Almighty Link

Last week, I became part of a small team of Freedom Communications employees who will, for 90 days, explore social media and the ways in which the company (which owns over 100 newspapers and eight TV stations) and its employees should participate in social networks.
As part of that experiment, we launched Social Freedom, a blog [...]

Tales of journalists using social media, and non-journalists committing acts of journalism using social tools, are starting to sound like stories of people using their telephones. Social media is becoming part of everyday communication for many people in general. Journalists rely on communication tools to get their job done. Does that mean that social networks [...]

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 up the [...]

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 happy with [...]