* * UPDATED: corrected from draft which was published. Facts/links/opinions unaltered. * * Alan Patrick's pure class in my book. His blog is prickly, argumentative and pushy in the very ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tag Archive: twitter
Polluting the streams, pruning the networks…
* * UPDATED: corrected from draft which was published. Facts/links/opinions unaltered. * * Alan Patrick's pure class in my book. His blog is prickly, argumentative and pushy in the very ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...