Tag Archives: twitter
Architecture of Participation
In proper Web 2.0 style DCU Journalism student and fellow tweeter (as well as fellow BCFE alumnus) @cianginty is compiling a great list of Irish student journalists and media who tweet. I wont steal his links by quoting his text but I will just mention the two Twitter lists he has created here (of Journalists) [...]
Live Articles/Dead Weight?
Fashionably late to the party March 18th saw the launch of CNN’s “This Just In” news blog site. Responding to the recent trend for ‘real-time‘ content mainstream media organisations have been developing such news blog sites to report breaking and rolling news stories as “live articles/blogs”. With a mix of informal language, citizen journalist as [...]
Iceland Volcanic Ash [Live Article]
just noticed the car is covered in a fine black dust #ashtag #iceland 3:42 PM Reactions from across Europe to the Iceland volcano, via BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/cSI6uw #ashtag 1:33 PM Will the Iceland Volcano Change the Climate? | LiveScience http://su.pr/2sKuRQ 1:17 PM Apparently John Cleese is stuck in Norway, poor guy #iceland #ashtag http://nyti.ms/9bFDVY (video [...]
Drinking from Niagara Falls
A short one but The Guardian’s Kevin Anderson has an interesting piece on the “tools of the trade” for online journalists. According to Mr Anderson The internet is not like trying to drink from a firehose but rather like trying to drink from Niagara Falls. For any media professional trying to remain up to speed [...]
Twitter Lists Big Secret
With hits to the social networking site apparently flat-lining the developers at Twitter are keeping busy with secret additions to their new List feature. Scouring the code this author has discovered that Twitter has plans to allow its users to directly add “people, businesses or brands” to their lists via a search box on their [...]
Google Waving not Drowning
What would email look like if we set out to invent it today Wave and Drowning They claim it will revolutionise personal communication, they say it will change how we arrange our lives but Wave, Google’s latest web app, mightn’t be as ground-breaking as Google say. Getting a Google Wave account is a difficult thing. [...]
Freedom of Tweets
“There is no news tonight” reported the BBC one April evening in 1930. History repeated itself in 2009 when the Guardian told its readers of a story it couldn’t report. In what the editor of the Guardian described as “a fantastic own goal” the oil trading company Trafigura managed to obtain a so-called “super injunction” [...]
Mashing my Thesis
“by 2010…(Mashups) will be the dominant model (80%) for the creation of new enterprise applications ” (Rust 2008) A few people have been asking me about my Multimedia Undergrad thesis so I thought I’d just take a few minutes to go over what we did. Mashup For my thesis myself and a few friends set [...]
Rail Fail
Just a short post this week. It’s almost second nature at this point, when we hear of a news story breaking, to run the nearest media outlet to get the latest updates. Indeed when Michael Jackson died in June the torrent of users who rushed online caused several big name websites, including Google, CNN and [...]
No, Teens Don’t Tweet but it doesn’t mean they’re not involved.
Neilsen Wire, the media and marketing information company, set the twitosphere alight this week when it announced that Twitter, despite is impressive growth, has failed to attract Teens. The Neilsen survey of 250,000 Internet users in the States showed that only 16% of under 25 year olds actively use the Twitter website; with the majority [...]
