Views of the News: Should journalists get off Twitter?
Is it time for journalists to get off Twitter? One of the nation’s leading newspapers has made a presence on the social platform optional. We’ll talk about why, and what effects this could have on the quality of reporting and the safety of reporters. Also, Warner Bros. Discovery’s takeover of CNN and HBO, the collapse of Black News Channel and the USA Today’s innovative use of comic journalism. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.
Twitter acquires mobile engagement platform OpenBack – TechCrunch
Twitter is acquiring mobile engagement platform OpenBack, whose team will join Twitter's Bluebird product team and focus on enhancing notifications on Twitter.
Flickr forever: Creating the safest, most inclusive photography community on the planet.
Today we’re announcing some upcoming changes to our Terms of Service that will help us continue to preserve the art, expression, history, stories, and memories of all Flickr members for the next hu…
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds of people all (sort of) working toward a vague common goal on a ridiculous project that did not exist two weeks ago. The way it started was…
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]