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I'm Jojo Pasion Malig. I'm the usual suspect behind the night desk of the Philippines' leading news website. I like making interactive data eye candy. Mild prescriptivist.
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#SalamatJesse mapped on Twitter, via NodeXL

#SalamatJesse mapped on Twitter, via NodeXL

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Machines are still terrible at picking out or assessing sarcasm or irony.

Matt Buchanan, Twitter Launches Political Index: The Twitter Pulse Of The Election

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Twitter and attribution →

How to properly credit sources on Twitter, via the Business Insider:

MT = Modified tweet. This means the tweet you’re looking at is a paraphrase of a tweet originally written by someone else.

RT = Retweet. The tweet you’re looking at was forwarded to you by another user.

PRT = Partial retweet. The tweet you’re looking at is the truncated version of someone else’s tweet.

HT = Hat tip. This is a way of attributing a link to another Twitter user.

CC = Carbon-copy. Works the same way as email.

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Mapping @govph’s Twitter network and December 8 activity Profile of other Twitter users on @govph’s active social network are not shown. Will do so if the map gets more interesting.

Mapping @govph’s Twitter network and December 8 activity

Profile of other Twitter users on @govph’s active social network are not shown.

Will do so if the map gets more interesting.

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Facebook-Only News Site Bids Farewell

sasquatchmedia:

I’ve been teaching my social media students about professional uses of Facebook in recent weeks, including Rockville Central, the Maryland news site that made news this spring when it moved all publishing to Facebook.

Imagine my surprise last Friday when I read its farewell note to readers, just as I was heading in to class to discuss Rockville’s success. As full-time, unpaid volunteers, Rockville site operators Brad Rourke and Cindy Cotte Griffiths explained they could no longer devote the time to do it right. But they made this clear: They counted the move to FB as a success. Yes, the Notes function was lousy for posting news and story archiving a nightmare.

But their audience numbers on FB jumped, they say, suggesting the act of creating a community of news followers within a social network made a difference. I think community makes a huge difference, especially online. I also think that’s the future of news, despite protestations from some in the industry.

It’s a delicate endeavor, though, especially on FB. The social network instituted some changes in recent weeks designed to attract more professional media workers by omitting the friending/fanning nomenclature that makes a lot of people queasy.

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Frequent Twitter users can lull themselves into believing that the Twitter-verse is representative of society at large; likewise, journalists and editors can mistakenly trust that their Twitter followers are representative of their organization’s audience.

Lauren Kirchner, Beware the Twitter Echo Chamber

The Copy Editor: Exactly my point.  Only a small percent of any given nation’s population is on Twitter.

Brainstorm magazine editor Samantha Perry, who is based in South Africa, also told me today that based on the last data she saw, only 50,000 South Africans are on Twitter. The figure is less than 1% of the country’s total population of more than 50 million. 

It’s not double-digit too in the Philippines, where Internet access is not as obiquitous compared to developed countries.

Worth a good read is the previous post on the Fortune article, Trouble @Twitter.

Also, social media evangelists have their work cut out.

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Get Thee Behind Me, Twitalyzer! [via ReadWriteWeb]

Get Thee Behind Me, Twitalyzer!

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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Keith Lee: The Twitter system encourages following, re-tweeting and the like because it functions as a scoring system for the ego of the user. So it’s really no surprise that Twitter is generally viewed as a sort of “Happysphere” – it’s innate to the functioning of the system. Users encourage other users as part of the positive feedback loop in order to increase their own engagement statistics and push up their number of Re-Tweets, followers, etc.  So despite that nothing is actually being accomplished, it generates a feeling of accomplishment. There is a sense that the user is achieving goals merely by gaining followers on Twitter or generating Re-Tweets. There is no actual, tangible benefit for most users, however, it’s merely a system that has been developed to A) gain marketshare and attention through a feedback loop generated through gamification & B) push advertising. It’s great for corporations and advertisers – but poses ethical and sociological issues for its average users. You’re Being Played By Twitter

Keith Lee:

The Twitter system encourages following, re-tweeting and the like because it functions as a scoring system for the ego of the user. So it’s really no surprise that Twitter is generally viewed as a sort of “Happysphere” – it’s innate to the functioning of the system. Users encourage other users as part of the positive feedback loop in order to increase their own engagement statistics and push up their number of Re-Tweets, followers, etc.  So despite that nothing is actually being accomplished, it generates a feeling of accomplishment. There is a sense that the user is achieving goals merely by gaining followers on Twitter or generating Re-Tweets. There is no actual, tangible benefit for most users, however, it’s merely a system that has been developed to A) gain marketshare and attention through a feedback loop generated through gamification & B) push advertising. It’s great for corporations and advertisers – but poses ethical and sociological issues for its average users.

You’re Being Played By Twitter


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Before RSS. Before Twitter. Before scrolling news headlines. Before aggregators. [via BrainTraffic] Related articles Kommons Will Sneakily Make You Blog For Free (mediaite.com) Twitter data lets NPR glimpse a future of app-loving news junkies (niemanlab.org) Twitter Follower Counts, DMs Are DOWN (PICTURE) (huffingtonpost.com) The Future Is A Graph (mediaite.com) Tumblr Completes The Holy Trinity of Social Media (mediaite.com) How Social Sharing Spreads News (searchenginepeople.com) Google News testing Twitter ‘friends’ integration (lostremote.com) Social News Aggregators (befluid.com) How RSS Bandit Can Feed You Everything You Need Online (makeuseof.com) David Helfenbein: The Facebook News Feed and Twitter Generation (huffingtonpost.com)

Before RSS. Before Twitter. Before scrolling news headlines. Before aggregators.

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Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice.

Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker 

(via theweekmagazine)

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