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“The Web basically cuts the middleman out of the picture, and allows the people who were there on the scene to get their story out to a global audience immediately,”
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Shane uses RSS, technorati and generally knows his way around the social software scene. It’s nice to hear how he tried to follow yesterday’s events using those tools – and that he too found the noise to signal ratio high.
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One man + his blog points out that the community nature of livejournal might have been part of what caused the backlash when journalists started looking for Virginia Tech shooting witnesses and victims there.
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“And so the key skills in a newsroom will not be to get reporters to the scene — that will come later, after the news happens — but to have antennae up to listen and find news reports as they happen, as people link to what’s happening.”
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Neighbours in Redditch, Worcestershire, contacted police on Saturday after seeing a man inside a car using a laptop while parked outside a house…A woman was arrested in similar circumstances in the town earlier this month.
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“the [mobilephone] video had no inherent news value and told no story…Those were bullets that killed, maimed and injured students and faculty members… Is this really the type of behavior to applaud, to train citizen journalists to take part in?”
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Mackenzie Carpenter spoke with Bob Steele from Poynter Institute, Mitch Gelman at CNN and myself in this article about how “citizen journalists” covered the Virginia Tech shooting – and whether they’re journalists at all.
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“Measurements based on page-views and cookies (small text files which track net use) could be affected by changing user behaviour, the studies warn.”
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“most reporters writing blogs are doing so because they have to do it; not because they want to do it. As a result, these blogs lack passion and enthusiasm – two critical elements for successful blogs. “
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Chris Vallance’s excellent post discusses some of the issues around victim’s privacy, journalists gaining (?) access to facebook, quoting from blogs that may or may not be meant to be seen publicly, etc.