Twitter Election2008 page
October 2, 2008
Twitter is filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the election and a new way for Twitterers to share thoughts.
WNYC launches ‘30 Issues Wiki’
September 22, 2008
As part of a “30 ISSUES” election series, the Brian Lehrer Show is inviting listeners to collaborate on the segments by using a wiki site. Read more »
The 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time
September 17, 2008
This week Nerve published a list of “The 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time.” Read more »
Wired.com’s WikiScanner Coverage Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award
September 10, 2008
Wired.com’s WikiScanner coverage, which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Read more »
Center for Public Integrity launches investigative blog
August 5, 2008
The Center for Public Integrityhas launched a new investigative blog, PaperTrail. Read more »
Cover Olympics for OhMyNews
July 19, 2008
OhmyNews is looking for Citizen Journalists in China or going to Beijing to help cover the Olympics.
Lessons From One Year of Blogging
July 15, 2008
Guest Post by Craig Stolz
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One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully redubbed "social media"]. Read more »
This post was submitted by Craig Stoltz.
Beijing blogger uses community-news site
July 8, 2008
The first journalist connected to The Dallas Morning News in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics is … Lindsay Toler, a University of Missouri student who is chronicling her experience on neighborsgo.com, the citizen-media site of The Morning News. Read more »
This post was submitted by Oscar Martinez.
Blogosphere = a giant wire service
June 25, 2008
Clyde Bentley, a Missouri School of Journalism professor who researches user-generated news, suggested at a Future of News conference that editors should treat the blogosphere like a giant wire service. What a great way of looking at it.
Seven Traits of Highly Effective Community Managers
June 17, 2008
Tish Grier says community managers “should understand people well and be good at creating and maintaining relationships and ability to create relationships, regardless of which tools are available.”