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The Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that 8 per cent of Americans use Twitter. If I were an American, I would be among the one-in-four Twitter users who check several times per day for updates — not the one-in-five who never checks.
Thu, December 9 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments
New features for Facebook and applications such as TweetDeck for Twitter, not to mention innovations such as Flipboard and Instapaper, are shifting how online news is consumed, writes Richard McManus of ReadWriteWeb.
Tue, December 7 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, subject of the recent movie The Social Network, granted an interview to CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. I saw it by watching the video posted at TheNextWeb. The occasion of the interview was to mark the launch of Facebook’s redesigned profile page.
Sun, December 5 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Media Bistro did a brief interview with Chris Boutet, senior producer of digital media, about how the online side of the National Post uses Twitter. No big surprises, but check it out. And here’s the-post-on-twitter list. Note this at the bottom: For more on how the National Post is innovating with social media more generally, including a [...]
Mon, November 22 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Guardian editor in chief Alan Rusbridger got some significant retweet attention from the people I follow on Twitter about his article on why Twitter matters for media organizations. He lists 15 things that Twitter does really well. I quibble with some of his points (updated Nov. 23).
Sat, November 20 2010 » Main Page, Media » 3 Comments
Fri, November 19 2010 » Main Page, Media, multimedia » 2 Comments
Ah, who knows? But NBC’s Mark Lukasiewicz told a Canadian Journalism Foundation event that there will always be a demand for good visual story-telling — it just might not pay as well as it did before.
Tue, November 16 2010 » Main Page, Media » 4 Comments
From Lifehacker.com via TheStar.com: The Social Media Sobriety Test is a simple extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that administers a set of sobriety tests to keep you from drunkenly leaving a post on your boss’s wall or sharing your margarita-fuelled musings via Twitter. Similar to the “Mail Google” feature in Google Labs — which [...]
Wed, November 10 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
A few new tidbits from media thinker Clay Shirky hit the Internets on Monday. From Poynter: Shirky: The shock of inclusion and new roles for news in the fabric of society. From Shirky’s blog: The Times’ paywall and newsletter economics.
Tue, November 9 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
My last post was about the emphemeral nature of online life and relationships. This one is about outright fakery.
Tue, November 2 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media, politics » 9 Comments