San Francisco’s five year anniversary protest against the war in Iraq yesterday reportedly was smart, rather than angry like five years ago. Major factor was Twitter!..
San Francisco Protesters Against Iraq War Use Twitter For Smart Rallying
Posted by on March 20th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news · 0 CommentsSpotted: How To Make Your Own Twitter Newsfeed
Posted by on March 19th, 2008 in Twitter ideology · 0 CommentsNews corporations are very slow on embedding new media gimmicks in their content, but what they are good at is churning out their news stories on Twitter…
UK Privacy Advocates Object To New Ad Agency That Secretly Collects Behavioral Web Browsing Data
Posted by on March 19th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news · 0 CommentsA new UK advertising service called Phorm has triggered a controversy over online privacy because it plans to roll out highly targeted ads based on users´ surfing habits…
Facebook To Launch Improved Privacy Controls Today
Posted by on March 19th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 0 CommentsFacebook today is set to roll out better privacy controls. It is also reportedly going to include a chatservice in the next two weeks…
NYT Journalist Takes Camera To Streets Of Baghdad, Asks Iraqis Questions Sourced By Readers
Posted by on March 18th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 0 CommentsEric Owles, a New York Times journalist writing the Inside Iraq blog, started conducting a new style reporting by asking NYT readers to submit questions for Iraqi citizens…
TV Finds New Ways To Reach Audiences - It’s All In The Packaging
Posted by on March 18th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 0 CommentsTelevision is paving the way for change of established corporations’ approaches to new demands by internet-serviced audiences…
Survey: Journalism’s Main Threat Is No Longer Quality, But Financing
Posted by on March 18th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 0 CommentsA survey by Pew Research Center has found that US journalism’s top problem these days is finance…
DailyKos Writers Leave Over Hillary Bashing
Posted by on March 17th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 1 CommentDaily Kos is one of my favorite sites because of the abundance of instant replies you get to questions…
Wonder How come Your Mobile Phone Can’t Seem To Spell The F-Word?
Posted by on March 14th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 0 CommentsIf you’re a frequent Texter you’re familiar with predictive (T9) spelling…
Business Journalist Sarah Lacy Defends Riotous Zuckerberg Interview In BusinessWeek
Posted by on March 14th, 2008 in grassroots reporting news and reporTwitter · 0 CommentsSarah Lacy’s controversial interview with Mark Zuckerberg during the SXSW technology/music conference has been broadly measured out in the media…