Comments on: With Twitter, a Desperate Need for Context

By: GigaOM: Four Years & Counting

GigaOM: Four Years & Counting — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:02:11 +0000

[...] we started with a simple premise: the world will always be looking for context. Add to that our three core areas of focus — innovation, strategy and money — and you [...]

By: SocialFlow Wants to Make Sense of the Real-time Web

SocialFlow Wants to Make Sense of the Real-time Web — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:28:51 +0000

[...] What makes Twitter so special is also what makes it so infuriating. The tweets (or conversations) move so fast that you miss them more often than not. What’s maddening is that there isn’t enough context to the information that’s flowing through the service, or at least not enough to engage with the right content at the right time. These are some of the challenges I have written about in the past. [...]

By: Louisa

Louisa — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:32:08 +0000

I have watched a few news stories unfold on twitter now but I never RT or pass them on until I see a reliable news source report the story. Maybe I'm just cynical but I believe news organisations need to be quicker off the mark and people need to be aware that everything published via twitter/blogs etc is not automatically true.

By: The evolution of blogging « mick's leadership blog

The evolution of blogging « mick's leadership blog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:50:47 +0000

[...] terrorist attacks, I wrote about Twitter’s growing influence as a source of breaking news and how, in order to make sense of it all, we need more context. The best place to provide that context is now in blogs. To be sure, most people view Twitter as a [...]

By: The evolution of blogging « mick's leadership blog

The evolution of blogging « mick's leadership blog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:50:47 +0000

By: omis.me » Why I am not sad. Because I have no reason to be!

omis.me » Why I am not sad. Because I have no reason to be! — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:16:09 +0000

[...] this age of instant information, thanks to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, the demand is for tools of context, and that is why I think we are on the right path. Jeff Jarvis, [...]

By: Six Apart and Pownce: Micro-blogging FTW? – GigaOM

Six Apart and Pownce: Micro-blogging FTW? – GigaOM — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:27:31 +0000

[...] aren’t just blogging services but content-management and content-publishing companies, and Twitter messages are just another form of content that needs to be managed and [...]

By: The Real-time Web: Sifting Required – GigaOM

The Real-time Web: Sifting Required – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:25:45 +0000

[...] last week, this influx of status updates often results in a series of disjointed conversations that lack context, making it hard to piece together and decipher what it all [...]

By: The Evolution of Blogging [Om Malik] « an truong le

The Evolution of Blogging [Om Malik] « an truong le — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:25:35 +0000

By: How Will Twitoaster Stack Up?

How Will Twitoaster Stack Up? — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:46:03 +0000

[...] September 1, 2009 | 3:45 PM PT | 0 comments We’ve written extensively about how tweets seriously lack context, due, at least in part, to the inherently disjointed nature of the Twitter network. To read a [...]

By: Twitter Wants to Capture LBS Mojo

Twitter Wants to Capture LBS Mojo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:41:08 +0000

[...] By Jennifer Martinez | Thursday, August 20, 2009 | 5:40 PM PT | 0 comments Twitter plans to launch a location-based feature that reveals the latitude and longitude from which an individual is tweeting, co-founder Biz Stone revealed in a blog post today, signaling that the micromessaging site wants to hop onto the hot location-based services trend (a topic that will be featured at our upcoming Mobilize 09 conference) under way. Twitter users are currently able to read tweets from people they’re following on the site, but the new, opt-in LBS feature will enable the reading of tweets based on location. It will allow Twitter users a way to connect on a local level, offering up an additional layer of desperately needed context. [...]

By: Three Years & Counting…

Three Years & Counting… — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:34:05 +0000

[...] and discovery of content on the Internet have changed. But as I’ve written in the past, there is also a desperate need for context. It’s made me think and rethink the value of not just our blog but blogging in general. Over [...]

By: Francis Durman

Francis Durman — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:32:10 +0000

So, what is the business model for journalism now guys? I read that on-line news and comment is not able to compete with the mountain of same coming from bloggers, and indeed from fools like myself, with no known status other than my charm and good looks.
Will poetry become a power in the land I wonder, and can you sell it!

By: Overstream.net Blog » Blog Archive » Gaza, Oakland and citizen journalism

Sat, 02 May 2009 19:45:00 +0000

[...] And as that happens, the traditional media should, in parallel, work hard to add value, in the form of deeper context and analysis, as close to real-time developments as possible. As Om Malik put it: [...]

By: The Words Twitter And Efficiency Used Together? « Geeks Guide To Productivity

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:02:34 +0000

[...] Also i find Tweedeck a supercool manager of the Twitter internet drivel, I use it to screen out the dullards and stay focused on the content I really want to pay attention to. [...]

By: Top5 : Most annoying discussions | Discussões mais irritantes « O Lago | The Lake

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:28:18 +0000

[...] or local media knew or could react, even half world away. So this is the nature of Twitter: a powerful broadcasting and crowdsourcing tool. Well played it can be used to get and deliver information. Of course, just [...]