Comments on: Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice

By: Was What Happened in Tunisia a Twitter Revolution?: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:30:25 +0000

[...] other social-media tools can be incredibly useful for spreading the news about revolutions — because it gives everyone a voice, as founder Ev Williams has pointed out — and that can help them expand and ultimately achieve some kind of effect. Whether that [...]

By: DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter’s Value — and Its Weakness: Tech News and Analysis «

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:52:20 +0000

[...] come to rely on it, and the implications of that dependence. As founder Evan Williams has noted, Twitter effectively makes everyone a publisher — and that means we are all potentially targets for similar court [...]

By: Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question: Tech News «

Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question: Tech News « — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:00:43 +0000

[...] And while it is clearly not run by journalists — and to a great extent relies on journalists at the New York Times, The Guardian and other news outlets to do the heavy lifting in terms of analysis of the documents it holds and distributes — I think an argument can be made that WikiLeaks is at least an instrument of journalism. In other words, it is a part of the larger ecosystem of news media that has been developing with the advent of blogs, wikis, Twitter and all the other publishing tools we have now, which Twitter founder Ev Williams I think correctly argued are important ways of getting us closer to the truth. [...]

By: This Week in Review: Making sense of WikiLeaks, a Daily tablet paper, and Gawker leaves blogging behind » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:04:24 +0000

[...] aggregation, search, marketing, authority, writing. Likewise, GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram argued that Twitter’s real cultural power “could well be that it is the simplest, the easiest [...]

By: Kneale Mann

Kneale Mann — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:40:26 +0000

The last time I checked, there was not a mysterious group known as “them” and McLuhan would have loved this because the message is now the medium. Velocity can hurt us with misinformation, but can also help us. But either way, we have no way of slowing down the river of information.

Target demos, cumulative audience, reaching eyeballs, audience impressions, user experience, legitimate journalism and who’s right are all up for discussion.

If the current sites (tools) went bankrupt tomorrow, the almost two billion online users find the conversation, information, content and interaction to help, heel, sell and connect later tomorrow.

By: Ben Ayers » links for 2010-11-19

Ben Ayers » links for 2010-11-19 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:23:41 +0000

[...] Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice: Tech News « RT @om: Wow! @mathewi is on fire. Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice http://t.co/20zllG5 via @gigaom (tags: via:packrati.us) [...]

By: Like Democracy, the Web Needs to be Defended, Its Creator Says: Tech News «

Like Democracy, the Web Needs to be Defended, Its Creator Says: Tech News « — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:11:31 +0000

[...] definition. The ability to send information to anyone, to link to content wherever it exists, and to publish almost instantly seems so commonplace now that we forget how important it is, in almost exactly the same way [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:04:54 +0000

Thanks, Alf — ambient journalism is a great way of putting it.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:04:14 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Sheldon.

By: Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:34:09 +0000

This is what I have described as ambient journalism: acts of journalism happening all around us. You're spot on when you write about the need to turn this firehose of tweets into context streams that are relevant to time, place and interests. From one of my journal papers: "Journalism, which was once difficult and expensive to produce, today surrounds us like the air we breathe. Much of it is, literally, ambient, and being produced by professionals and citizens. The challenge going forward is helping the public negotiate and regulate this flow of awareness information, facilitating the collection, transmission and understanding of news."