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The most important words in President Obama’s speech

Posted in user generated content, tagged , , , on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What you see here is a word cloud, created in Wordle.net of the 50 words President Obama used the most in the remarks prepared for his chat with school children tomorrow. Here’s a link to the text of the prepared remarks. (The cloud image links to details of how it was made.)
Here’s one message from [...]

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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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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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Saul Alinsky would be proud

Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, facebook, journalism, news business, online news business, university, user generated content, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us.
One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO to [...]

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Selling the free stuff for $14.99

Posted in news business, online news business, true stories, user generated content, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas
What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content?
People will buy it.
Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff.
The numbers are overwhelming and [...]

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