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Four who influenced my approach to social media

Mandy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:17:53 +0000

As part of their 35th anniversary, Poynter is crowdsourcing a list of the 35 most influential people in social media. They ask people to write Facebook notes or tweets recommending people for the list, with votes to come via re-tweets and likes.

This kind of voting system makes it very likely that we’ll see the 35 usual [...]

WaPo v. Gawker: Battle in the Blogs

Mandy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:16:09 +0000

The Washington Post took on Gawker for alleged copyright infringement this week in a battle of the blogs. Here's why the Post writer was wrong - and why the debate itself is just a mere sideshow to the real problems for newspapers online. [...]

The myth of the “free ride”

Mandy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:02:38 +0000

David Marburger is pushing the idea that aggregating sites are pushing newspapers out of business with cut-rate advertising. The entire argument is based in several falsities and we should just stop giving this guy face time. [...]

Stealing is wrong, so is a quest to own facts

Mandy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:02:18 +0000

My opposition is not to tough copyright law, it's directed at big news media trying to legally change the online marketplace to benefit themselves (and not content providers as a whole). [...]

A catch-up on recommended reading

Mandy — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:01:58 +0000

These are my recommended links for the past couple of weeks (sorry, I’ve been busy!):

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook – These rules for WSJ staff could and should be applied at any news organization. You want your reporters to be out there in social media – but there’s so much potential for disaster if [...]