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Comment on Blurry journalism or good social media by David J. Neff

David J. Neff — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:35:19 +0000

And as the client in this case we are hoping our social media bet pays off. We will let you know after this weekend! We are loving the attention so far.

Comment on Blurry journalism or good social media by Robert Quigley

Robert Quigley — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:58:04 +0000

Thanks for this post, Chelsea.

One other thing I want to point out: The advertising is being handled and inserted onto Twitter by our advertising department. I worked with them to come up with the rules, and I have some oversight to be sure the ads “work” within Twitter, but they are handling the money/business side. As far as “blurring the lines,” It’s really not much different than the ads we sell on statesman.com or Austin360. Just a different medium.

Also, I am listening very carefully to the response to this.

Comment on Blurry journalism or good social media by whall

whall — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:35:46 +0000

I agree with xls - the preparation and focus ahead of time is impressive. I also like that they say (Ad) in it, so when the twitter clients catch up to the features we need… say, textual filters… then we can just ignore / filter those out as needed.

For example, I can’t wait for TweetDeck to support filters so I can stop getting blip.fm links. Or football game updates. I don’t want to unsubscribe to the people doing the things I find annoying; I just want to add a phrase to my killfile.

Comment on Blurry journalism or good social media by xls

xls — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:51:12 +0000

i am most impressed by the thought and care that The Statesman has put into this venture. perhaps this is the new paradigm; subscribed advertisement. opt-in for special offers. really this is nothing new. there are tons of consumer survey and bargain hunter sites. this is only interesting because it’s twitter. new tech has a history of offering more while asking for less. this just makes it harder to turn a buck. either you adapt (by offering more value/quality/service) or get left behind (go out of business.)

Comment on Blurry journalism or good social media by Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:50:23 +0000

Newspapers have ads. TV news runs commercials. Internet news sites have ads. What the hell is the difference? If anything, those are far more important in terms of disseminating objective news, because if anyone gets the majority of their information from freaking Twitter, they’re probably not so much looking for journalistic integrity.

Comment on In which some blasphemy is spouted about the Watchmen movie… by Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:57:02 +0000

Well written article.

Comment on In which some blasphemy is spouted about the Watchmen movie… by eye-shuh

eye-shuh — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:18:12 +0000

That makes a lot of sense. If you take the face value of the book in order to fit it into a movie, yeah, it’s gunna look like the comic but it won’t feel like the comic.

I was pretty pissed about the ending, but I’m glad to hear it turns out OK.

I’m off to see it on Thursday night, thanks for the review! I hate not knowing what to expect.