Hurricane Gustav has and will put Twitter in the spotlight like never before. There’s no better social media tool out there to mass communicate news – and now we have a big story to give it a boost.
CNN has been playing up its Twittering efforts frequently during the storm. CNN’s Rick Sanchez is leading the [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 31, 2008
Twitter, welcome to the mainstream
August 26, 2008
Independent bloggers on an MSM site
Part of my job at the Statesman is to make sure the reader blogging community is thriving. This is no easy task. I’ll explain why in a minute.
First, quick background: The Statesman was one of the first, if not the first sites in the country to host reader blogs on its site (and promote their [...]
August 21, 2008
The Statesman tide floods Twitter
The American-Statesman is all over Twitter. I list a directory of sorts so you know who to follow.
August 20, 2008
Who is missing from Twitter?
Not many corporations or public officials have figured Twitter out yet. It’s probably too early for it to be too late, but it does make me wonder: Who do I wish would get addicted to Twitter? And I mean full-out, real-person, unable-to-do-their-regular-job because-they’re-tweeting-Twittering. I don’t mind the idea of Twitter filling up with corporations. Why? [...]
August 18, 2008
Twittering the news the right way
When I started Twittering as @statesman, I immediately looked around to see how this is being done. Surely, I wasn’t reinventing the wheel, right?
After a quick Google search, I found this blog by Erica Smith that keeps track of newspapers that Twitter. I was surprised to see that many newspapers had a Twitter account. What [...]
August 17, 2008
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
As you all know, it’s not pretty out there for print media. My colleague Erica Smith keeps track of the layoffs in our industry.
Through it all, the Statesman managed to avoid layoffs, buyouts and other ugliness. In fact, it was one of the few papers that had somewhat weathered the storm. [...]
August 17, 2008
Starting to blog again
It has been a long time since I have blogged regularly, but I think the time has come. I Twitter all the time, but it’s time to say some things in >140 characters.
I won’t post things unless they’re useful. I’ll focus mostly on my trade (journalism) but I’ll also post whatever I find amusing.
To catch [...]
