By: Greg Mitchell Two weeks ago, I wrote a column here about my first few days on Twitter (a service which actually was deemed "over" about two years ago, believe it or not).
My message essentially was: I was surprised to find it so useful as a source for scoops and links for the E&P site and at our blogs. Yes, there's plenty of silliness, but if used properly -- you need to "follow" the right people and stay away from most others -- it can be extremely valuable for news people.
If you haven't checked it out yet (there's been a boom just in the three weeks since I signed on), here's a brief sampling of some of the comments that I have offered to my "followers" just in the past day, and those provided by just a few of those I am following. See if you find more of this worth pursuing, at 140 characters a pop. And remember, you can "follow" who you want, so if, say, Karl Rove at Fox is your cup of tea, go wild.
BTW, I am at:
http://twitter.com/GregMitch
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OpinionatorNYT: @cshirky: Great Nick Carr article on Google and newspapers: http://tinyurl.com/d6e29d
NiemanLab: Biggest challenge facing the AP is member defections. Offering anti-piracy service is attempt to stem that. Rest is smoke.
johnrobinson: A1 ads...but it can't masquerade as a news story, which the LAT did. That's the cred issue.
tim_obrien" The shoe drops. Philly papers' lenders want "independent oversight" of CEO Tierney http://tinyurl.com/cpj6of #media
jayrosen_nyu: Here is the AP's new FAQ about protecting its property from the Internet: http://is.gd/rOvW
yelvington: Lost in the Google/AP uproar: Google news often promotes links to foreign rewrites over local/original coverage.
dankennedy_nu: Lamenting the death of newspapers? 3 Boston online projects show how to do foreign coverage in a post-newspaper world. http://is.gd/rVhs
glenngreenwald: Columbia Journalism Review on media (non)-coverage of Obama and state secrets: http://tinyurl.com/cckb7r
GregMitch: Interesting media debate developing over "date-rape" scene in new Seth Rogen film. Even actors surprised not cut. http://tinyurl.com/chjdgc
McClatchyDC: California soldier loses his leg, but not his fighting spirit http://tinyurl.com/cjdp2z
NiemanLab: Stuff to play around with on the weekend: free online tools for multimedia journalists http://tr.im/iAXc
carr2n: new, big screen Kindle. http://tinyurl.com/dz5ev8 But will they be able to replicate that same klunky, nonintuitive interface?
GregMitch: See ya later, aggregator: Major new study on what teens REALLY want in online news. http://tinyurl.com/d2plhb
jaketapper: more on the VA confiscating that WAMU reporter's recording equipment -- http://tinyurl.com/VAmore
fmanjoo: Great NYT piece on immigration and tech. http://is.gd/rXfo Does Glenn Beck know that 1/2 of US tech companies had foreign founders?
BAGnewsNotes@A_L: I strongly endorse blogging software addressing photographers' rights http://bit.ly/1Xnhnv In the meantime, it should be done by hand.
steveouting: Have you seen newspaper analyst John Morton's plan to kill the newspaper industry? http://is.gd/rE7X Date of industry's death: July 4, 2009
PaulRieckhoff : Army officially released March suicide data. Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/btgh6a. 13 potential suicides during the month.
Jay Rosen_nyu: Newspaper publishers asked Eric Schmidt if he would change the search algorithm to move their brands up http://is.gd/roN7 A legitimate ask?
LosingNews: Virginian-Pilot plans to lay off 40 in third wave of job cuts. http://ad.vu/k4s8
cyberjournalist: Can Kindle save newspapers? http://tinyurl.com/d4mobf
tpmmedia: Gettin' It Right: Not everyone in the media fell for the GOP's "up is down-ism" this week on the new Obama Pentagon budget.. http://tinyurl.com/cdalv2
GregMitch: NYT eats "crow": Amazing correction coming this Sunday, but why the nearly four-month delay? See it now: http://tinyurl.com/dy93n8
HowardKurtz: Thought: What if media refuse to do tedious last-minute-filers for Apr. 15 story? Just say no to caring about procrastinators?
NiemanLab: On the Lab today: Why today's WSJ would cover the Lorena Bobbitt saga http://bit.ly/v3ay Badvertising on LAT's front page http://tr.im/iySw
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