How niche social networks aid reporting
A case study from the BeatBloggers about how Gina Chen, family life editor at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY, uses niche social networking tool Ning in her reporting.
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Bebo still rules the roost in NZ
Friday, February 29, 2008
From Hitwise New Zealand come the latest rankings for who's using which social networks in New Zealand.
Reporters, privacy settings and other people’s Bebo profiles
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Martin Hirst raises some interesting thoughts on how reporters in NZ are plundering Bebo, Facebook and other social network profile pages for quotes and pictures. He talks about the coverage of murdered economics student Sophie Elliott.
In social networks as in life: it’s good to experiment but eventually you have to settle down
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
NZ-born social networking site iYomu is trying to entice me back by offering me money, well, possible money - the chance of finding a US$100 icon in my vault, whatever that is. It's not going to work though.
Treat social networks like any source: with measured skepticism
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A few big names got caught out not long ago using quotes from a Facebook profile purported to belong to Benazir Bhutto's son. The profile was a fake, although it turns out her son did have a profile but clearly one which reporters didn't stumble upon.
USA Today invites readers onto expert panel
Monday, January 21, 2008
USA Today is surveying its socially networked readers, asking them to join an expert panel where they can share their opinions and be interviewed by reporters.
Bebo still number one in NZ with Facebook close behind
Monday, January 21, 2008
Hitwise reports that Bebo remains the most popular social networking site in NZ, with 16.87% market share for the week ending 5 January 2008. Facebook followed closely at second position with 14.2% share. Bebo has strong brand recognition, Hitwise said, and was the leading search term for 2007.
Wired uses Facebook group for science reporting
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wired science reporter Alex Madrigal is interviewed about his exploits so far in beat blogging.
Reporting through social networks throws up tech challenges
Friday, January 18, 2008
More from the beat blogging experiment, which involves 12 reporters in various US newsrooms using social networks and blogs in their reporting.
59 million users can’t be right and other thoughts on Facebook
Friday, January 18, 2008
Every day's a good day to talk about Facebook. There is endless chatter online about how big it's going to get, whether it deserves to be big, how much it will sell for, whether it will sell, how safe it is, how big a mistake the Beacon fiasco was, how long it will take for people to lose interest in being bitten by mutant ninja zombies and so on.
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