July 2009
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June 2009
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“And, really, what is more erotic, more personal, more potentially vulnerable than handwriting on a page?”
—The Way We Live Now - The Overextended Family - NYTimes.com
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“Most of the journalists I interviewed tweet openly, acknowledging their professional identity and real name in their personal Twitter page biographies, even if they use an online nickname. Only one locked his account, meaning he had to approve potential followers before they would be able to view his tweets. However, several deliberately withheld the name of their employer to avoid perceived conflicts of interest. But the themes of trust and credibility, honesty and transparency came up constantly as significant features of successful social media engagement and most of the journalists I interviewed had connected the dots. “Because I use Twitter to source content (and) find news tips, I think it’s best to be open about where I’m coming from,” said Gary Kemble, the ABC’s Online Opinion Editor. He’s also responsible for the broadcaster’s @abcnews and @abcarticulate Twitter feeds. The ABC’s national youth affairs correspondent, Michael Turtle agreed. “I think the very nature of Twitter lends itself towards having an open profile and being honest about who you are,” he said. “The power of the site is the ability to connect directly with people and engage in conversations. It wouldn’t be nearly as effective if you chose to do that anonymously.”
—MediaShift . How Journalists Are Using Twitter in Australia | PBS
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And what about the Illustrators of today, who work on computer screens to create elaborate virtual worlds for video games and movies?
These artists won’t be remembered by name; they won’t have the same public forum that Rockwell had on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. They tend to be more anonymous.
” —Championing Illustration: Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director, Norman Rockwell Museum - Out and About
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“In a world where most startups choose gaining users over making money, Animoto is an odd exception: It’s doing both. Since launching in August 2007, the company has signed up some 750,000 users, and some 10% of those are paying customers. And that’s allowed the company to run cash-flow positive since December of last year, CEO Brad Jefferson tells us. And it could keep going on like that, but like most startups that taste success, it wants to do more. So it has raised by far its biggest round of funding to date, a $4.4 million Series B led by Madrona Venture Group. With an already proven business model, Jefferson says the company just wants to accelerate everything it’s doing, and push harder. That means a more diverse roadmap and more importantly, a much broader distribution strategy with more partnerships. One of those partnerships with with iStockphoto, whose founder, Bruce Livingstone, participated in this round.”
—Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11
“After his comments on the panel, Sanchez described to me and others how his email about #CNNFail on Twitter went up to the highest levels of the network. And, after the network’s business, PR and marketing staff was pulled in, coverage the next day shifted.”
—digiphile
The Gift of Good Soil - The New York Times →
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Wonderful story telling.
“Ann Curry cleverly countered, “While I may not be another ‘a pretty face,’ we have to look at whether or not mainstream media is covering the world fast enough and the answer is no.” She then concluded, “Should we be? Yes. But, right now, we can’t keep pace.” She’s right. News media can’t keep pace with the new world of media consumption and the insatiable appetite for information—especially when it has yet to understand the true promise and opportunity that Social Media represents. This isn’t about adapting an existing model to new, popular broadcast channels. It’s about expanding and forcing a fundamental renaissance within the news machine itself—transforming and creating how these media giants can monetize new streams and platforms. Ann also echoed Dorsey’s tenet of approach, “With social media, we can empathize with our subjects in order to see and report on a story truthfully.” Her next statement made us stop and reflect, and earned Curry enthusiastic applause, “My mandate for news teams is that I want them to shoot every story like it’s about their mother, brother, sister, father, and cousin. Tell it that way. That’s the road to clarity, truth, understanding and fully becoming global.” What she is saying celebrates not only the foundation for exceptional journalism, but also the spirit of social media. It’s about real people. It’s about emotion. It’s about empathy. News is global and Twitter is one of the leading social networks that connects us to other human beings through the stories that affect them and us.”
—Is Twitter The CNN Of The New Media Generation?
“You cannot cache any user data you receive from Facebook for more than 24 hours unless doing so is permitted by the offline exception, or that data is explicitly designated below as “storable indefinitely.”
—Storable Data - Facebook Developer Wiki
“One would think, then, that when the idea began to percolate around Twitter that CNN was missing out on a major, historical story like the one developing in Iran, the network would have noted the discontent and done something about it.”
—‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network’s Iran absence | Webware - CNET
