Covering the London Marathon using social media: 5 lessons learned :: Kate Day April 29, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentKate Day reflects on her experience — perhaps the most important point is: "Let the story choose the medium rather than worrying about playing with all the toys available to you."
So armed with my camera, three lenses, a laptop and an iPhone, I decided to see what it was like using social media to cover a live event. In fact, the process began a few days before the race. I knew my starting point would be great photos. So I asked my followers on Twitter where I should shoot from. They duly came back with ideas and one of them asked if I could send small pictures of each location out in my Twitter stream.
I began to see Twitter as a kind of glue that held the various pieces of coverage together, a way of giving a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it was like to be there photographing the event.
Seth's Blog: Warning: The internet is almost full April 29, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentSeth Godin's point about information overload seems well made:
Ten years ago, you had a shot of at least being aware of everything that mattered. Five years ago, you had to be really selective about what you took in, but at least it was possible to know what you didn't know. Today, it's impossible. Today, you can't even read every article on a thin slice of a thin topic.
You can't keep up with the status of your friends on the social networks. No way. You can't read every important blog… you can't even read all the blogs that tell you what the important blogs are saying.
Used to be, you could finish reading your email, hit "check email" and nothing new would show up. Now, of course, the new mail is probably a longer list than the mail you just finished processing.
The internet isn't full, but we are.
Poynter Online – New York Times' Policy on Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites February 27, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentNYT takes a cautious line on the potential risks:
"Be careful not to write anything on a blog or a personal Web page that you could not write in The Times — don't editorialize, for instance, if you work for the News Department.
Anything you post online can and might be publicly disseminated, and can be twisted to be used against you by those who wish you or The Times ill — whether it's text, photographs, or video. That includes things you recommend on TimesPeople or articles you post to Facebook and Digg, content you share with friends on MySpace, and articles you recommend through TimesPeople. It can also include things posted by outside parties to your Facebook page, so keep an eye on what appears there.
Just remember that we are always under scrutiny by magnifying glass and that the possibilities of digital distortion are virtually unlimited, so always ask yourself, could this be deliberately misconstrued or misunderstood by somebody who wants to make me look bad?"
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network « January 15, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , 1 comment so farAdvice on using social media to get work — Robert Scoble offers 19 points, starting with these three (more in comments, too):??"1. Your blog is your resume. You need one and it needs to have 100 posts on it about what you want to be known for.?
2. Remove all LOLCats from your blog.
?3. Remove all friends from your facebook and twitter accounts that will embarrass you. We do look. If we see photos of people getting drunk with you that is a bad sign. Get rid of them. They will NOT help you get a job."
The next big thing is not the semantic web – it's sensors and robots — edublogs October 17, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentEwan McIntosh on one prediction by Paul Saffo, who says we need to look two times the distance back to forecast the future:
"The next big thing is not the semantic web – it's sensors and robots
1950s TV – Broadcast
1980s Time-sharing – Email
1990s Cient sharing – WWW
2000 P2P – Napster
2010 Sensors – Smartifacts
[…]
The indicators are already in place, though I think we're probably missing it for the immediate ideas and opportunity that the web is offering in 2008.
We're moving from TV to the web, from the living room to everywhere, from watching and consuming to participating and creating, from few and large organisations to many and small individuals. […]
One forecast is looking a dead cert: the future's looking like one heck of a ride."
Times and Tribune have biggest reach on Twitter October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentNew York Times and Chicago Tribune head the list of most-followed newspaper accounts.
"Erica Smith’s impressive list of newspapers that use Twitter includes an snapshot of the most followed newspaper accounts. Running that list through the newish twInfluence site shows that organizations can reach a large number of Twitterers even with a small number of followers."
New media 'have little impact' on journalism in Algeria October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a comment"The new multimedia tools (blogs, Facebook, Dailymotion…) don't seem to have posed much of a threat to traditional media in Algeria. At least not according to Fayçal Métaoui, former editor-in-chief of the El Watan daily and manager of the paper's website. The high cost of computers, electricity, and high speed connections are just some of the reasons for this, says Métaoui."
Which social media tools are most useful to journalists? October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentDigital strategist Amy Webb in the Knight Foundation newsletter:
"… I challenge anyone to prove that the future of journalism won't somehow involve mobile technology. My company is currently researching a number of mobile tools that would use GPS and other location-based services to target information that can be used on the fly. Yes, it's great to know what crime is happening in my neighborhood or which local bar is renewing its liquor license. But what if I'm in someone else's neighborhood? What if there's a fire burning nearby? A bad traffic accident up the road?
[…] what if my mobile phone had an application that pinpointed exactly where I was on a map, and then delivered the most recent news on subjects that I preferenced? It would be a hyper-sensitive aggregator of everything that I cared about that could dynamically update and change, based on my location. This would be useful to journalists… news organizations …and to consumers who want to be more civically engaged."
Web 2.0: Chronicle of a death foretold | Media Money October 12, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentCrunch time is coming for Web2.0 companies, says Peter Kirwan:
"The business models underpinning social media and user-generated content are in big, big trouble.
Funding is drying up. The space available for experimentation in media planning is closing down rapidly. The cult of free looks decidedly vulnerable. […]
Suddenly, and rather miraculously, ad-funded web sites are becoming unfashionable. Paid content? It’s the new black. As one VC puts it: “Free is over; I am only interested in investing in services that customers pay for.”[…]
Welcome to the future. The breaking of web 2.0 will look a bit like the dot com crash of 2000 — only this time, everyone will be scared."
Technology Review: Blogs: Jason Pontin's blog: Authenticity in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility October 9, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentThe Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review ponders his professional persona as presented through his use of social media (introducing two contributions on this theme):
"Social-media Jason Pontin, in short, is a function of my business life. I know that this identity is inauthentic, because there is so much about which I do not post or blog. Do other habitual users of social media, whose social identities are as carefully constructed to attract attention, but who blog and post about everything (and thus feel no alienation), not know that those identities are inauthentic?"