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Blurring the lines between reporters and readers

By Michael Becker | Published: April 30, 2009
Matthew Ingram posted this great video today. It’s an inter­view with Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian. Not only does his paper have one of the best Web pres­ences of all major news­pa­pers, but the guy says some good things about the future of jour­nal­ism, espe­cially when it comes to rely­ing on the wis­dom of [...]
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Once more on the Twitter authority thing

By Michael Becker | Published: December 30, 2008
This pas­sage comes from Dan Gillmor’s “Principles for a New Media Literacy,” orig­i­nally pub­lished as part of the Media Re:public project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. I think it unwit­tingly pro­vides a great exam­ple of why “num­ber of fol­low­ers” is a poor gauge of author­ity on Twitter (and any social [...]
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