OJR: Q&A with ‘personalised’ news service TwitterTim.es

Writing on the Online Journalism Review, Eric Ulken profiles TwitterTim.es, a new service that uses Twitter feeds to created personalised ‘newspapers’.

Maxim Grinev (@maxgrinev) from TwitterTim.es said: “We look at the tweets that your friends send, and also tweets that friends of your friends send. So, first circle and second circle. And then we extract links from those tweets. Usually links are shortened, so we get the long versions. Then we group by links and calculate how many times each link is posted by your friends and friends of friends to built your personalized ‘newspaper’.”

Full post at this link…

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JLPF: Tweets from the Digital Editors Network and Journalism Leaders Forum

@journalism_live, amongst others, will be tweeting coverage from today’s Digital Editors Network event and Journalism Leaders Programme Forum hosted by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN).

There’s a great line-up, including BBC business editor Robert Peston, Guardian blogs editor Kevin Anderson and former LA Times interactive editor Eric Ulken.

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Ulken.com: Exploring data at the New York Times

As part of his newsroom tour, Eric Ulken visits the New York Times to discuss data, programmer-journalists and newsroom organisation with the Times’ Aron Pilhofer. Full story…

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Eric Ulken’s next assignment: the online world, from around the world

The LA Times interactive technology editor Eric Ulken is off to trot the globe, after ten years working in newspapers.

“Now I hope to effect change from the outside”, he writes.

“Earlier this month, I left my job as interactive technology editor at the Los Angeles Times to travel and learn and share stories about the great work taking place in online journalism around the world. I love the Times, my work and my colleagues, but I’ve decided it’s time to try something new: reporting.”

Read about his plans on his blog.

Come visit Journalism.co.uk in Brighton, Eric!

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