News goes social

links for 2008-07-15

• State of Play with NYT's technology
  Silicon Alley Insider think NYT are ahead of the pack. Lots of widgets coming, more blogrunner integration and development of the TimesPeople social overlay.
  (tags: NYT)
• How to blog by CommonCraft
  Great video and how to blog in 12 rules.
  (tags: howto top10 visuals)

links for 2008-07-10

• Flickr users get chance to sell photos through Getty Images
  (tags: photos)
• How Popular Blogs and Mainstream Media Appear The Same
  (tags: top10 blogging_versus_journalism)

links for 2008-07-06

• "People, Places, Subjects" - BBC Topic and Guardian keyword pages: Part 1
  currybetdotnet on different approaches taken on topic-tracking
  (tags: topics bbc guardian journalism2.0)
• Polymeme: Memetracker With Editors
  An attempt to avoid the echo chamber effect generated by meme trackers by employing human editors to filter the good stuff.
  (tags: social_media techmeme meme checkitout)
• cybersoc.com: a good set of slides explaining social media
  (tags: social_media visuals top10)

links for 2008-06-29

• FriendFeed: One Feature to The Tipping Point - ReadWriteWeb
  New features -- rooms and group recommendations -- have radically increased the usefulness of FriendFeed to the point at which its content recommendation engine may be better than Digg, since it relies on conversation rather that (gamable) voting
  (tags: friendfeed digg social_media)
• TechnoKimchi :: Now, this is what you call "true citizen journalism"
  Fascinating post on how live citizen tv coverage of S Korean protests over food safety, which were largely ignored by mainstream media, prompted massive coverage.
  (tags: korea journalism2.0 ohmynews top10)

links for 2008-06-27

• How mass media is embracing social media
  Good pull-together of how user-generated content, social media and mass media are coming together into a new media ecosystem
  (tags: top10 social_media visuals)
• Media2.0
  A Matthew Buckland presentation from a few months back on how Mail & Guardian turned its traditional media model on its head for next to no money.
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0 visuals)
• Why Media Gets Community Wrong - One Man and His Blog
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0)

links for 2008-06-21

• AP/Drudge Retort "Resolution" Leaves Fair Use Questions Unanswered
  Good round-up of the tangle AP has got itself into over IP
  (tags: AP legal)
• Flaking on Pageflakes::4 Reasons I Don't Use Personalized Start Pages (And 3 Reasons Others Do) | PBS
  Pageflakes hasn't done that well and other personalised homepages (including iGoogle) have failed to catch up with older (and less open?) personal portals like MyYahoo.
  (tags: personalisation netvibes pageflakes)
• Social Media Research Blog: Some things are just Semi-Social
  An obvious point perhaps, but some aspects of sharing have their limits -- my location, salary, investment portfolio -- that I am only going to be willing to share with a trusted network.
  (tags: social_media investing)

links for 2008-06-19

• SEO basics
  ...from the Bivings Report
  (tags: seo search howto)
• Joining the TimesPeople
  Roadtest of NYT's new networking feature
  (tags: NYT social_media)

links for 2008-06-18

• Information is only scarce if you live in a bubble
  Interesting update on the blogger vs journalist debate: which would you rather marry? Includes excellent example of multimedia packaging.
  (tags: blogging_versus_journalism top10 journalism2.0)
• Smart search engines
  (tags: search aggregation)

links for 2008-06-17

• AP faces copyright row with bloggers
  (tags: ap legal)
• Live coverage on Twitter - useful or just plain annoying?
  Real world lessons from a live (micro) blogger
  (tags: twitter journalism2.0)
• Red Cross Reaches During Iowa Floods
  .. using a blog, twitter and utterz (mobile audio)
  (tags: humanitarian)
• I and Smarter!
  Multi-tasking slows you down -- even if you're really young
  (tags: top10 dark_side_of_blogging)
• Silobreaker
  Potential aggregation model
  (tags: aggregation checkitout)

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