While the panel explored the disruptive nature of Twitter, it also exposed its weaknesses and opportunities. Scoble compared this disruption to that of CNN's impact on the news industry when it first debuted. All concurred that citizen media was going to

The question is, will this structure allow for the sustained campaigning necessary to overturn the vote? In the language of Gaurav Mishra's 4 C's of Social Media, this campaign has achieved Content creation and Collaboration on collective action, but will

When you review the Twitter stream of the past week, it reads like a stream of constantly shifting consciousness. It is a kind of journalistic pointillism. From a distance it gains heft. It is history rendered in the collective, scattered mind and it has

I've also been arguing that for journalists, saying what you don't know is becoming as important as saying what you know. That is all the more critical as misinformation and rumor can spread at the speed of information online. So I imagine a news organiza

Why is Twitter getting all the attention? For one thing, Twitter has become the social media darling of journalists. Between its utility as an information-gathering tool and the exuberance resulting from celebrities embracing Twitter, it's become a pop cu