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Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media

The platforms undoubtedly need to do more to deal with the toxic environment on social media. But it's worth considering our own role in stoking that febrile atmosphere.

Social media is becoming just plain old media - and that's a loss

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Social media is becoming just plain old media - and that's a loss

What has killed social media? Vanity: At some point in the not so distant past, we knowledge (Web) workers decided to, collectively, kill one of the most profound and deep

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The aviation debate

Eric Holthaus wrote a piece for Quartz, explaining his Damascene conversion in San Fransisco airport, and his decision to quit flying: So I guess last week’s report hit me harder than I expected. My profession is meteorology, which is all about data, but

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Thatcher: social media, tribes and hatred

Margaret Thatcher has rather annoyed me this evening, and that’s not something I’ve been able to say for decades. I hate feeling obligated to write about something on my blog, you see, and by having the sheer, stark lack of consideration to

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Twitter account ownership, logic lessons and what the BBC really lost

So, earlier in the week, the world and her husband tweeted and linked this piece, suggesting that the BBC had lost, lost I say, 60,000 followers because Laura Kuenssberg took her Twitter account with her to ITV. The horror. And the predictable warfare

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Quote of the Day #1

God spare us from people who think conversations have “winners” and “losers”. < p align=”right”>- Shane Richmond in response to a comment on his post about Apple subscriptions.

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The Dangers of Web Neophilia

My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my

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#TEDxTuttle : Ben Walker on Twitter(ish)

[![Ben Walker](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/benmatthews-thumb-500x333-1432.jpg?resize=500%2C333)](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/benmatthews.jpg)[Ben Walker](http://ihatemornings.com/) is doing such an amusing presentation on Twitter

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The Hole in the “Twitter is Inane” Argument

Good piece of analysis from danah: Twitter – like many emergent genres of social media – is structured around networks of people interacting with people they know or find interesting. Those who are truly performing to broad audiences (e.g., “celebs”, corporations, news entities, and high-profile

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The 3 Minute Guide to Social Media

This is an excellent summary of why you should care about social media: *(Warning: implied profanity throughout)*[What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later](http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later "What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later")View

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Blogging Editorial Conferences

An e-mail dropped into my inbox last week, encouraging me to have a peek at FT Arena, a blog on the Financial Times site that allows readers to join in a debate on the editorial before it’s published. Karl is fond of sharing

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Links: The Community Conversation

So, back in the office. First proper day back at work, and despite a few of last year’s niggle raising their heads again, I’m still pretty positive about the year ahead – and looking forward to some new challenges that are on the

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Morning Coffee Reading - 6/1/09

Things noted in my RSS reading in the last few days: - [H](http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2008/no4_richmond) [ow SEO is changing journalism](http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2008/no4_richmond) – I’m late to this one, but it’

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If Blogging is Conversation...

Why I love blogging, summed up in one sentence: “In conversation we think out loud together, trying to understand.” – Dave Weinberger, *[Everything Is Miscellaneous](http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0805088113?ie=UTF8&tag=fishnefedora-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0805088113)

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Breaking Bloggers Block

The one time I really struggle with blogging is when I’ve stopped doing it for a bit. A few weeks ago, I took a week off. And I ended up almost completely disconnecting from social media for that week. I used my computer