Category Archives: Communities

Nice one, Storify

By Julie Starr | Published: November 28, 2011

A small thing, but impressive. I really like that Storify notified me when a proposed fix I had voted on was implemented.

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Paul Lewis on two persuasive examples of the value of crowdsourcing news

By Julie Starr | Published: November 24, 2011

If you haven’t seen this already… a couple of persuasive examples of the power of crowdsourcing in journalism from Guardian Special Projects Editor Paul Lewis. He talks about how Twitter and other social media helped him find witnesses to the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during riots in London and track down passengers on [...]

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‘A New York Times story is tweeted every 4 seconds’

By Julie Starr | Published: November 6, 2011

New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger gave a speech a few days ago at Polis LSE, which Charlie Beckett kindly posted in full. In it, Sulzberger talks about why the NY Times (which recently said it now has 325,000 digital subscribers) is engaging with its readers. The main Facebook page of The New York Times [...]

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In Indonesia & the Philippines it’s more about sharing content, in UK & Canada it’s more about sending messages

By Julie Starr | Published: June 24, 2011

Via Mashable, a graphic showing how people use social networks in various parts of the globe: In some countries, many of them Asian, most people were focused on content sharing. Others, like the UK and Canada, had more people who put a greater emphasis on sending messages. New Zealand appears to have fallen of the [...]

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WashPo trials a visual commenting system

By Julie Starr | Published: September 21, 2009

Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans [...]

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