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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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 ...

Read the full article »

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