Twitter Blackout the Wrong Protest

Instead of a Twitter user blackout, how about ‘adopting’ an activist?

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Did Social Media kill SOPA? Podcast

It was hard to ignore the debate over the controversial anti-piracy bills proposed in the United States – SOPA and PIPA – as a number of popular websites, namely Wikipedia, went dark in protest on Wednesday January 18th.

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Storify Meets WordPress: A Perfect Marriage

The continual mash-up between social media platforms, and publication engines, reached a new milestone as Storify launched a Wordpress plugin.

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Podcast: Social Media in 2012

Interviewed by Adam Stirling on CFAX 1070 in Victoria BC Canada on Social Media in 2012. If 2011 was a year when citizen generated and shared media had a massive impact, what will 2012 herald?

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Top Predictions for 2012 – Or the Year We Dicsover if the Mayans were Right

Predictions for 2012 – what will the coming year bring in politics, news, books and popular culture?

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Blogger vs Journalist: Part Deux

Corporate media, and publicly funded publications cannot, will not fill the entire demand for information. For both it might not be in their interest or mandate; time and publication space constraints limit output. Especially at the hyper-local level and niche interest, citizen media amply fills that role. There is far more collaboration between established media, paid journalists and citizen reporters – with that, there is also a teaching moment.

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Help! I’m Being Impersonated on Twitter

Anyone who has been on Twitter long enough knows what a wonderful social media platform it is for news, conversations and sharing ideas. Like most good things, there are drawbacks: spam messages, bots, hacked accounts sending spam direct messages and now a relatively new phenomenon – impersonations.

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Essential WordPress Plugins

A few tips. Not all plugins are created equally! Look for the following when trying to find the best for your requirements. All WP verified plugins have essential information on the profile pages..

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Blogs and Journalism: A Matter of Tone?

Ultimately the debate over how to define a ‘blog’ vs an ‘article’ is really between journalists themselves, and the relevance, or not, to their publications and mediums. Maybe within the legacy network media space, Laura Payton is correct – that the ‘journalist’ blogs are more informal and add colour. Outside the professional journalism publoshpere, bloggers have little issue with definition…and yes, Kady O’Malley, we completely agree that many blogs report news!

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Voting 2.0 : Social Media and Turnout

One reason might be that the active users of social media demand almost instant feedback. Active Twitter and Facebook users tend to be better informed, the age demographic is rapidly moving from the ‘youth’ 18-24 years model to +45 yrs, and they tend to vote – or not, especially in cases where a politician is not meeting expectations within the communication medium of the voter.

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