Comments on: Executive tweets during search for murder suspect http://almightylink.ksablan.com/journalism/executive-tweets-during-search-for-murder-suspect/ How people, journalists, and companies connect through links and social tools Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:37:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Balcerak http://almightylink.ksablan.com/journalism/executive-tweets-during-search-for-murder-suspect/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Paul Balcerak Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:24:25 +0000 http://almightylink.ksablan.com/?p=2066#comment-1224 What's interesting is that at a <a href="http://blog.nonewsisbadnews.org/post/81948055/the-full-nnbn-event-1-watch-it-all" target="_blank">future-of-news meet-up back in February</a>, someone erroneously attributed a quote to Boardman while he was in the room and Boardman seemed to take a hint of pleasure in correcting the person and pointing out how fast the misquote spread on Twitter. Of course, anyone who uses Twitter knows that the beauty of it is that it doesn't take 24 hours to publish a correction. I say this not to charge Mr. Boardman with hypocrisy, but to point out that this is a guy who, not too long ago, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004423461_boardman18.html" target="_blank">seemed a curmudgeonly Old Media type</a> and is now at least showing a willingness to experiment at the forefront of digital publishing. I applaud the Times for their efforts (and congratulate them—they apparently pulled in <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004049900" target="_blank">record traffic</a>) and I'll add that I think a lot of people here in Seattle were surprised. The Times isn't exactly seen as being at the cutting edge of New Media, but their moves of late seem to indicate that the culture there is changing. I'm really interested and excited to see what they do next. What's interesting is that at a future-of-news meet-up back in February, someone erroneously attributed a quote to Boardman while he was in the room and Boardman seemed to take a hint of pleasure in correcting the person and pointing out how fast the misquote spread on Twitter. Of course, anyone who uses Twitter knows that the beauty of it is that it doesn't take 24 hours to publish a correction.

I say this not to charge Mr. Boardman with hypocrisy, but to point out that this is a guy who, not too long ago, seemed a curmudgeonly Old Media type and is now at least showing a willingness to experiment at the forefront of digital publishing.

I applaud the Times for their efforts (and congratulate them—they apparently pulled in record traffic) and I'll add that I think a lot of people here in Seattle were surprised. The Times isn't exactly seen as being at the cutting edge of New Media, but their moves of late seem to indicate that the culture there is changing. I'm really interested and excited to see what they do next.

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