Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - check out if your Twitter friendships are mutual

Twitter: lost track of who you're following and who's following you? My Tweeple lets you see what's what and take action on 'lurkers' and spammers. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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Publishing 2.0: Newsrooms can grow Twitter followings with links

Newsrooms should use Twitter accounts to link out to interesting online content and not just back to their own sites, says Scott Karp on the Publishing 2.0 blog. "This is a perfect example of how mainstream news orgs got so far behind on the web — they see the web as just another distribution channel for their own content. Open the chute and shovel the content in." Full story...

Tags: Linking, Scott Karp, Twitter

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Twitter-quette: how do you want J.co.uk to cover events?

There’s been quite a lot of discussion about how to behave on Twitter lately. Last week @charlesarthur said it was all about the links and got a few conflicting comments below his blog post about how to be interesting (or not) on Twitter.

Earlier in the week, one of @journalismnews followers said they didn’t like too many Tweets from an event, without prior warning.

So, over to you our lovely followers … Do you think we should have a specific events Twitter name for all events, or specific ones for each event we attend, which we’ll publicise the name for from  @journalismnews?

Tweet back, or drop us a comment below.

Tags: blogging, blogs, Charles Arthur, Tweet, Twitter

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - video and images for Twitter

Social Media: Twitter isn't just for text messages - Tweetr reader allows you to send files up to 10MB through Twitter and TwitPic allows you to send images from your phone. Twiddeo allows you to do the same with video. Tipster: Oliver Luft To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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Grauniad.co.uk v Torygraph.co.uk: Round 374

We’ve been following the various Telegraph/Guardian online interactions this week:

Yesterday, Roy Greenslade published an anonymous email from a Telegraph hack, who wrote that he/she was more than a little bit fed up.  The gist of the email was that all this multimedia-ised hub-it-up lark is to the detriment of a good, healthy working life and quality journalism.

Greenslade cautiously said he was printing the letter but that he didn’t necessarily agree with its sentiment.

Over at CounterValues, Telegraph assistant editor Justin Williams was quick to pooh pooh it. And now Greenslade has put up his response to the letter – a more negative stance this time: ‘the past is another country, think positive,’ he tells his ‘emailing friend’.

Meanwhile, in another post, Williams took a swipe at the Guardian’s system of buying sponsored links and keywords. He reckons their buying is well in excess of the Telegraph’s and the Times’.

In the comments below the post, Charles Arthur, the Guardian’s technology editor, asks how many subsidised paper subscriptions the Telegraph has: ‘Is [buying sponsored links and keywords] a worse or better investment than subsidising paper subscriptions, do you think?’, he writes.

Charles Arthur is a keen Twitterer and I’ve just located Justin Williams on Twitter; all that Tweeting in agreement can be a bit boring: how about getting the discussion going in Twitterland? It’s a shame this didn’t get going earlier, with it being (unofficial?) ’speak like a pirate day’ - that would make it fun.

Can’t wait for next week’s ABCes…

Tags: blogging, Charles Arthur, Justin Williams, Roy Greenslade, seo, The Guardian, the Telegraph, The Times, Twitter

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The Latest Word: Rocky Mountain News cancels second funeral Twitter

The Rocky Mountain News has withdrawn plans to cover a second funeral using microblogging service Twitter. The decision comes after the paper received widespread criticism for sending a reporter to 'tweet' from the funeral of a three-year-old road accident victim. Full story...

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Tweeted debate: does it have any significance for democracy?

So, the first tweeted presidential debate. This week the AP reported that Current TV will let its audience have their say by publishing their live Twitter comments on screen; now the news is doing the rounds on the blogs.

During the debates, the station will broadcast Twitter messages (or tweets) from viewers as John McCain and Barack Obama go head to head.

It’s all certainly a lot further on than when the first ever debate went out on television: on September 1960 26, when 70 million US viewers watched senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts word-battle vice president Richard Nixon.

Current TV, which is extremely pro viewer interaction, was actually co-founded by Al Gore, though the channel says ‘Hack the Debate’, as it has become known, was not his idea.

An article over at the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) says, of the Nixon-Kennedy debate, “Perhaps as no other single event, the Great Debates forced us to ponder the role of television in democratic life.”

So, does Twittering and instantaneous (as much as it can be) viewer feedback have anything like the same significance? What’s the role of the internet here in democratic life?

Also, comments will be filtered to fit in with broadcast standards: does this change its impact at all?

Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, blogging, blogs, John Kennedy, John McCain, Massachusetts, Museum of Broadcast Communications, presidential debate, Richard Nixon, tweets, Twitter, United States, USA

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - keeping your personal and work separate online

Social media: Are you a Twitter user and want to keep your work and personal life separate? Set up two accounts and redirect your followers accordingly. You can manage both at the same time using an application like Twhirl. Tipster: Laura Oliver To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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When Twitter goes bad: newspaper tweets a funeral

US newspaper The Rocky Mountain News has come under scrutiny for its use of microblogging tool Twitter.

The paper has been using the service to provide news alerts with its @The Rocky account, but recently experimented with an individual reporter twittering from the funeral of a 3-year-old.

“Rocky reporter Berny Morson filed live updates from the memorial service of 3-year-old Marten Kudlis. The messages are unedited,” reads the editor’s note accompanying the article on the death of Marten Kudlis, who was killed in a car crash last week.

Michael Roberts at the Latest Word blog points out that the updates are ’self-satirizing in the most morbid, inappropriate way possible’.

“Morson’s not to blame for the lameness of these entries, which suggest a golfing commentator whispering at green-side while Tiger Woods lines up a putt.”

Questions have been raised about the appropriateness of Twitter coverage before, but usually centring on its suitability as a medium for coverage e.g. does the event require frequent updates or can it wait? Covering a funeral - that’s proprierty gone AWOL.

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BBC dot.life blog: Rory Cellan-Jones experiments with Twitter, Qik and Flip

The BBC's technology correspondent describes his experience of using the tools to cover an Apple music event. Full story...

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