News goes social

links for 2011-07-30

• Spreading rumours on Twitter
  Editor of American Journalism Review takes issue with Felix Salmon's downplaying of journalists spreading false rumours.
  (tags: twitter reuters howto)

links for 2011-07-29

• 20 minutes: Life of a Twitter rumour
  Ross Neuman has storify'd the retweeting of the rumour CNN had suspended Piers Morgan
  (tags: reuters)
• Being wrong on Twitter
  Felix Salmon argues for tolerance towards those who make mistakes on Twitter, including journalists. 
  (tags: reuters social_media howto)

links for 2011-07-27

• The Anticipation of Being Re-Tweeted " An Associate's Mind
  A unified theory of why social networks are so addictive AND why we get bored of them.
  (tags: essentialreading psychology anthropology)

links for 2011-07-24

• From "write us a post" to "fill out this form:"
  Concise survey of the state of pro-am reporting by Jay Rosen. Gives the state-of-the-art a C-
  (tags: essentialreading)

links for 2011-07-21

• Google+ is the social backbone - O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: essentialreading)

links for 2011-07-19

• 21 New Media Innovators -- Daily Intel
  Here's the evidence that social media is reinvigorating journalism. US-centric but picks up on all the key trends in new journalism.
  (tags: journalism2.0 essentialreading)

links for 2011-07-18

• The ROI of Social Media: 10 Case Studies - TNW Social Media
  (tags: essentialreading monetisation)

links for 2011-07-16

• 5 Best Practices for Applying Game Mechanics to Your Website
  (tags: gamification)

links for 2011-07-15

• Optimising Facebook posts
  Adding pix, asking questions, writing meaty analysis are three ways to boost reactions
  (tags: facebook)
• Huffington Post's challenge to the legacy media.
  Jack Shafer reminds everyone that Drudge is the grandaddy of aggregation and that old media could have strangled HuffPo at birth if had not been so obsessed with their own content. 
  (tags: aggregation huffingtonpost essentialreading)

links for 2011-07-14

• Information Flow Can Reveal Dirty Deeds - Science News
  Fascinating mapping of how pattern of email communications differed according to whether material was illicit or legitimate.
  (tags: visuals essentialreading)