Just setting up my live blog for #media140
www.telegraph.co.ukRight #media140 here I come...
I've arrived at #media140 and located the power source. So far so good
RT @
hermioneway: just started live stream from #media140
bit.lyVery full at #media140 Hardly a spare seat in the house
And we're off @
dailytwitter is welcoming everyone to #media140
Up 1st @
theplayethic journalist&founding ed of the Sunday Herald but left to write book 'The Play Ethic' #media140
digital technology allows everyone to 'play' at journalism. @
theplayethic was jogging when spotted met police training before #G20 #media140
obvious uses of Twitter:beat reporting (geo-locating tweets),early warning (eg earthquakes),real-time content (photos/audio/video) #media140
Obvious uses of twitter cont. sources, research, promotional tool, expertise archive #media140
Fear that Twitter will degrade journalism by shortening attention span is refuted by ways ppl use it.Drives people2longer pieces eg research
We need to keep thinking beyond 140 chars so that ordinary citizens have maximum functionality but mustn't lose real-time benefit #media140
Can Twitter reactivate journalism by moving away from churnalism? Maybe fewer journalists but better journalism #media140
As wth music,live performance is main event.Ppl will only pay4something that is scarce - the authority of news orgs isn't the added extra
Sky uses Twitter as another news feed says @
jongrip - eg search for a breaking news event #media140 @
bilt says that's old media thinking
Blogs have become more about speed than verification says @
mikebutcher but @
darrenwaters says we can't get into "we're not wrong for long"
BBC does not allow ppl to tweet as journalists - has to go through a 2nd pair of eyes.Official tweets from Davos were2nd-checked by someone
RT @
barneyc: @
kate_day @
nickhalstead Twitter does have ranking on rep - just the only rep it affords now is follower/following #media140
RT @
MarkJones: RT @
jimbola: @
darrenwaters - BBC interactive 'red button' looking to bring in twitter feeds to live TV broadcasts #media140
Next up a panel on successes&failures in social media- @
MarkJones @
Suw @
kevglobal @
moeed and @
fieldreports #media140
@fieldreports talking about being an independent freelancer using Twitter in the field #media140
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 3:52:52 PM
Major success for Reuters was socialising public policy speeches - like event with Hector Sants
bit.ly #media140
Reuters event with Robert Zoellick from the World Bank found taking qus from Twitter refreshing - he was asked important but obvious qus
@suw danger is that you risk broadcasting and not conversing if you have too many followers
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:17:43 PM
Trying to do a live link to @
moeed... not going so well #media140
Someone suggests phoning @
moeed - that's technology for you! maybe we need to do a twinterview #media140
Social media at Aljazeera doesn't sit with newsroom, more like a consulting wing. Picked up lobbying online by Israel eg
bit.lyA lot of discussion about #gaza but not very informed. Aljazeera decided to leap into Twitter. Reporters on ground a major advantage
Some has just knocked on @
moeed's door... his v interesting talk has been momentarily interrupted! "Hello Mum..." #media140
@moeed's back. Challenge was to get journalists to use hash tags and understand the medium #media140
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:37:37 PM
@moeed asked how he would handle disinformation. He says they replied on info from their journos not the community, especially as #gaza was so sensitive
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:39:44 PM
Now a panel on social media and local news. 1st @
timesjoanna - twitter is another way of finding the community ur talking to/about #media140
@documentally asks ppl to remember that social media needs to work in places where it can't at the moment eg Zimbabwe #media140
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:49:22 PM
@documentally talks about Gerry Jackson who is sending texts into Zimbabwe. Local news in places that isn't local to us could affect us all
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:49:34 PM
You can see Gerry Jackson's radio station at
www.swradioafrica.comby kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:49:45 PM
@paulbradshaw says that although msm argue local journalism is dead, ppl are very interested in news near them #media140
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:52:01 PM
Audience member asks about ways to make money from social media. @
paulbradshaw thinks locally targeted ads might work eg local business
@
timesjoanna says newspapers have never sold content, sold audiences.Journos want to look at what they are serving ppl-is it what they need?
@paulbradshaw huge opportunity for local news to step into aggregation, providing context.Readers can start choosing what is local for them
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 4:58:49 PM
@
timesjoanna says meeting ppl in person completely changes the relationship you have with your network. Just talking on Twitter isn't enough
@simongrice says news orgs need to build a newsroom that is permeable, that ppl feel included in. #media140
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 5:03:57 PM
@simongrice says local journalists need to return to their basic skills of aggregating and reporting. Fundamentals haven't changed
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 5:07:44 PM
@documentally is glad ad model is kicking and screaming - he doesn't want content covered with ads. *cheers* #media140
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 5:10:11 PM
@simongrice newspaper industry needs to look at what start ups are doing. Revenue will come and he thinks it will emerge from localism
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 5:11:25 PM
@jeffpulver asks if journalists only use Twitter to promote, can you be still be human? I hope we can connect with people :)
by kate_day at 5/20/2009 5:16:07 PM
OK, and we're done. Hope that was interesting. I will be blogging a more considered summary tomorrow #media140