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Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:52:58 -0500

What type of social networking personality are you?

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:15:12 -0500

From Mashable: “According to a social behavior study by MyLife, which was conducted among 890 adults ages 18 and older, there’s a good chance you fit into one of these personas. In fact, if you’re a young parent, you are 88% likely to post pictures of your kids or talk about parenting at least once a month. Not to mention 25% of users are “vaguebooking” by posting intentionally vague updates which encourage people to react and inquire for more details.”

Use the infographic to find your social networking personality:

How to Use Storify as Your One-Stop Social Media Search Engine

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:50:06 -0500

How to Use Storify as Your One-Stop Social Media Search Engine:

futurejournalismproject:

Regardless of whether you actually want to create a storify. David Higgerson describes 12 tips with examples so read through his post.

Short version:

Create a Storify, just for the sake of recording what you find.

When searching, use the words people on social networks use.

Make a beeline for Facebook, where you’ll find a lot of people to start with when looking for sources.

Filter out retweets.

Use Twitter images.

Use the location filter carefully.

Embed picture Tweets.

Get your search criteria right on YouTube.

Check photo dates on Flickr.

Just because Instagram pictures are often filtered, doesn’t mean you can’t get valuable information from them.

Storify lets you search Google too.

Beware of hoaxes.

An addendum to #12: this post by Steve Buttry on how to verify information on Twitter.

Related: This piece on Andy Carvin, the “one man Twitter news bureau” and his social media news process.

futurejournalismproject: Watch the World Tweet in Real...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:47:43 -0500

futurejournalismproject:

Watch the World Tweet in Real Time

Tweet Ping is a kind of ticker for Twitter activity by continent, showing the last used hashtag, mention and word-, character- and tweet counts. As you can imagine, everything moves very fast. Feels like you’re in a high tech spy movie.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:46:19 -0500

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emilyfreedom: Mustache! Great time with @katborg. #library...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:25:02 -0500

emilyfreedom:

Mustache! Great time with @katborg. #library #fridaynight

: Jack Kerouac’s Rules for Spontaneous Prose

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:10:04 -0500

: Jack Kerouac’s Rules for Spontaneous Prose :

brandonweight:

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

2. Submissive to everything, open, listening

3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house

4. Be in love with yr life

5. Something that you feel will find its own form

6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind

7. Blow as deep as…

nslayton: betype: Tweetin’ (by JoshwaaSayer) It’s...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:21:49 -0500

nslayton:

betype:

Tweetin’ (by JoshwaaSayer)

It’s addicting.*

*Apologies to anyone who follows me on Twitter, I know I tweet way too much.

pewresearch: When voters were asked for a single word that...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:19:58 -0500

pewresearch:

When voters were asked for a single word that described their reaction to Obama’s victory, Obama voters said they were “relieved” and “happy.”

Romney voters generally said they were “disappointed” or “sad” about the election outcome. Romney voters also used the words “disgusted,” “sick,” “horrified” and “scared,” to describe their reaction to Obama’s victory.

Overall, 41% of those surveyed – including both voters and nonvoters – said they were happy that Obama was reelected president; 37% were unhappy and 22% neither. A majority of nonvoters (55%) said they were neither happy nor unhappy with the election outcome, while 29% said they were happy and 16% said they were unhappy.

Read more from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

"Journo-Programmer" and the developer-journalism relationship

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:43:21 -0400

Basically sums up where we are at.

Checking in on the state of the “journo-programmer” with Source’s Dan Sinker.

This is the first legitimate use of Pinterest as a journalism...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:52:25 -0400

This is the first legitimate use of Pinterest as a journalism tool I have seen. And I am on Pinterest a lot. Kuddos to Pottsdown Mercury for creating a new innovative outlet for one of newspapers’ traditional functions. Do you know of any other examples of Pinterest-as-journalism tool?

futurejournalismproject:

Wanted, On a Pinboard

Newspapers have long printed the local police blotter.

In the town where I grew up (population 5,000, one stop light) it was almost kind of fun in its ongoing innocence. Fictitious but accurate example: Suspicious car reported on Main Street, upon investigation police determined that Michael Smith was visiting his parents, Karen and Brian.

In our networked world, the blotter is taking new shapes. Or, those wanted by local police may find themselves on a Pinterest board and not just the local paper.

Via Slate:

The Pottstown Mercury, a local Pennsylvania newspaper, has come up with a simple, but effective way to use social networking to fight crime. A few months ago, Brandie Kessler, a reporter for the Mercury, set up a Pinterest board called Wanted by Police. It consists of a continuously updated roster of mug shots of wanted individuals in the Pottstown area along with a description of the crimes they are charged with. Within a few short months, tips generated through the board have led to a dramatic increase in the apprehension of suspects in this borough outside Philadelphia.

Kessler wrote in September that local police estimate a 58 percent increase in the number of arrests since the Pinterest site went up in July. (It’s worth noting that this is a borough of just 22,000 people, so a few arrests could make a huge difference. But still that is an impressive number.) Kessler says she had previously created a slideshow of people with warrants out for their arrest on the newspaper’s website, but because it didn’t operate smoothly and was difficult to share on Facebook and Twitter, it wasn’t nearly as popular. As of Monday night, Wanted by Police had 881 followers on a board featuring 59 mug shots.

Now, wanted doesn’t mean guilty which can lead to troubling privacy issues. So too turning a town and region into pinboard detectives. But the practice is an extension of what was traditionally written up in the local paper. Just way, way more publicly.

Image: Screenshot, Wanted By Police, by the Pottsdown Mercury.

An infographic visualizing the state of being Hispanic in...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:05:40 -0400

An infographic visualizing the state of being Hispanic in America from CNN’s InAmerica blog.

nslayton: soupsoup: The Rumble 2012: Bill O’Reilly vs Jon...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:31:23 -0400

nslayton:

soupsoup:

The Rumble 2012: Bill O’Reilly vs Jon Stewart (Full)

Behold, an actual debate.

A word to the wise: Our social media addiction

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:27:32 -0400

These days we get so caught up in the day to day journalism practices that we rarely sit back and think about why we do what we do.

Social media is now a big part of our day to day practices in journalism and its time to sit back and think about social media’s value to journalism and why we might be so “addicted” to it.

A post by the Huffington Post’s Craig Kanalley does just that. As journalists and students of journalism, we should regularly take the time to really think about why we do what we do and challenge ourselves and our norms in the pursuit of a more relevant and impactful journalism.

futurejournalismproject: New Pew Report: More Mobile = More...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:42:02 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

New Pew Report: More Mobile = More News Consumption

via paidContent:

The findings, conducted by the Pew Research Center and the Economist Group, were presented Monday at an advertising week event in New York. They showed that news was the second most popular activity after email on smartphones and tablets, and that people who used both types of devices were likely to consume more overall news than before.

In practice, this means that publishers are adapting to what Denise Warren of the New York Times calls the “multi-platform news user.” Warren says this user is likely to read the Times on a tablet in the morning and in the evenings, and to use their phone as an “interstitial” news device during the day.

Warren added that these trends have led the company to increase its engineering team by 40% in an effort to produce an optimal mobile experience for roving news consumers.

Read the full PDF of the report here.

FJP: Another interesting finding studying news consumption trends, also from Pew, shows that for American adults under 30, social media has surpassed newspapers and equaled TV as their primary source of daily news.

via Poynter:

The study found 33 percent of those young adults got news from social networks the day before, while 34 percent watched TV news and just 13 percent read print or digital newspaper content.

Images: Selection from the report.

nslayton: lickystickypickywe: Bottoms up! First round is on...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:39:55 -0400

nslayton:

lickystickypickywe:

Bottoms up!

First round is on me. Shots anyone?

The Guardian’s Data Blog compiled some charts and...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:11:30 -0400

The Guardian’s Data Blog compiled some charts and infographics from around the web describing The Beatles’ musical success over the last 50 years as well as tributes to their amazing tunes.

Some nice data viz from my friends at @OUDaily on Okla. voter ID law

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:40:17 -0400

Some nice data viz from my friends at @OUDaily on Okla. voter ID law

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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:54:32 -0400

Data Nerd tattoo courtesy of ChartBeat. #ONA12

All of us rocking the tats. #ONA12

At #ONA12

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:43:12 -0400

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