Twitter // Current TV

Newsflash: Twitter's Stephen Colbert outed as fake

We all knew it was unlikely, but the real Colbert has been known to keep closely... more

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Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

A graduate student from UC-Berkley was covering a protest in Egypt when he and his... more

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TwittEarth: Live Twitts all over the world

If you twitter this is cool. If you don't? YOU SHOULD. Add me:... more

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Web 3.0 = Noise Reduction?

I've joked about this before, but based on the growing forms of social... more

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Twitter is like a "Get Out of Egyptian Jail Free" card

An American journalist posts the one-word tweet "Arrested", and manages to... more

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SF Twitter will tell you where the torch is at

Current TV crews were standing out in front of our building amongst many of the other... more

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The Day the Tweets Went Silent, Using Twitter Metrics and Blogger Resources

There has been tons of buzz on the web about micro blogging, in particular about... more

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Web has changed journalism forever

Anyone who wants to break into professional journalism needs to have some sort of online presence beyond a Facebook profile, as it's the first thing an editor will look for when they apply for a job, so there are a few new blogs and online publications out there that might not otherwise have appeared.

The reinvention of television proceeds apace as services like the iPlayer and 4OD hasten the end of the broadcast model and move us to an "any screen, any time, any place" model of programme distribution.

As the internet spreads there are more and more places where we can simply ask those who are living through the events what they think of them and seek insights and analysis from those who know the people and the places involved.

So we talk about citizen journalism, the way readers have become the "former audience", how the commercial model which made newspapers possible is being challenged by Google and Craigslist, and the need for any professional journalist to have multimedia skills.

We've seen blogging turn from a curious habit of the self-obsessed into a defining use of the internet for all forms of communication, watched citizen journalism rise and become partly absorbed into the mainstream, and seen news feeds, aggregators and personal recommendations on social network sites replace the front pages of major news providers as the way people find out about breaking news.

The Guardian has gone from a newspaper with a nice website to an online information source that also publishes a dead tree edition, while the BBC's Royal Charter now puts the internet on an equal level with TV and radio -whatever my students may argue about the matter.

It's an argument that Sameer Padania makes in "Reflecting the Real World 2", a report commissioned by the One World Trust to look at how the media portray the developing world, but of course it applies to every part of the world and not just countries outside the West.

This change will ripple through the newsgathering departments of every major media company, and it may not be welcomed everywhere, but it is one of those big changes that is obvious once it is pointed out to you. Anyone who wants to break into professional journalism needs to have some sort of... more