News goes social

links for 2009-05-30

• Was "Britain's Got Talent" (#bgt) Hollie Steele result a Fix tonight - Twitter thinks so.... - broadstuff
  potentially very disruptive when real-time response to a show massively differs from that presented by show's organisers
  (tags: twitter top10)
• Citizen Intelligence Analysts Unveil North Korea via Google Earth
  (tags: mapping korea)

links for 2009-05-29

• BBC Internet Blog: Microblogging the Editorial Policy Meeting
  Write up of BBC's internal meeting on micro-blogging guidelines
  (tags: twitter bbc guidelines)

links for 2009-05-28

• How should the NYT & established news orgs use social media? | BeatBlogging.Org
  Nothing new but elegantly summarised
  (tags: social_media howto nyt)
• Why Twitter beats RSS: Context + Content = Added Value - broadstuff
  Also very good broadbrush history of Twiter usage
  (tags: top10 twitter)
• MediaPost Publications Single Column Lists Take More Pages, But Achieve Better Results
  (tags: metrics)

links for 2009-05-27

• Pods: Delivery in flux, 26 May 09
  Jamillah's follow-on from Media140
  (tags: me twitter)
• Does the long tail apply to Online News?
  Study of French sites suggests not -- strong tendency for much coverage of a few stories.
  (tags: metrics longtail)
• How to open the World Economic Forum
  Matthias Lufkens explains how WEF is opening up to social media. Admirably frank about the challenges including the difficulties of moderation and the problems of enforcing Chatham House rules in the era of Twitter.
  (tags: video davos worldeconomicforum top10)

links for 2009-05-26

• Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships - BusinessWeek
  Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendships.
  (tags: ping.fm Friendship analysis data online friends marketing digital friendships networking mining facebook rapleaf ibm yahoo)
• The Engagement Spectrum / we are social
  (tags: visuals marketing)

links for 2009-05-24

• Journalism.co.uk :: BBC director-general on social media use: 'You can't take BBC cloak off at will'
  (tags: twitter howto bbc guidelines)
• Not by Links Alone « Networked News
  "We need a search experience built around concretely identifiable sources and writers. We need a search experience built around our friends and, lest we dwell too snugly in our own comfort zones, other expert readers we trust"
  (tags: top10)

links for 2009-05-23

• Media140: Truth versus speed? :: Kate Day
  Excellent summary by Telegraph's Kate Day of the possibilities and challenges of Twitter when it come to news.
  (tags: twitter top10)

links for 2009-05-22

• Use Twitter More Effectively and Measure ROI with Topify, Seesmic Desktop and bit.ly | danny brown
  Excellent introduction to what these services can do to amplify the impact of time spent on Twitter
  (tags: twitter checkitout howto)

links for 2009-05-21

• The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand » Nieman Journalism Lab
  (tags: journalism2.0 checkitout data)

links for 2009-05-20

• Information Arbitrage: Twitter is our id, Facebook is our Ego
  Because people don't think so hard about Twitter it is more revealing about their true nature
  (tags: top10 twitter psychology)