Tag Archives: New York Times
Why Twitter Will Endure
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, [...]
Word of Mouth
From Brad Stone’s article in the New York Times, looking at how marketers are trying to overcome ad saturation and inject messages into the conversations people are having on their social networks:
“We don’t want to create an army of spammers, and we are not trying to turn Facebook and Twitter into one giant spam network,” [...]
Posted in Ethics, Social Networking Also tagged advertising, Brad Stone, marketing, Social Networking, trust, twitter Comments closed
Post-Bowden Post-journalism
A short and admittedly narrow glimpse into the history of the term "post-journalism," inspired by Mark Bowden's article in the Atlantic in October 2009.
Posted in Ethics, New Media Also tagged Mark Bowden, National Review, New York Observer, post-journalism, The Atlantic Comments closed
Jarvis criticizes NYT’s Cohen for his dismissal of Twitter
Jeff Jarvis has a post worth reading over at BuzzMachine. In it, he compares columns about Twitter from two very different journalists: Mike DeArmond, a sports writer from Kansas City, and Roger Cohen, from the New York Times.
I’ll leave DeArmond aside, since he was clearly going for humor in his column. Cohen takes a more [...]
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