Insight about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The former news social media mainstay once described as "microblogging", and now better known as "that hell site", is in the midst of some dramatic changes. .
burgers
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/10/3721f2083b87418982eb6acae0758875_7.jpg] …here are some links to distract you. - [Getting “digital first” right in the “newsroom”](http://www.yelvington.com/content/getting-digital-first-right-newsroom) – a nice, detailed look at why this is a more complex idea than many people
marketing
From Dan Frommer’s progress report three months into his excellent SplatF [http://www.splatf.com/2011/10/month-three/] blog: > Top traffic referrers include Techmeme, Twitter, and Daring Fireball. I’ll probably write about this in more depth someday, but it’s amazing how much Twitter influences how someone
BBC
Laura Kuenssberg makes the case of why she can take her Twitter followers with her.
Journalism
Can you tweet faster than an earthquake travels? Twitter thinks so: Here’s Twitter traffic mentioning earthquakes in the 12 minutes after the quake: I wonder how many news outlets had information up on their site within 12 minutes?
community
blackberry
Mike Butcher, writing on TechCrunch UK [http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/how-blackberry-not-twitter-fuelled-the-fire-under-londons-riots/] : > Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts of
books
Stuff crossing my information superhighway radar this morning: * Seven books that journalists working online should read [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/08/03/7-books-that-every-journalist-working-online-should-read/] – up to 9, with recommendations in the comments * How I tracked down an entire family from one tweet [http://www.joannageary.com/2011/08/02/privacy-and-social-media-investigation-how-i-tracked-down-an-entire-family-from-one-tweet/] – Joanna
change management
Love this article, as tweeted [https://twitter.com/ksablan/status/98447987285573633] by Kevin Sablan: > Unless a once-in-a-lifetime story is breaking in your community, the most urgent challenge facing every news organization today is making a swift and successful transformation to the digital future. Leading that transition is every editor’
BBC
Did Laura Kuenssberg take 60,000 followers away from the BBC?
comments
The observant will have noticed that I’ve been using Disqus [http://disqus.com/] as the comment service on this blog for the last few months, and I’ve been very happy with it. The ability to manage via e-mail is a boon, and the spam blocking is superb. I
Claire Wardle is running a “pulling together” session. Key points so far: Verification: * Do we need to get more comfortable with saying that things are unverified * Is it irresponsible to just push things out, knowing people won’y come back to check things later. * More training needed on how to
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Can search get more social? Bing's Ralf Herbrich thinks so.