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Reading the news in France.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic
what it feels like to run a social account for a news org.
Posted on Thursday, March 28th 2013
Reblogged from National Geographic Found
HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY, TWITTER!
Its sort of like blogging and sort of like IM’ing, and sort of like that ancient medium, the telegraph.
Newsweek, April 9, 2007
We love Tumblr too!
Aw, that’s cute.
While more Democrats tend to find social networks important for political activity, people don’t seem to be posting much political content on their social networks. According to latest Pew Internet & American Life report on politics and social:
The vast majority of SNS users (84%) say they have posted little or nothing related to politics in their recent status updates, comments, and links. Only 6% of these users say that most or all of what they posted recently on social networking sites is related to politics, issues, or the 2012 campaign. Another 10% say some of what they have recently posted has been about politics.
Again, social seems to be more important for journalists and politicos — IE the politibubble — than others.
Posted on Tuesday, September 4th 2012
Source pewinternet.org
Tumblr gem of the day: Is Twitter Wrong?
Posted on Tuesday, August 14th 2012
“As betaworks and Digg both announced on their blogs, we are taking over Digg and turning it back into a startup. What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks.”
Posted on Friday, July 20th 2012
Reblogged from Digg Blog
HUFFPOST TECH: What Facebook Wants With Your Face
Prepare for Facebook to be a whole lot more in your face.
Facebook announced Monday that it will acquire facial recognition firm Face.com, an Israeli company that has worked with the social network for nearly two years to identify and tag people in uploaded photos.
Integrating Face.com’s…
How valuable is your face?
Posted on Tuesday, June 19th 2012
Reblogged from HUFFPOST TECH
“It’s not about fame. Fame is a lot of people caring about you a little. What Amanda has is something different. It’s a few people caring about her a lot.”
Posted on Tuesday, June 5th 2012
Source 
@Klout ranks top political influencers on twitter in G20 countries, and @TheFix and @EzraKlein make the U.S. Top 10 list. Pretty cool.
Posted on Monday, April 16th 2012
SXSW: 'Pinterest Explained: Q&A w/ Co-Founder Ben Silbermann
On copyright issues, Silbermann said “every Internet service that gets big has questions about copyright.” Silbermann says they have a notification system for copyright violations, and they will take photos down. He said the mission of the site is to drive traffic out.
Posted on Tuesday, March 13th 2012
Reblogged from RobQuig
Twitter Quietly Rolls Out New Timeline (by pinglioTV)
Do you like?
Posted on Wednesday, October 26th 2011
Reblogged from Soup
It looks as if @washingtonpost likes front pages and outer space: our “user gallery,” Twitter’s latest enhanced photo features. (via @RajuNarisetti)
Posted on Tuesday, August 23rd 2011
We want you! Washington Post seeks social media editor. Details »
Posted on Tuesday, August 16th 2011
London, Egypt and the nature of social media via @rameshmedia
By being so quick to blame social media for political and social unrest, we ignore the powerful economic and political grievances that drive discontent. With or without these technologies, people will ultimately stand up and speak their minds. If we continue to focus on technologies rather than peoples, we risk ignoring the source of their grievances and the more complex, organic networks by which they choose to communicate.
Posted on Thursday, August 11th 2011
BreakingNews teams up with Storify: We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Storify to bring our real-time curation to the social storytelling tool. Storify enables users to build their own social media stories with embedded tweets, YouTube clips, Facebook updates, Flickr photos and more. You can now select BreakingNews.com as a source on Storify to add breaking tweets, photos and videos that we discover from hundreds of news organizations and eyewitnesses around the world.
BreakingNews.com is also the first site to add “Storify” buttons – click it under a tweet, for example, and you can import it straight into Storify. Nifty.
Since BreakingNews is often the first to discover and verify breaking photos and videos shared on social media, our partnership with Storify provides a real-time resource for the tens of thousands of journalists using the tool. For example, during the Norway bombing and shooting, BreakingNews.com posted 155 updates on the story in 24 hours, ranging from YouTube videos and Twitpics to translated updates from Norwegian news organizations. Our agnostic curation is now available on Storify – just make sure you’ve added BreakingNews as a source in your Storify settings.
While @breakingnews on Twitter features 30-40 updates a day, we’re sending the full firehose of BreakingNews.com curation to Storify. Our editorial team is staffed 24/7, so the BreakingNews feed is always updated. Please let us what you think, and our thanks to Storify’s Burt Herman and Xavier Damman for working with us!
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