Posts Tagged news
Twitter Lists making the news
Twitter Lists have been generating plenty of buzz this past week since their launch at the end of October, and it’s fascinating to watch the many ways they are being used in such a short space of time.
Mashable have published a piece on how news outfits are really running with this new feature, such as creating staff lists and gathering registers on favoured Twitterers. The New York Times staff list, already including 96 staffers, looks like a great resource for finding insightful tweets plus shows the NYT understands the boundaries between traditional news and social media are increasingly blurred.
In the UK The Guardian has created a handy list of Members of Parliament, so if you want to quiz your local MP on their expenses the Guardian’s list could be a good place to find them! Similarly CNN has curated a list featuring politicians involved in November 3 elections.
Any other particularly noteworthy news lists out there? The value seems to lie in creating filtered, specific lists that can that provide relevant information without all the noise and for the publisher there is always the potential to drive more traffic to their site.
Add comment November 4, 2009
Reuters loves linking
Chris Ahearn, Media President at Thomson Reuters, has spoken up in favour of the “link economy”. You may have noticed the recent ripple within the blogosphere over the issues surrounding linking and the World Wide Web, so it is certainly refreshing to hear a major publisher speak up with an understanding of how linking can be beneficial to all the parties involved.
So with that, I’ll direct to the original piece by Chris here, and recommend you follow his further musings on the matter via Twitter @cjahearn (not forgetting if you want the very latest from us at Moreover be sure to follow @moreovertech).
3 comments August 10, 2009
