News goes social

links for 2009-08-28

• Twitter yields uneven ROI for news organisations
  Good piece looking at automation versus curation including experience at NYT, WaPo and Chicago Tribune
  (tags: twitter journalism2.0)
• What's Twitter good for? Five things
  Some interesting references to research including that showing how twitter friends are extremely likely to be local
  (tags: twitter metrics top10)

links for 2009-08-25

• The three missing pieces in Journalism
  Poynter piece using coverage of Obama's health bill to show how poor most journalism is in explaining what's going on and how you could make it a lot more engaging if you brought in the audience
  (tags: health journalism2.0 top10 poynter)

links for 2009-08-23

• So What Do You Do, Pete Cashmore, Mashable Founder and CEO ...
  Didn't realise he was based in Scotland. Thinks paywalls won't work and that all news orgs will have to maste not only content creation but content curation as well. Cites i-Report as a good example.
  (tags: mashable journalism2.0)

links for 2009-08-22

• Infotention Filters - What combination of mental and online tools can deal with information overload?
  Mindmap that sets out very well the shape of modern information systems and how they can work together to provide intelligent filters
  (tags: visuals top10)
• Why Do People REALLY Tweet? The Psychology Behind Tweeting!
  ThoughtPick blog relates twitter behaviours to Maslow's heirarchy of needs.
  (tags: twitter psychology top10)

links for 2009-08-21

• The Associated Press: Afghans turn to the Twitterverse for election
  Quotes noodlepie
  (tags: afghanistan twitter)
• The Pros and Cons of Auto Tweeting Blog Posts : Performancing
  (tags: howto twitter)
• Next Up at YouTube: Figuring Out What You Want to Watch Next
  Introducing the concept of 'Van Halen fatigue'
  (tags: youtube google)
• LIVE: Afghan election 2009
  Nice live blog on the elections -- heavily dominated by their own correspondents but why not if you've got them?
  (tags: afghanistan jounalism2.0 bbc)

links for 2009-08-20

• What happened when Sky News took images from Twitter | Online Journalism Blog
  The photographer advertised his poor treatment by Sky on Twitter.
  (tags: twitter Sky)

links for 2009-08-19

• Information underload: Breaking down Twitter use - The Globe and Mail
  (tags: visuals twitter)

links for 2009-08-18

• The Caffeine Cuve
  (tags: visuals humour)
• Twitter Signal to Noise ratio about 10%?
  Or possibly 20%. Certainly higher than Facebook, according to Broadstuff
  (tags: twitter metrics)

links for 2009-08-16

• Help Me Investigate: How working collaboratively can benefit journalists
  How Birmingham Post used results of a crowdsourced inviestigation into parking tickets and some of the issues the process raised
  (tags: crowdsourcing birminghampost)
• 140Char » One image shows how news has changed due to Twitter
  (tags: twitter howsocialmediaischangingnews)

links for 2009-08-15

• The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
  Thank dopamine. Our internal sense of time is believed to be controlled by the dopamine system. People with hyperactivity disorder have a shortage of dopamine in their brains, which a recent study suggests may be at the root of the problem.
  (tags: top10 thought psychology Slate)
• DailyMe Offers Reader Recommendation Tech Tool
  (tags: checkitout personalisation dailyme)