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Mainstream Media Mistakes on Twitter

Mainstream Media Mistakes on Twitter

FIRST, WHY ARE THERE NO NEWS PRODUCERS ON TWITTER? Twellow is the best application to find Twitterers grouped by occupation. I perused through the News category – noted a lot of freelancing journalists and some reporters, but no news producers or editors. Twitter makes it easy for a community to tip the news media News [...]

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The New Web 2.5 Opportunity: Create Media Hubs

The New Web 2.5 Opportunity: Create Media Hubs

TODAY’S ONLINE CONTENT FATIGUE Web 2.0 could be described as a phase in the evolution of the Internet that facilitated individuals in creating content within the constructs of social websites (blogs) and social networks (as participants). User-generated content was the New New Thing when it first appeared refreshingly on blogs (in 2002 blogs were being [...]

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#Mumbai part 2 – Mainstream Media Acknowledging Twitter

Today’s New York Times acknowledges the citizen journalism that was so prominent during the Mumbai terrorist incident: The attacks in India served as another case study in how technology is transforming people into potential reporters, adding a new dimension to the news media. At the peak of the violence, more than one message per second [...]

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#Mumbai – Debating Twitter’s Breaking News Role

#Mumbai – Debating Twitter’s Breaking News Role

The age old (at least during this decade) new media question: is citizen journalism journalism? Tom’s Tech Blog decries Twitter as an unreliable news source, and therefore not a news source, receives backlash from prominent bloggers: Yes, Twitter is a Source of Journalism – Mathew Ingram I Can’t Believe Some People are still Saying Twitter [...]

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