Posted in Twitter, bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, social networking, user generated content, tagged AP, BBC, Forrester, journalism, KPBS, marketing, NBC, New York Times, news, Pistachio, public relations, Smart Mobs, statistics, TED, Tweet, Twitter, Wiki on March 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
What is Twitter?
It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less.
And it is a place to listen.
Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around the world. They [...]
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Posted in bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, true stories, tagged , Aspen Institute, CNN Democratic candidate debate, J.D. Lasica, mobile, moblogging, Roundable on Mobile Media and Civic engagement, SF State, Twitter, UNLV, Utterz on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like a [...]
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Posted in crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, social networking, tagged community news, crowdsourcing, innovation incubator, journalism, journalism students, Knight Foundation grant, Online News Association, Poynter on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s the reason for my slow posts this past couple weeks, as I and other faculty herded students from seven universities to the Online News Association conference in Toronto to present youthful and innovative visions for the future of news.
First, a video of students from each of the three projects from MediaGiraffe.
I’m a little partial [...]
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