Is it ethical for newsrooms and journalists to use “autofollow” scripts to inflate the followers of their Twitter accounts?
Please answer my poll.
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Monthly Archive for April, 2009
Charlie Rose video interview with Arianna Huffington of Huffingtonpost.com and Tom Curley of the Associated Press. They square off for 15 minutes about link journalism and making money with wire news in the digital age.
Scrub the playhead on the timeline to 15:05 to get to the segment.
Continue reading ‘Arianna Huffington and Tom Curley: Journalism biz models for future’
Fake TV journalist Stephen Colbert conducts a funny, yet fairly useful interview with Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone. Twitter, Stone and to a degree, Colbert himself in this context, are all certainly victim of the “law of unintended consequences.”
The Colbert staff cleverly filed Tweets to Stephen’s stream while he was interviewing the guy who created Twitter. Stephen pretended to live Tweet and even post a tweetpic photo of Stone during the interview. Warning: Colbert intentionally mispronounces the word “Tweets.” He calls them “Twats,” for comedic effect.
Continue reading ‘Video: Biz Stone explains Twitter to Stephen Colbert’
