September 18th, 2012
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David Carr on newspapers, Twitter and citizen journalism — Gigaom
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September 3rd, 2012
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“Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused on a single, simple stream that offers a river of news which users can easily scroll through, skim over, and click on to read in more depth.

Most media companies on the web spend all of their effort putting content into content management systems which publish pages. These pages work essentially the same way that pages have worked since the beginning of the web, with a single article or post living at a particular address, and then tons of navigation and cruft (and, usually, advertisements) surrounding that article.

Users have decided they want streams, but most media companies are insisting on publishing more and more pages. And the systems which publish the web are designed to keep making pages, not to make customized streams.

It’s time to stop publishing web pages.”

Stop Publishing Web Pages - Anil Dash (via worthingtonwire)

Some food for thought, the future may well be a streaming library. ~ eP

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August 27th, 2012
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How To Be A Good Social Networker

Against Enthusiasm: The epidemic of niceness in online book culture

The writer Emma Straub has 9,192 Twitter followers. That might seem like a lot for an author whose first novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, hasn’t even come out yet. But Emma Straub is really good at Twitter. She’s funny and charming and evinces great enthusiasm for the books and stories of the fellow authors and critics in her social sphere. Outside of Twitter, Straub writes for many bookish publications, she’s the daughter of the novelist Peter Straub, and she runs a small design outfit with her husband that’s made posters for everyone from Passion Pit to Jonathan Lethem.- Slate 

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August 15th, 2012
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Social Media 101

Learn how to social network without having to ask your 8-year-old. 

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July 28th, 2012
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Is Reddit the future of news or the present? | Poynter.

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pparently, the future of news is not conferences about the future of news. The future of news is debates about Reddit. The flashpoint for this round was Michael Barthel’s take on Mathew Ingram’s piece about how people on Reddit covered the Colorado theater shootings. Citizen journalism such as what Redditors practiced, Barthel writes, is remarkably similar to the traditional type:

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July 22nd, 2012
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Aurora tragedy played out in social media - SFGate

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Jessica Ghawi, a budding sportscaster in the Denver area, teased her friend for not attending the Thursday night premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises.” “Psh. Loser!” she wrote at 10:33 p.m. on Twitter. “Which is why you’re tweeting now and not at the movie?” responded her friend, Jesse Spector. “MOVIE DOESN’T START FOR 20 MINUTES,” Ghawi replied, in what would be her final tweet.

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July 6th, 2012
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Social media and citizen journalism are powerful tools

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Participants in a workshop on the ethics of social media called for guidelines in the use of social media and citizen journalism that can create greater transparency and credibility. Building a healthy alliance between professional journalists and citizen journalists is crucial to good governance and good citizenship.

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July 6th, 2012
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Digital Journalism – How News is Sourced with Social Media [Infographic] | Social Media Today

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A week ago I wrote a post on how social media is replacing traditional journalism as a news source and the feedback was interesting to say the least. When I look deeper at how mobile and social media drive news consumption the information begins to add up. A recent article points out the growing trend of digital media in newsrooms with their fifth annual Oriella Digital Journalism Study:

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July 6th, 2012
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BBC global news chief on trust: 'If they believe us, they will share it' | Media news | Journalism.co.uk

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Peter Horrocks tells World Media Summit in Moscow audiences trust news shared by their family and friends more than articles shared by ‘most traditional media’

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July 5th, 2012
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A Criminal Court judge in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Twitter must turn over to prosecutors messages sent by a Brooklyn writer during the Occupy Wall Street protests last fall. In doing so, the judge, Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr., indicated that although private speech was protected, the same did not apply to public comments on Twitter. “The Constitution gives you the right to post, but as numerous people have learned, there are still consequences for your public posts,” Judge Sciarrino wrote. “What you give to the public belongs to the public. What you keep to yourself belongs only to you.

Judge Orders Twitter to Release Protester’s Messages - NYTimes.com

Based on this ruling, we’d like to remind journalists that using direct messages onTwitter is not the best way to correspond with your sources. 

Do you think this ruling will have other implications for digital journalists?

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July 2nd, 2012
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What are owners doing with their mobile media devices? | RJI

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The rapid adoption of Apple iPads and comparable large media tablets is clearly disrupting the way people engage with the digital world. Tablets also are fostering new media habits that are directly impacting news organizations worldwide. Journalists and news executives can take some encouragement from knowing that nearly all surveys, including this one, have found consuming news to be one of the most popular uses for tablets, even among owners ages 18-34.

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June 29th, 2012
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Zoom futurejournalismproject: It’s a Phone, We Just Don’t Talk on it Anymore Five years ago Apple released the iPhone and, as Matthew Ingram writes over at GigaOm, it didn’t just disrupt photography, and the music and mobile software business, but the entire technology industry. We don’t even really talk on it anymore. Or, as a report from UK telecommunications company O2 indicates, we do a whole host of things with our smart phones before actually making a call. Via The Next Web: Browsing the Internet is the most frequent activity on smartphones these days, accounting for 25 minutes a day, while more specifically, checking social networking sites accounts for 17.5 minutes of our time. Listening to music (15.5) and playing games (14.5) were also more popular than good old-fashioned voice calls, which apparently people only spend a little more than 12 minutes a day doing… …According to O2’s ‘All About You’ report, which was based on a survey involving 2,000 people, we spend around 2 hours a day on average using our smartphones, which also includes other activities such as testing, emailing, reading books and taking photographs. At GigaOm, Ingram reflects on how the iPhone has changed both news consumption and production. Think: the phone lets you take notes, record interviews, take pictures and — maybe most important — find your way to where you actually have to be. Combine the iPhone with Twitter — along with feed readers and the general mobile Web — and you have both a news alert and publishing system in your pocket. Via GigaOm: In some ways, the iPhone and Twitter were made for each other: one allows for the easy creation of content and the other allows it to be easily shared and distributed far and wide. These things can be done on other handsets, and there are plenty of Android and other devices that allow for the same experience, but the iPhone was arguably the first to take those abilities and make them widely available — and appealing enough for many to want to do so. Now we’re starting to see apps and services that take advantage of this ability, whether it’s things like iWitness or other platforms that filter user-generated content, or networks that allow smartphone users to sell newsworthy photos or videos they have taken. The San Jose Mercury News conducted an interesting experiment with an app called TapIn, which allowed users to post photos and other content about breaking news, and allowed journalists and others to send out public calls for crowdsourced photos or videos of events as well. Not bad for a five-year-old innovation. Image: iPhone Birthday Cake, by Garrett Dimon.

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It’s a Phone, We Just Don’t Talk on it Anymore

Five years ago Apple released the iPhone and, as Matthew Ingram writes over at GigaOm, it didn’t just disrupt photography, and the music and mobile software business, but the entire technology industry.

We don’t even really talk on it anymore. Or, as a report from UK telecommunications company O2 indicates, we do a whole host of things with our smart phones before actually making a call.

Via The Next Web:

Browsing the Internet is the most frequent activity on smartphones these days, accounting for 25 minutes a day, while more specifically, checking social networking sites accounts for 17.5 minutes of our time. Listening to music (15.5) and playing games (14.5) were also more popular than good old-fashioned voice calls, which apparently people only spend a little more than 12 minutes a day doing…

…According to O2’s ‘All About You’ report, which was based on a survey involving 2,000 people, we spend around 2 hours a day on average using our smartphones, which also includes other activities such as testing, emailing, reading books and taking photographs.

At GigaOm, Ingram reflects on how the iPhone has changed both news consumption and production. Think: the phone lets you take notes, record interviews, take pictures and — maybe most important — find your way to where you actually have to be.

Combine the iPhone with Twitter — along with feed readers and the general mobile Web — and you have both a news alert and publishing system in your pocket.

Via GigaOm:

In some ways, the iPhone and Twitter were made for each other: one allows for the easy creation of content and the other allows it to be easily shared and distributed far and wide. These things can be done on other handsets, and there are plenty of Android and other devices that allow for the same experience, but the iPhone was arguably the first to take those abilities and make them widely available — and appealing enough for many to want to do so.

Now we’re starting to see apps and services that take advantage of this ability, whether it’s things like iWitness or other platforms that filter user-generated content, or networks that allow smartphone users to sell newsworthy photos or videos they have taken. The San Jose Mercury News conducted an interesting experiment with an app called TapIn, which allowed users to post photos and other content about breaking news, and allowed journalists and others to send out public calls for crowdsourced photos or videos of events as well.

Not bad for a five-year-old innovation.

Image: iPhone Birthday Cake, by Garrett Dimon.

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April 10th, 2012
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9 Bold Predictions for the Digital World of 2020

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Seen on Mashable: “Do you daydream about the future? We thought so. But rather than bore you with our frivolous wish lists (which are mostly comprised of hoverboards and self-lacing shoes), we have asked nine leading futurists to share their visions of the digital world of 2020. Click through the slideshow to see…read on.”

Prediction #4:

“…access will replace ownership in almost all forms of media. Future media ‘consumers’ will simply have music, films, TV shows, games, etc. in the cloud, paid ‘with attention,’ i.e., advertising and data mining (Facebook cloud), subscription (Apple new iTV), and bundles (i.e., with mobile operators).

Most importantly, many consumers will not pay for ‘content’ per se, but for all the added values around the content, such as curation, packaging, design, social connections, interfaces, apps, etc.”

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