Twitter and blogs: Post once and bail out

The News Review:

- Twitter and blogs: Post once and bail out
- Sometimes You Want to Blog Where Nobody Knows Your Name
- Blogs trumped by Twitter in Webbys coverage
- Get the Tech Scuttlebutt! (It Might Even Be True.)
- Blogs or Mainstream News Where’s The Real Information?

Twitter and blogs: Post once and bail out
CNET News
Somewhere down the line however Twitter as a company will need to put programs and efforts into place to encourage people to actually use the service if it ever plans to monetize it. The fact that 10 percent of users are driving 90 percent of the content is not dramatically different than what you see with sites like Wikipedia or with personal blogs which have an even lower rate of consistent publishing. According to a 2008 study by Technorati 95 percent of the blogs they track hadn’t been updated in at least four months. rphaned tweets like. The fact is that people abandon stuff all the time–TV shows books whatever.

Sometimes You Want to Blog Where Nobody Knows Your Name
American Spectator
James Antle III on 6. 09 @ 12:46PM Ed Whelan’s outing of the liberal legal blogger Publius has started some debate over anonymous and pseudonymous blogging. Personally I woudn’t have outed him — a position Whelan himself now. But not all reasons for anonymity strike me as equally valid.

Blogs trumped by Twitter in Webbys coverage
NEWS.com.au
But the most interesting thing about the 13th Annual Webby Awards Gala held on the final night of Internet Week in New York today was the way it was reported. Last year prominent outlets including The Guardian covered the awards with live blogs written from the ceremony floor. This year there was none of that. Instead it was all about Twitter. Those who couldn’t attend in person turned to the popular micro-blogging website to keep up with the ceremony’s famously funny acceptance speeches and gossip from inside the room. Even the Wall Street Journal covered the event by simply reprinting reporter Marisa Taylor’s Twitter updates (@.
Related from Mediaberri: Boeing VP ponders blogging Twitter and social media

Get the Tech Scuttlebutt! (It Might Even Be True.)
New York Times
TechCrunch noted 133 words into its story that “The trouble is we’ve checked with other sources who claim to know nothing about any Apple negotiations. ”But they reported it anyway. “I don’t ever want to lose the rawness of blogging” said Michael Arrington the founder of TechCrunch and the author of the post. (wen Thomas the writer of the Gawker post has since taken a job at.

Blogs or Mainstream News Where’s The Real Information?
WebProNews
So let’s fix this. Let’s stop reading blogs—I mean you know all they do is just post anything that comes into their heads foundation or not—and stick to the venerable guardians of all truth the mainstream media. They would never run a thinly-sourced story or publish rumors and we know that every word they write is as from the mouth of God.

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