News goes social

links for 2009-07-11

• soho - Realtime image results at PicFog
  Impressive combination of user-generated photos with retweeting overlay
  (tags: twitter journalism2.0 aggregation photos)
• Felix Salmon » Blog Archive » Notes on blogging for journalists | Blogs |
  Top tips from a journalist turned blogger
  (tags: top10 howto blogging_versus_journalism)

links for 2009-07-10

• With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism” » Nieman Journalism Lab
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0 metrics gawker)

links for 2009-07-09

• How Talking Points Memo plans to expand its staff, open bureau in DC » Nieman Journalism Lab
  (tags: journalism2.0 talking_points_memo)
• The end of news websites? | Online Journalism Blog
  Will all journalists' effort in future be devoted to the article with the publishing platform beyond their control (but not their influence)?
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0)

links for 2009-07-08

• First rough sketch of storystreaming platform, Twitter first
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0)

links for 2009-07-07

• Independent's use of DebateGraph
  (tags: checkitout independent debate)
• 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter
  Most interesting may be that the magic number is 150 at which point there is a tendency to stop automatically following those that follow you. This is Dunbar's number.
  (tags: twitter metrics)

links for 2009-07-03

• Chris Anderson on the future of journalism
  (tags: chris anderson, journalism2.0, wired, huffingtonpost)
• Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success -- By The Numbers
  (tags: metrics facebook moderation)

links for 2009-07-02

• Stephen Brook on how gossip site TMZ.com has become a media giant | Life and style | The Guardian
  (tags: journalism2.0 TMZ)
• Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
  Politico is the future of news -- catering to the insiders and the compulsives with no room for the general interest reader. Can this be right? Specialist newsletter journalists to inherit the earth?
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0 politico)
• Tweader - Read Twitter conversations.
  (tags: twitter howto)
• Gawker - Twitter-Addled CNN Refers to Tweets as a 'Source' - Persiankiwi
  (tags: twitter journalism2.0 CNN)

links for 2009-06-30

• AOL Cracks Web Publishing -- Sans Time Warner
  Formula for success: deep verticals, aligned with what advertisers want, small staffs, lots of aggregation and turn your traffic firehose on
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0 aggregation AOL)
• Dear Malcolm: Why So Threatened? | Epicenter | Wired.com
  Chris Anderson's response to Malcolm Gladwell
  (tags: journalism2.0 malcolm_gladwell, chris_anderson,)
• SEOmoz | A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web
  Brilliant minute-by-minute breakdown of what actually happened including how long it took Google News to catch up. Major finding is that Google has a real problem with the real-time Web.
  (tags: twitter top10 google michaeljackson realtimeweb)
• Malcolm Gladwell: Chris Anderson Is Wrong About "Free"
  Anderson's thesis that information wants to be free turns out to require some very special conditions, according to Gladwell.
  (tags: top10 malcolm_gladwell, chris_anderson, monetisation,)
• Bring Twitter Talk To Your Site With Tweetboard
  (tags: checkitout twitter)
• Journalism Rules Are Bent in News Coverage From Iran
  Excellent NYT piece summing up what actually happened with live blogging of Iran protests. One factoid -- Huffington Post's live blog got 5 million page views (and its editor was allowed to ask Obama question at Iran news conf.).
  (tags: iran twitter nyt top10)
• AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff | Threat Level ...
  (tags: AP twitter facebook guidelines)

links for 2009-06-29

• The Conversational Marketing Summit Interview
  Fred Wilson in conversation with John Battelle. Fascinating about Twitter and Facebook. Also thinks blogs and blog comments are the other two of the four social media pillars. Key quote: "If you don't want to be a platform then I don't know what else you'd want to aspire to be." Talks of the need for tech innovation in DNA.
  (tags: top10 social_media fred_wilson)
• Tips for “live tweeting” an event | Twitter Journalism
  (tags: twitter howto)
• Global Voices Online » Iranian officials ‘crowd-source’ protester identities
  Actually both sides of the protests are using crowd-sourcing techniques creating the possiblity of horrible mob-like web behaviour
  (tags: dark_side_of_blogging globalvoices Iran)

links for 2009-06-27

• TMZ was far ahead in reporting Michael Jackson death
  (tags: tmz michaeljackson journalism2.0)
• Michael Jackson’s Death Triggers Social Media Exploitation | Digital Pivot
  More examples of the way in which social media can be hijacked. Also notable for signoff: "... or stalk me on twitter."
  (tags: twitter dark_side_of_blogging michaeljackson)
• The King of Twitter « BuzzMachine
  (tags: twitter top10 Iran michaeljackson)
• Trust 2.0 – reports of MJ’s death are not greatly exaggerated | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
  (tags: twitter journalism2.0 TMZ michaeljackson)
• How Michael Jackson's death captured Twitter's trends | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  great video of how the various tags came to dominate twitscoop
  (tags: twitter)