Category Archives: Social Networking

A cooling off period in Bloomington, Ill.

By Michael Becker | Published: January 7, 2010
Okay, this is the wrong way to build a civil com­mu­nity on your newspaper’s Web site. Just before the new year, the staff at the Pentagraph in Bloomington, Ill., decided that the com­ments on its sto­ries were too uncivil, so the paper took its ball and went home: Reader com­ments on Pantagraph.com often are infor­ma­tive, [...]
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There’s no excuse not to link to news sources | Joe Ruiz

By Michael Becker | Published: January 7, 2010
When peo­ple want to know, espe­cially when it comes to break­ing news or severe weather, they want the info. They don’t care where they get it from as long as it’s a source they trust. via joeruiz.net A nice post from Joe Ruiz back in May 2009 about link jour­nal­ism. He advo­cates link­ing directly to the arti­cle you’re [...]
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Why Twitter Will Endure

By Michael Becker | Published: January 2, 2010
At first, Twitter can be over­whelm­ing, but think of it as a river of data rush­ing past that I dip a cup into every once in a while. via nytimes.com David Carr writes that Twitter is more like Internet “plumb­ing” than a fad, a ser­vice with some­thing for every­body that only gets bet­ter the more peo­ple use it. “At first, [...]
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Web 2.0 Suicide

By Michael Becker | Published: December 31, 2009
TechCrunch car­ried a story this morn­ing about a new site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. The site does just what it says, almost. You give the site your social net­work­ing cre­den­tials and it auto­mat­i­cally starts delet­ing your friends and con­tacts and posts on Twitter and Facebook. Once you start the process, there’s no stop­ping it. [...]
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Stimulus money, tennis courts and Baucus accusations

By Michael Becker | Published: December 30, 2009
Two stories, alike in Web buzz, in fair Montana, where we lay our scene. One gets mainstream coverage; the other doesn't. Why?
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