I was serving on a grant proposal committee, and I watched as a fellow judge asked his Twitter followers if a certain project had been tried before. In 15 seconds, his followers replied with Web links to the information he needed. No e-mail message, phone call or Web site could have achieved the same effect.
State of the Art - Twitter Is What You Make It - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Twitter, in other words, is precisely what you want it to be. It can be a business tool, a teenage time-killer, a research assistant, a news source — whatever. There are no rules, or at least none that apply equally well to everyone.
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The masses also came up with conventions
'Controlled Serendipity' Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too.
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“In the past, I may have used this time in the day to read newspapers, magazines or books. Now I have just substituted the same time with reading and sharing news online.”
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“controlled serendipity,”
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The Twitter Train Has Left the Station - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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“Twitter is crack for media addicts,” he writes. “It scares me, not because I’m morally superior to it, but because I don’t think I could handle it.” Call me a digital crack dealer, but here’s why Twitter is a vital part of the information economy — and why Mr. Packer and other doubters ought to at least give it a Tweet.
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Most importantly, Twitter is transforming the nature of news, the industry from which Mr. Packer reaps his paycheck. The news media are going through their most robust transformation since the dawn of the printing press, in large part due to the Internet and services like Twitter. After this metamorphosis takes place, everyone will benefit from the information moving swiftly around the globe.
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ordinary Iranians shared information
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Reality pops the Twitter bubble - Crain's New York Business - 1 views
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Two-thirds of small business executives say that using social networking sites hasn't helped them generate business leads or expand their operations, according to a recent survey by Citibank and GfK Roper.That's in part because Twitter isn't intended to be a one-way street. The tweeters who get the most attention are those who engage with others as much as they promote themselves. Entrepreneurs should be wary of coming across as salesmen only.
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“I promote the ‘One in Five Rule.' One time, pitch yourself, and four times, engage your audience.”
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“People feel like they're making a connection with an actual person.”
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FaceChipz: Internet of Things Meets Social Networking - 0 views
Insights From IDEO's Humanizing Social Media Event - PSFK - 0 views
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"an interesting group dynamic that occurs in real life that hasn't been replicated in social media. While you can broadcast messages to your followers, it's still an individual act that is occurring in on your phone or at your desk."
'Digital Nation'-Are MIT Student Attention Spans at Risk? « Slice of MIT by t... - 1 views
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Check out the linked site (90-minute segment of Digital Nation). There is a Roundtable section below the video frame that hosts a conversation about the content, which serves the desire for deep news and analysis.
Web Strategy Matrix: Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter (Feb 2010)... - 0 views
Spinuzzi: About those health care bill town halls - 0 views
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This year's technology is Internet video, which protesters have leveraged to self-report their protests. The Drudge Report had at least four links to such videos yesterday, and Instapundit, which has reported on continuing "tea parties" since they started, has more.
Colombia's investigative journalists launch new website | Journalism in the Americas - 0 views
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Colombia's Newsroom Council (CdR in Spanish), an investigative journalism organization created in 2007 with the Knight Center's assistance, launched the new site this week. CdR's project coordinator, Miriam Forero, says the site's goal is to offer a variety of information about investigative journalism, including expert opinions, debates, publications, documents, and videos, among other resources.
Malaysiakini - 0 views
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Malaysiakini is a subscription based website, where users pay RM 150 per year (US$40) to access the daily content, and RM450 per year (US$120) for access to the nine years of archived content. Malaysiakini is a subscription based website, where users pay RM 150 per year (US$40) to access the daily content, and RM450 per year (US$120) for access to the nine years of archived content.
Home | Investigative Reporting Workshop - 0 views
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The Investigative Reporting Workshop, a project of the School of Communication at American University, addresses this fundamental issue for democracy in two important ways: * By conducting significant investigative journalism projects on a national and international scale. * By researching and experimenting with new models for creating and delivering investigative projects. The Workshop was formally approved by the university in the Spring of 2008 and began publishing original projects in the Spring of 2009.
ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media - 1 views
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ReadWriteWeb provides analysis of Web products and trends to an intelligent audience of engaged technology decision makers, Web enthusiasts and innovators.
Mission Media in 2009: Presenting Ideas, Images, Stories+Solutions « TRANSMED... - 1 views
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A list of initiatives in transmedia activism
Get there by clicking a link and the New York Times paywall disappears - Jay Rosen: Pub... - 1 views
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Criticism of the proposed NYT paywall
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