Exciting launch this morning

I’m proud to announce that I’m launching a new blog with Daniel Honigman (@dan360man), who is REALLY good friends with Colonel Tribune.
We’ll focus on journalism and social media. Check it out.
Also, give us a follow on Twitter at @MediaTricks.
Cheers!

Twitter reactions to the debate

This is a repost from my official blog on statesman.com (which I rarely use).
Last night, the presidential debate was the hot topic among TV pundits. It also was the talk on Twitter. Before, during and after the candidates’ second primetime test, people were commenting and sharing opinions on Twitter, a free-to-use microblogging service.
Using our newspaper [...]

Covering the election

We’ve now used Twitter to extensively cover two hurricanes and one Austin City Limits Music Festival. The Next Big Thing is the election. Twitter has done a good job with its Election page, and CNN and NYT will certainly do a great job covering the election.
So, the question is: what can a small metro paper [...]

The Statesman tide floods Twitter

The American-Statesman is all over Twitter. I list a directory of sorts so you know who to follow.

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? [...]

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 [...]