News goes social

links for 2009-11-30

• Your brain on Google
  ... is twice as active as when reading a book
  (tags: visuals top10)

links for 2009-11-28

• Organic mechanics
  Fascinating piece looking at how economics, which once sought intellectual weight by mimicking physics, is increasingy looking to biology for lessons on how complex systems works and, in particular, how financial regulation might best be handled
  (tags: regulation finance behaviouraleconomics top10)

links for 2009-11-26

• Bobbies on the tweet
  One Yorkshire policemen likens reporting a crime on Twitter to pinning a notice on a lamppost and piece also looks at the case of a nightclub assault in which the police failed to identify any suspects while the victim use Facebook to pin them down
  (tags: police twitter socialmedia top10)

links for 2009-11-25

• The new journalist in the age of social media
  Excellent JD Lassica presentation. However, more interesting on what 'causes' should do than journalists.
  (tags: journalism2.0 visual humanitarian)

links for 2009-11-23

• How Google Wave is changing the news
  (tags: google wave journalism2.0)

links for 2009-11-21

• Revised LA Times social media guidelines
  (tags: LA_Times social_media guidelines)
• Thoughts from #1pound40: Can Twitter curate journalism?
  (tags: 1pound40)

links for 2009-11-20

• Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System? " emergent by design
  I think the answer is yes.
  (tags: collective_intelligence top10 twitter)
• Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace
  Mind-boggling deck from Pierre Levy, which, among other things, puts the semantic web on a timeline going back 300,000 years
  (tags: visuals collective_intelligence top10 thought)
• Techmeme is profitable
  ... according to this somewhat gushing LA Times piece. It also mentions it has three human editors. Or should that be six?
  (tags: techmeme)
• The new news audience | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life ...
  Good summary of trends in media usage including a wealth of demographic data.
  (tags: metrics visuals top10)

links for 2009-11-19

• Streams of Content, Limited Attention and Twitterwalls
  Alan Patrick on Danah Boyd's apparent conversion to social media sceptic
  (tags: top10 social_media dark_side_of_blogging)

links for 2009-11-18

• The War For the Web - O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: top10 social_media)

links for 2009-11-17

• 10 insights into guidance, as opposed to governance
  Scott Gould on the ethos behind the 'unconference' approach
  (tags: 1pound40)
• US Treasury invites in financial bloggers
  (tags: Financial journalism2.0 Treasury)