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. .
…and the panel seem to be talking around it rather than at it. And we’re on to mobile instead.And Scott has twittered a picture of us all. The excitement.Nuria Garrido from BA (@ng01): Social media gives you the revenue potential. You can’t segment your audience on
crowd-sourced journalism
And that’s the key thing to understand about these distributed, mass publication media. They are not inherently good or bad. They are not a force for good or evil, but merely a vehicle in which the voices of the many can be raised for or against something, and, if
X (Twitter)
A gagging order designed to target mainstream news titles has been undone by the concerted efforts of Twitter users.
anti-social media
I’m Paid Content: UK’s Tweet of the Week [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-tweet-of-the-week-rbis-adam-tinworth-on-social-media/] . Go me. Microfame at last. 🙂
comments
This cropped up in a post aboutthe latest improvements to Typepad [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/movin-on-up-typepad-news-and-release-notes.html] : > Improved comment experience > [![Comment-form-icons-typepad]( "Comment-form-icons-typepad")](http://everything.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c82369e20120a5d7c8a1970c-pi) > Based on some impressive performance on the beta blogs, we have added a few
[](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 that I almost forget I should
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/brandnew-1420.html] As well as trundling off to [Twestival](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/09/london_twestival_2009.html) last Thursday, I also stuck my head around the door of the [BrandNew](http://brandnewlondon.wordpress.com/) launch event, and jolly interesting
Blogging
I’ve been tweeting since late 2006, and I’m pretty happy with how Twitter fits into my overall publishing stream. It’s an important part of it, as a quick glance at my Activity Stream [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/everywhere/] will demonstrate, but it’s not the be-all-and-end-all of
london
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/3910080716_d22272e928.jpg] I had an absolute blast at the [London Twestival](http://london.twestival.com/) last night. Great event.You can get a flavour of it from [my photos on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/sets/
geotagging
A good idea in publishing: Geolocation information in Twitter [http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html], and here’s why it’s a good idea [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/08/20/geotwitter-and-news-and-more/]. A bad idea in publishing: Tracking scripts in content [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/what-the-associated-press-tracking-beacon-is-and-what-it-isnt/
Blogging
This video has been making the rounds of the company this morning: The pleasing thing is that it wasn’t me that started it, as it would have been 6 months ago. The times, they are a’changing…
ambient intimacy
Good piece of analysis from danah [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/16/twitter_pointle.html]: > 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.
