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"In his latest column for The New York Times Magazine, Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, likens clearing the way for his 13-year-old daughter to join Facebook to handing her “a pipe of crystal meth.”
I can’t say I have ever tried crystal meth, but I do visit social networks on a regular basis. Twitter, which Mr. Keller says he believes could make us “stupid,” has become an irreplaceable part of my daily life; it augments how I report stories, socialize with friends and share and consume everything from store coupons to breaking news."
"Automatically collected tweets related to online newspaper articles. The Twitter feeds that most people are acquainted with are static, labor intensive, and unsorted. They are based on manually entered keywords and simple Twitter search is carried out without relevance ranking. With Crowdynews, the shortcomings of such typical solutions now belong to the past."
"As of two weeks ago, our primary Twitter feeds, @connect2mason, @GMUStudentMedia and @FairfaxVANews, have launched sponsored tweets. This is our first month and we are continually seeking to fine-tune the process. We’ve already received some feedback and we want to explain what’s going on—and why—in more than 140 characters."
Apparently, the "is blogging journalism?" question is dead, now it's "Is tweeting journalism?"
"I believe there is an ever-increasing need for accuracy and accountability in how we as journalists use social media. This inspired me to start my own accuracy checklist for the TBD staff, but I thought it may be better to share with a larger audience. Feel free to add your notes and additions in the comments. I consider this a work in progress."
"For a private individual using Twitter, it might make sense to delete a message that you later discovered was in error. But for anyone tweeting as part of a professional media job, representing a news organization on Twitter, or using Twitter to do journalism independently, the course here ought to be plain: It’s almost always better to correct than to unpublish. Removing information you’ve already disseminated — sometimes called “scrubbing” — always leaves open the possibility that you’re trying to hide the error or pretend it never happened."
"So we ask: is deleting a tweet after the fact a lack of transparency, especially if any subsequent tweets don’t admit the error? Is a news organization obliged to tweet that it was wrong? Does the retweet function make such actions moot? We strongly believe in transparency, as do many of you. But whether deleting tweets is a responsibility or not, and whether a news organization must tweet that it was wrong, should lead to serious discussions in all newsrooms."
Via Will Sullivan, a newspaper that gets twittering, big time.
Howard Rheingold's delicious for a class - lots of twitter info here.
Matt Waite explains why automated twitter feeds are not a good thing. Be human.
Patrick Thornton explains how Twitter can be a legitimate reporting tool.
Paul Bradshaw with a useful list, although I'd rank them differently.
You knew it had to happen. Sam Bayard of the Citizen Media Law Project ponders the implications.
Via Will Sullivan, an interesting twitter client for the cube-farmers.
American Journalism Review covers some new-fangled Intertube phenomenon called "Twitter." Next month, I think they're covering GeoCities.
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