Reporting has always been about digging for facts, finding people to talk with, and gathering visual and aural accounts. Now that broadband is widespread, the tools have changed.
This Saturday, I’ll be in South Florida teaching an Online News Association workshop on where to go and what to use to mine, crowdsource, and distribute stories. It’s [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: Online News Association, Online social networking, Social information processing, twitter, Web 2.0
Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams opened the Online News Association 2009 conference with a discussion about the service, how it’s changed and what plans the company has in store. Watch the livestream:
You can also watch Leo Laporte’s keynote and the ONA Online Journalism Awards ceremony. Video from ONA09 panel sessions are free for members, [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: conference, Evan Williams, keynote, ONA09, Online News Association, twitter
Headline writing has always been part of the craft of journalism. Online, it’s even more important as it catches reader attention and affects Google page rank.
Those who follow me on Twitter will sometimes see an update that begins, “The hed made me read it.”
In doing so, I’m trying to point out just how important it [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Yesterday, a massive earthquake did untold amounts of damage in Chengdu, the largest city in China.
While people were trying to get details of magnitude, damage and the status of loved ones, the Web was simultaneously aflame with self-congratulatory news that the first reports of the quake came out on Twitter, thanks to Robert Scoble bringing [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: echo chamber, foreign news, tunnel vision, twitter
Web users are facing an identity crisis. As the public – readers, potential employers, coworkers – continue Googling each other to learn more about who they’re reading, there’s more potential for spoofing.
Daniel Schawbel on Social Media Today wrote a post with some solid advice about claiming your name on popular social networking and blog sites, [...]
Categories: Social Media
The two big national stories today have been Pope Benedict XVI’s public event in Washington and the Democratic candidates’ debate in Philadelphia.
(Photos by jurvetson/Flickr, Nrbelex/Flickr)
TV and cable coverage of the pope has overshadowed almost everything else. But looking at Google Trends, it appears the debate is the more popular topic nationwide.
Tonight’s hotly anticipated faceoff between [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media
This just in from TrendStarks:
Google and Twitter are partnering to track Super Tuesday around the country. A live interactive map plots tweets.
Pretty cool.
Original post from Google.
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Maps
Twitter’s spreading … or should I say, its use among mainstream journos is spreading. In today’s NYTimes.com, Noam Cohen describes how political reporters from Slate, Time and AFP (among others) are using the site to send on-the-scene descriptions from the campaign trail.
The 140-character limit is giving rise to the return of telegraphese, Cohen notes. He [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media
Tagged: twitter