Tag Archives: Social Media

USA Today invites readers onto expert panel

By Julie Starr | Published: 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.
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Bebo still number one in NZ with Facebook close behind

By Julie Starr | Published: 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.
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Wired uses Facebook group for science reporting

By Julie Starr | Published: January 21, 2008
Wired science reporter Alex Madrigal is interviewed about his exploits so far in beat blogging.
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Reporting through social networks throws up tech challenges

By Julie Starr | Published: 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.
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59 million users can’t be right and other thoughts on Facebook

By Julie Starr | Published: 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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