Tag Archives: communication

Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore

By Michael Becker | Published: February 7, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, New Media, Social Networking | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

Notes on Nicholas Carr

By Michael Becker | Published: September 26, 2009
Notes on a February 2009 Nicholas Carr article.
Posted in New Media | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

Twitter without a follower count?

By Michael Becker | Published: April 16, 2009
A great idea, one of the best I’ve heard in a while. Twitter, at its core, is sup­posed to be about com­mu­ni­ca­tion, not your fol­lower count. A cou­ple of years ago when the num­ber of Twitter users only reg­is­tered in the thou­sands, a user would tweet some­thing out and maybe only a dozen other peo­ple would see [...]
Posted in Social Networking | Also tagged , , , | Comments closed

  • Recent Comments