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The Twitters tell the story

Posted in Twitter, crowdsourcing, digital journalism, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, user generated content on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I was asked to be the wrap-up Rapporteur for the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin last week.
The conference had the Twitter hashtag #isoj, and, partly because it is Webcast live, people were watching and Twittering about it in real time on at least four continents. (Here is [...]

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Sad face TwitterSync no workie

Posted in Twitter, bloggers, facebook, social networking, true stories, tagged on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When my friend Chris O’Brien messaged me yesterday asking how I link my Twitter updates to my Facebook status, I had to haul myself out of denial and figure out what went wrong.
For months I had been speeding along in the fast lane with my FB and Tweets all linked together for one-stop updating. I [...]

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Visualizing Twitter

Posted in Twitter, digital journalism, online news business, social networking, user generated content, tagged , , on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

New Twitter applications just keep getting more and more fun, but they are tough to keep track of.
Here’s a delightful and encompassing post from Flowing Data on 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe.
(Call me crazy, but it reminds me of “Visualize Whirled Peas.” )
The blog’s author, Nathan Yau, says he is a UCLA [...]

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Twitter 101

Posted in Twitter, bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, social networking, user generated content, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 3, 2008 | 17 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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