Archive for the ‘social media’ Category

It was the ultimate oops, going down in real time. Onward State, a student-run blog about Penn State University, had reported via Twitter on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 that legendary (and recently fired) Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. CBS sports and other news outlets soon picked up the story. [...]

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Robert Niles wrote on Nov. 18 in the Online Journalism Review that “It’s okay: you don’t have to use every social media service.” Thank goodness—because there are a lot of them. Wikipedia lists about 200 of the most popular sites, from Facbook to iWiW (it’s big in Hungary) to My Opera (the performance, not the [...]

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