December 2008
26 posts
New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit | Old... →
Once you decide to put your organization on Twitter, the temptation is great to turn on Twitterfeed, which automatically puts RSS feeds into Twitter, and forget it. It’s like magic! You just have to…
HOW TO: Use Google Reader Like A Rockstar →
Some advice on efficient ways to use Google Reader.
If I Started Today | chrisbrogan.com →
Some advice on how to get started using social media tools.
Why I Love Twitter - O'Reilly Radar →
Twitter has grown up to become a critical business tool, ideal for following the latest news, tracking the ideas and whereabouts of people who will shape the future of technology, and sharing my own…
40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content →
Some useful advice on how best to get speed with blog style writing and publishing.
FeedVis RSS Feed Tag Cloud Generator →
FeedVis [jasonpriem.com] is an online tag cloud generator with some additional interactive features. Users can select specific time periods, common blog themes or individual blog feeds. Individual…
Explaining Twitter to journalists | yelvington.com →
A lot of news organizations are beginning to figure out how to use Twitter both in gathering and disseminating information. So far, I haven’t seen any blowhard print columnists ranting about tweeters…
SpatialKey: Time and Location Based Information... →
SpatialKey [spatialkey.com] is marketed as a “next generation Information Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System”. It is specifically designed to help organizations quickly assess…
Notes from a Teacher - Training journalists →
Richard Koci Hernandez shows all the visual creativity we have come to associate him with in explaining what he’s been up to since leaving the San Jose Mercury News. Sounds like an amazing j-program.
Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It,... →
Advice on how to use Twitter as a research tool.
Kevin Matthews: Quick tips to search the web like... →
Tip 23 in a series of great tips about how best to use Google for advanced search purposes.
Twitter multi account manager & brand monitor |... →
Splitweet helps manage multi-acconts on Twitter.
DoYouFeed.com: Turn any RSS feed into an iPhone... →
Feeding RSS to an iPhone the easy way.
Karp on the theory behind the Publish2 contest |... →
Scott Karp on recruiting a new kind of journalist - “I think most important is a familiarity with the web and digital media that comes from actually using them. The best way to learn new media is to…
How SEO is changing journalism, Shane Richmond -... →
Online news may seem similar to its offline equivalent… but it is fundamentally different. In the offline world audiences form around a single title or a particular news bulletin. This happens for…
A couple of tips for blog search " slewfootsnoop →
Try an Advanced Google Blog search for nurse within the By Author filter, and you will find far more. This could be because the By Author filter searches through About pages of blogs, which will…
DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer →
Doodlebuzz allows you to see news in a new way by searching on a term and “doodling the news” Not sure if it’s really practical, but it looks pretty.
cybersoc.com: searching the social web: lesson... →
Good outline of a day course of social media training for journalists focussing on tracking sources, people during breaking news.
Twitter / MrTweet →
“I am your personal twitter assistant - add me as a friend, and I’ll suggest to you which influencers and followers you should check out.”
BBC - Journalism Labs - blog →
Welcome to Journalism Labs, a blog that provides an in depth look at the design and technology behind the BBC’s online journalism. It is written by staff from BBC FM&T Journalism, a relatively new…
Following Mumbai Attacks via Social Media —... →
Quick round up of how some people used a number of social media sites to report and follow news as it breaked in Mumbai during the terror attacks of November 2008
Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism —... →
“Twitter reports are a valuable “first draft of history,” and that is a pretty good definition of the news.”
30 online social tools we use and recommend →
List of 30 online tools some of which can be used for journalism.
A timeline of online media landmarks by... →
Interesting wee timeline of important online media landmarks using Dipity to chart the timeline.
Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits →
Some more thoughts on social media during the Mumbai attacks.
Another people finder - Yasni " slewfootsnoop →
The first major advantage 123people has over Yasni, is it’s organisation by type of web content. Right at the top of results in the former, you will find images, then email addresses, then phone…