November ← 2011 ← #Interhacktives

Finding interior terms or “sub-trends” on Twitter 5

Nov

2011

After a discussion with some of the other interhacktives, two things became readily apparent: Being able to search for words accompanying trends on Twitter would be really useful Currently, support for “sub-trend” searches is fairly lacking As an example of the first point: imagine you’re at a conference full of Twitter users, and everyone’s using ...

The news via smartphone and tablets… 1

Nov

2011

Neha-Tamara Patel The revolution of the tablet computer is making the media industry, especially newspapers, increasingly excited. The tablet offers the opportunity to transform the reading of print from paper to screen. Internet browsing on mobile and tablet devices is becoming more and more popular. Latest figures published on NewMedia TrendWatch (research conducted by Ipsos ...

How we forgot what social media is all about 3

Nov

2011

We follow, we friend, we linkin, we have buzzed and we have myspaced. We keep connecting. I believe I’m not too far off if I say we network now more than ever before in our entire history. Yet what we mostly do is connect at, dare I say, a technological level. Additionally, we are so ...

Ultra-personalisation: the future of online media? 2

Nov

2011

When looking at recent changes to the Facebook and Google News interfaces, a common factor soon becomes apparent – increasingly overt personalisation. Facebook has undergone countless tweaks since my generation first logged in half a dozen years ago, but the last round of modifications include the ‘subscribe’ function, which allows users to filter out content ...

Assam-ilating lessons from the Tea Party

Nov

2011

Tea Party Pledge BlueRobot April 15, 2010 5:33:23 AM EDT I have something of a confession to make: I truly, utterly and sincerely admire the Tea Party’s social media strategy. For my own benefit more than anyone else’s, I would like to point out that I have absolutely no sympathy with their programme of cutting ...

Shut down social media during future riots? Not the best idea. 2

Nov

2011

In story on the Guardian website today, 70% of people (in a survey of 973 adults) suggested they would be in favour of shutting down the social networks Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger during civil unrest. It comes off the back of the prosecutions for inciting riots (even though they did not occur after the said ...

Quirky social media story of the week: #2

Nov

2011

Antonia Kanczula Yet again, it’s been a busy week for quirky tales – from using social media to track disease outbreaks to a Mexican football team replacing their players’ shirt names with Twitter handles. Share this:TwitterGoogle +1FacebookLinkedInMoreStumbleUponRedditDiggPrintEmail

The New York Times: embracing the digital age

Nov

2011

Neha-Tamara Patel Two days ago, the chairman of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger, gave a talk at Journalism and society think tank POLIS based at LSE, on the continuing digital transformation of the New York Times. [Full text can be found here: http://bit.ly/vtRf3H] In his speech, Sulzberger addressed how the NYT are adapting to ...