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[Demain tous journalistes ?] "L'objectif, ici, n'est pas de produire une information low-cost sans journalistes, mais de travailler intelligemment dans le cadre d'une info en réseau. Produire une info plus pertinente par rapport aux attentes des lecteurs: hyper réactive, moins conventionnelle dans ses choix, plus "live", plus libre, avec plus de ton, de conversation, beaucoup d'émotion. Je me souviens du live de la nuit électorale américaine, pendant le discours d'Obama, un posteur a écrit: "je suis en train de pleurer". En relisant le live le lendemain, on avait non seulement une idée de ce qui s'était passé, mais aussi de l'émotion qui a saisi la France cette nuit là… D'aucuns répondront qu'il ne s'agit que de "veille d'info". Mais sur Internet, le journalisme de liens (qui trie et donne du sens) est une vraie fonction d'info. Une fonction journalistique, qui peut être assumée par des non-journalistes (le journalisme est alors vu comme une fonction, non plus comme un métier). On peut être non journaliste et excellent lecteur et decrypteur d'info. D'ailleurs, journaliste ou pas journaliste, peu importe. C'est la force du réseau qui constitue la richesse du live "participatif" " (...)

Anyone who works with fast moving technology knows that there is always a new shiny tool that gets all the attention. It tends to change every few months and anytime you start to use a new tool, you do secretly wonder if it will be around all that long.

Abstract: Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

This teacher's kids want to use pop music they love for a project.  Their teacher wants them to do so legally and with respect, so he's trying to contact the artist directly.  To get her attention (the artist is Taylor Swift), he's asking all his Twitter PLN to re-tweet his open letter to Taylor Swift to her Twitter account, so her mentions column will be filled with the RT of his letter.  If you Tweet, please copy and paste this into Twitter:RT @thenerdyteacher An Open Letter to @TaylorSwift13 - http://bit.ly/gV6uaH

Very useful advice - hope all Twitterers pay attention. Twitter is going to become less and less useful if people don't start using some common sense and stop abusing the service.

Any capitalist knows that for any business the ROI is crucial as well as the "revenue approach" with any great startups. When a startup is "growing extensively" as Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg today, they tend to get a lot of attention from across the financial markets.

"I actually believe Twitter will find a way to make some coin off its service-in the barest, basest and crudest form." -Jon Fine, Fine On Media

Excellent post by Joshua Porter discussing symmetrical (Facebook) and asymmetrical (Twitter) relationships online (c/o FS).

Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter Robyn Twomey for TIME ENLARGE + Print Reprints Email Twitter Linkedin Buzz up! (44) Facebook MORE... Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." Related Audio Host Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's Just Fox on stocks vs. bonds and Barbara Kiviat about the housing market's new movement Download | Subscribe Specials The World of Twitter Specials Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds Specials 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business Stories The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher More Related The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The Future of Twitter I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams w

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

The art of twitterature--a really cool article about how to make your tweets more like art. It actually can be done!