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…My heart’s in Accra » Twitter.org? and building models for social media
Ethan is right on, as his habit
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I observed earlier this year that the internet is helping us realize that the value of an ad impression is much, much lower than we believed they were in the age of newspapers. Clay Shirky has sharpened that argument and used it to make the case that newspapers will fail as a model before we’re able to invent a sufficient alternative.
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I’d broaden that argument somewhat – services like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as critical pieces of social infrastructure. It may be worth thinking of them as public goods. We know a lot of different ways to provision public goods – states maintain them using taxation, private entities build them and charge access fees, communities build them and rely on user support, NGOs provide services and use a hybrid of user fees, donations and foundation support. I don’t think it’s crazy to think that this might be how we choose to build social networks in the future… or perhaps if any of the tools we rely on becomes less reliable.
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…My heart’s in Accra » When coverage outpaces interest – can statistics show us when the press is trying to lead readers to a story?
US Public interest in Iran elections created by the media
Talking social media and politics with Ethan Zuckerman | Net Effect
Ethan vs Evgeny. Heheh. Fun. My experience with Evgeny is that he thinks common people making their own opinion is usually not the best scenario (to put it mildly). A bit on Egypt towards the end.
…My heart’s in Accra » Twitter and the news cycle, perfect together
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What’s really interesting to me is the extent to which news reporters seem to have chosen Twitter as the go-to source for reactions to news events. It makes sense - there’s a premium in the news business on speed, on having a story faster than anyone else does, so the need for the quick quote makes Google hours to slow to help you. And the 140 character limit guarantees that whoever you quote will be pithy and limited to a single soundbite.
This, in turn, also increases the chance that you’ll be wrong. A proper quote from me would probably have been something like: “The search string ‘Michael Jackson’ is getting intense interest on Twitter at the moment, showing up in between 13-20% of tweets. It’s unlikely this level of intensity will continue through the night, but at the moment, it exceeds the intensity I’ve seen on Twitter during slower-breaking stories like #swineflu, #pman and #IranElection.” That, unfortunately, is 337 characters - far too long for anyone to read anymore. And a clarification in the form of a blogpost? That’s so 2006.
Harvard launches Media Cloud media analysis site | News | guardian.co.uk
Harvard University academics have created the Media Cloud to analyse media coverage around the world to provide statistics on coverage by topic and country.
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