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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
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My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: twitter
Notes from #wjchat
I participated tonight in what I understand to be the first Wired Journalists wired journalists chat on Twitter. It was fast-paced and went on for much longer than the planned hour — from what I can discern. I had to leave after an hour. (Proof it happened.) In the hour I could stay on, between furiously [...]
A third as prolific as Twitter seems to think
In case you were checking up on me, my Twitter account is one of many affected by a bug that somehow multiplied our tweet counts by a factor of roughly three. I have not tweeted more than 11,300 times, but if you want to think of me as being that prolific, be my guest.
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 [...]
Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism
Twitter is a medium and cannot be considered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s worried that we’re about to rehash the old argument about whether a new medium “is journalism.” Rather than arguing about whether Twitter is or isn’t journalism, we should shift the conversation to understanding the journalism taking place on this platform [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
Info about Twitter for journalists