Category: Mainstream Media

  • Hedging your bets with Twitter

    It seems that everywhere I look this morning, I see someone talking about Twitter. I don’t mean twittering – using Twitter, although there’s the usual constant of that – but talking about Twitter. Among the pitches for marketing guides and…

  • Hardly anyone trusts the media

    Press intrusion and inaccurate reporting in the UK are getting worse because the recession has forced newspapers to make cutbacks, says the BBC in summarizing A More Accountable Press, a report published today by the Media Standards Trust which says…

  • The Telegraph is Twitter crazy

    The British media’s continuing love affair with Twitter has taken a huge leap into the mainstream with “Twitter Crazy,” an easy-to-understand guide to getting into microblogging published in today’s Telegraph Weekend, the lifestyle supplement in The Daily Telegraph on Saturdays.…

  • Obama images and not-so-fair use?

    The image of US President Barack Obama that you see here is one of the iconic symbols of the man and what so many people believe this image embodies. The poster image on the right is one that captured so…

  • Twitter tracking Davos

    This is how I’m keeping track of what the buzz is about at the World Economic Forum meeting this week in Davos, Switzerland – tracking Twitter comments on the hashtags #davos and #davos09. I’ll jump in to the Twitter Search…