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social networking

09.28.08

Sunday levity social networking, twitter | (0)
You're no one if you're not on Twitter. Courtesy of 10,000 Words.Net.
05.06.08

NY Times puts out the call for help on Myanmar cyclone disaster new media, social networking | (0)
With the death toll in Myanmar rising following the cyclone that devastated the area, the NY Times used its blog, 'The Lede', to put out the call for help covering the disaster. They asked for first-hand accounts, photos and even have a submission form for video. Twelve hours later they had vivid descriptions of the devastation and pictures to accentuate those descriptions. Below is an account from Henry Webb, a lawyer from the U.S. that teaches in Vietnam: About 3 a.m., when we were about 40 or 50 miles outside of Yangon, we started seeing the first trees and signs that had ...
04.30.08

Facebook, in real life journalism, social networking, video | (0)
Disturbingly accurate and very funny. Via British sketch comedy collective Idiots of Ants.
04.24.08

Facebook chat makes FB even more useful for journalists social networking, technology | (0)
You may or may not have noticed that social networking site Facebook recently launched its online, real-time chat service. The beauty of it is, much like Gmail chat, it is integrated into your Facebook front end with nothing to install and no changes to make. You can disable it, but it's an opt-out feature rather than an opt-in. Your "buddy list" is populated by your friends as they sign in and out of Facebook. You send them messages just like a third-party chatting client and they respond. Easy as cake (though it is a lie). What can this do for (online) journalists? While ...