC News website:
As for the Twitter messages we were monitoring, most did not add a [...]
Tag Archive: twitter
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
I’m grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls:
There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in the for est. Flow is a rate of [...]
Massively un-orchestrated
The last seven days have been a proud period for Twitter in the UK.
First up, the power of networks blew apart an arguably unconstitutional and malignant “super-injunction” that prevented a newspaper reporting on Parliament.
Next, a community of interest formed around a grim, homophobic column in the Daily Mail about a pop star who had recently [...]
Tweet’s anatomy: Microsoft retweet research (Pls RT)
Frankly I think my spell-checker’s a bit of laggard when it comes to the social web. But, bless it, it’s learning fast at the moment…
Every other word or phrase it thinks I need correct.
“Retweet” is a phrase it will need to learn soon, very soon indeed.
Danah Boyd at her colleagues at Microsoft Research have [...]
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It’s all about learning to see it.
Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I’m going to stick with calling it Twitter literacy. If you have been reading about Twitter for a while I bet you five quid a revolting part of your brain is doing back flips right [...]
Twitter… witter… itter… tter… er.
Image: Beware the Echo… (Credit: Zorilla)
Tom’s an echo-chamber refusenik, which is one of several good reasons I make a point of reading everything he posts on his blog Usable Interfaces. He’s a guard against lazy thinking, re-Tweeted half-thoughts and emergent untested aphorisms.
Take his latest broadside – “Just because you can” – against Twitter noise in [...]
People’s News: social media and newsgathering in 2008
The staff of NowPublic, the “particpatory news network” as it describes itself, has picked a list of the top 10 stories from 2008 in which social media played a role.
2008’s Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News
1. Mumbai attacks
2. Natural disasters: Emergency info
3. SF Olympic torch relay protests
4. Obama and “Bittergate”
5. Protests at [...]
Butching out the credit crunch – with some help from social media
In terms of useful tips and advice, although I’m not a freelance journalist I found Fiona Cullinan’s post Freelancing in a Recession interesting on a couple of counts.
First, she reflects a change in the demands of the market away from her sub-editing skills to a more diverse range of content creation and blog-related editorial.
Second, it was great [...]
Un-filtered news: Twitter, the BBC and Mumbai
Media Guardian carries a timely analysis of some of the discussion of Twitter informing, in some cases becoming part of, the coverage of the terrorist attrocities in Mumbai.
It picks up on a blog post by Steve Herman, editor of the BBC News website:
As for the Twitter messages we were monitoring, most did not add a [...]