One of the shortcomings of Twitter is that it can be find to hard to find people — even people that you’re following — when you don’t have their Twitter ID right smack in front of your nose. Sure, you can go hunting and pecking in TweetDeck, or do a Google or Twitter people search, […]
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Using Twitter at the Chicago Tribune
I‘ve been arguing for some time that journalists need to embrace the best elements of social media — going beyond the new media and multimedia elements of the craft developed over the past 15 years to develop a true conversation about the news with members of their communities. In the past few weeks I’ve begun […]
Photo Finder will find you wherever you are
The Facebook photos application has been by far Facebook’s biggest success: The easy to use interface for uploading pics from your computer and then brilliant point-and-click tagging of friends has proved intensely viral. There are now more than 15 billion photos on Facebook, making it the largest collection of pictures in human history. More than 850 million […]
Social media: bringing sexy back
I just returned from a week of conferences. I started up at SearchFest in Portland, OR (put on by the dominators of search—SEMpdx) and ended in Austin, TX where I partook in both the PubCon and SXSW festivities. Let me just say…I am tired. What is it about us geeky types? Put all of us […]
Social media and a school death threat
How Twitterers acted to head off tragedy in St. Louis I just heard a fascinating story that speaks to how the community is tapping into social media on life-and-death matters — in this case, a bomb threat at a high school. Let me tell it to you. Short version: Tuesday night a history graduate student […]