This is an edited version of the fictional examples that appeared in yesterday’s post, “Imagine Twitter without links.” Do the links make for better tweets? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below, or feel free to send me a tweet. “http://twitpic.com/135xa – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick [...]
Anecdotal observation: Twitter users rely heavily on links. That’s why this Almight Link blog has had so many posts about social media. Imagine Twitter without hyperlinks. “A plane just landed in the Hudson.” I snapped a shot of passengers on the wing. Unfortunately, I can’t share it with the world. I’m sure newspapers will be [...]
Yesterday, we looked at how social media covered the topic of journalism in 2009. Today, we offer four lists of blog posts and articles published by three traditional, mainstream news sources who covered social media this year. The stories were curated by Google with gentle nudges by a human editor. The Lede The first set of [...]
Before 2009, few of my IRL journalism colleagues read popular social media blogs, and those sites rarely talked about the news industry or journalism. But this year, everything changed. Many journalists and news organizations started participating in social networks, we watched major stories unfold in mobile and social spaces, and social media blogs wrote about journalism and [...]
