Category Archives: Social Networking
Pew releases its ‘Millenials’ report
Pew Research released its report on the “Millenial” generation today. I’ve downloaded it (you can too) and I look forward to reading it and commenting on it tonight.
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Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore
I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t supposed to respond to public comments about and critiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbitrary rules that somebody thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
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A third as prolific as Twitter seems to think
In case you were checking up on me, my Twitter account is one of many affected by a bug that somehow multiplied our tweet counts by a factor of roughly three. I have not tweeted more than 11,300 times, but if you want to think of me as being that prolific, be my guest.
Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments.
This was among them:
My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the paper have [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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