News goes social

links for 2009-04-29

• Google Maps Mania: Swine Flu Outbreak (3) - Updated
  (tags: swineflu)
• globeandmail.com: Live updates on the swine flu outbreak
  using coveritlive
  (tags: globeandmailswineflu)
• 2009 Swine Flu (H1N1) Outbreak Map - Google Maps
  Best online map yet
  (tags: swineflu)
• Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why? - ReadWriteWeb
  Facebook is about sharing within a closed friendship group. Twitter is about asynchronous sharing of news. They are different things. FB should stick to its knitting.
  (tags: top10 twitter)
• Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth | Nielsen Wire
  (tags: twitter)

links for 2009-04-28

• Corporate Blogs and 'Tweets' Must Keep SEC in Mind
  (tags: twitter)
• Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform | Net Effect
  "...the “swine flu” Twitter-scare has once again proved the importance of context – and how badly most Twitter conversations are hurt by the lack of it."
  (tags: twitter)

links for 2009-04-27

• Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines
  (tags: top10 howto)
• HOW TO: Track Swine Flu Online
  (tags: howto swineflu)
• How to Save Newspapers (Or, Why the NYT Should Acquire Twitter)
  Umair Haque sets out four reasons why Twitter and NYT are natural partners (but see the comments for reasons why this might lead to Twitter falling from grace)
  (tags: top10 twitter)
• ITV misses out as Susan Boyle conquers web | Media | The Observer
  YouTube and TV bosses work to end revenue stalemate as talent show star gets 100m hits
  (tags: ping.fm Susan Boyle Britain's Got Talent ITV YouTube Reality TV Simon Cowell Television Media Technology Culture UK news)

links for 2009-04-24

• How to make Twitter content searchable
  Emphasises the real-time news search dimension to Twitter
  (tags: top10 twitter howto)

links for 2009-04-23

• Blogs: One person’s curation is another person’s scraping » Nieman Journalism Lab
  nice distillation of the issues around curation
  (tags: top10 aggregation allthingsdigital)

links for 2009-04-22

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
  (tags: top10)

links for 2009-04-20

• Daily Kos: State of the Nation
  Interesting analysis of primary source of material presented on homepage.
  (tags: top10 metrics dailykos)

links for 2009-04-19

• The Web In Numbers: The Rise Of Social Media
  (tags: metrics)

links for 2009-04-17

• TimesPeople: the social network for the New York Times. « How to microblog in high heels
  Straightforward review of TimesPeople's blend of Twitter and Facebook around article sharing.
  (tags: checkitout nyt)
• Cultivating a Community Garden, not a Public Toilet | PBS
  Four golden rules for nurturing community rather than providing a scrawl wall
  (tags: top10 moderation)