Belmont University in Nashville is spotlighted by WKRN in this clip about a recent forum on knowing your rights on line and the realities of being online. Produced by Tiani Jones, the clip answers several questions and also spotlight what some colleges are teaching their students about their online presence. H/T Paul Chenoweth
Facebook ‘Follows’ Twitter
Sorry for the bad pun. Facebook Announces New Homepages Thanks to updates to Facebook’s privacy settings, users will now also be able to follow others without having to become actual ‘friends.’ This is basically the same ‘friendship’ model that Twitter has implemented on its service. They’ve needed a way to make friendships unilateral for a [...]
Journalism Is Not Dead
I was watching an online conversation on Twitter yesterday about the NFL players whose boat capsized and the rescue attempt to find them. XarkGirl made the comment that she had told her coworkers in the newsroom that she saw the story break on Twitter (which is were I saw it as well) and their response [...]
AP Antiquity
In keeping with Trace’s post earlier today… In 1918, “hot news” traveled by mail and telegraph. It could last hours or even days. Today, a true scoop lasts for about a minute. The AP would have to show instances of articles where not only the AP broke the news, but was the only outlet to [...]
The Story Of The Fail Whale
I’m always intrigued to find how items that have created such a connection with pop culture come into being. Thus, the story of Twitter’s Fail Whale. As with many Web-popularity stories, there’s a lot of flukiness to Fail Whale’s rise. For starters, Lu had never heard of Twitter when she created the image (which she [...]
Twitter Users Black Out Avatars To Protest
Have you seen black avatars on Twitter? There is a reason for that: Avatars on Twitter are blacking out their avatars in protest against a new law, Section 92A, that has passed in New Zealand. The law stipulates that internet service providers (ISPs) “adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate [...]
Even More on Facebook’s TOS Change
Trace and I have been involved in a couple of conversations on Twitter over the last couple of days about the Terms of Service change on Facebook. One of the things @russm mentioned is that this whole fiasco was probably the result of someone on the legal team “over-lawyering” without the approval of the guys [...]
Just Do It
In a post written by Scott Karp a year ago, there is some very good information on why journalists should utilize the web. The post is just as timely today as it was when it was written. Karp writes: So here’s the real reason why people like Howard Owens keep encouraging journalists to blog. Print [...]
Twitter Raises Some Money
From the Twitter blog: Big Plans for Twitter, Inc. We are now positioned extremely well to support the accelerating growth of our service, further enable the robust ecosystem sprouting up around Twitter, and yes, to begin building revenue-generating products. Throughout this year and beyond, our small team will grow much bigger to meet the challenges [...]
The Twitter Conversation About The White Bentley
On Twitter last night, a white Bentley was the discussed topic as the car went on an hours long chase with police in close pursuit. A hashtag was used for #Bentley and #WhiteBentley All I could think of was O.J. Simpson’s famous Bronco ride except the news was being broadcast on a social media network. [...]