Tag Archives: Social Media
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 [...]
Web 2.0 Suicide
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. [...]
Posted in Social Networking, The Human Condition Also tagged Social Networking, time management, web 2.0 Comments closed
Who owns the e-mail interview?
Paul Bradshaw, writing for Poynter, has raised some great questions about interviews conducted by e-mail.
Bradshaw was interviewed by a reporter via e-mail. At the end of their exchange, Bradshaw asked the reporter if that person would mind if Bradshaw published the e-mail exchange to his blog as raw data.
The journalist minded, saying, eventually, that [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, Ethics Also tagged blogging, e-mail, interviews, journalism Comments closed
Be OK with losing a little control
Well worth the four and a half minutes.
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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