links for 2008-05-21

• Jeff Jarvis: Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine (hey, that's me he mentions)
  Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services - Flickr, YouTube, Facebook - for news catchwords such as "
  (tags: bbc guardian jeffjarvis news2.0 twitter cybersoc reuters bbcnews yahoo china usergeneratedcontent journalism journalisttraining)
• it.com.mk - Интервју со Robin Hamman од BBC
  A long (33 minute) uncut and quite casual interview that the Macedonian IT portal did with me whilst I was at Glocal 2.0 in Skopje. I talk about cornfields, cybersex, online community management and social media. Not in that order.
  (tags: macedonia bbc cybersoc bbcblogs video moderation hosting onlinecommunitymanagement)
• How to battle Google (... and how to battle it out in the comments - go Jemima!)
  I love the way Jemima deals with the comments on her Guardian posts: @SinTrenton: I used that pic for the word 'sabotage'. I suppose I could've used the Google logo like every other darn post about search but I chose something different.
  (tags: google yahoo guardian onlinecommunitymanagement onlinediscussion journalisttraining)
• theory.isthereason
  Blog of a doctoral student at SUNY who "openly wishes to become a social cyborg" - had a look around and am bookmarking so I can pop back in although I'm not sure whether it will end up in my RSS list
  (tags: web2.0 technology)
• Would you hire a social media strategist? Discussing emergent themes (Part 3) at theory.isthereason
  ..."an elaborate discussion of the emergent themes from survey responses"
  (tags: socialmedia strategy onlinecommunitymanagement academicresearch)
• Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail, Gartner Says
  "Fully 90% of business forays into virtual worlds fail because organizations focus on the technology rather than on understanding the needs of the employees using it, Gartner said"
  (tags: statistics strategy virtualworlds secondlife)
• TechCrunch UK: BBC’s Sound Index is good, but we won’t get the data
  Another example of the BBC setting up "listening devices" for content offsite: "lists the top 1,000 artists based on discussions crawled from Bebo, Last.fm, Google Groups, iTunes, MySpace and YouTube..."
  (tags: bbc web2.0 music offshoring bebo last.fm myspace youtube itunes google techcrunch)

Comments

[Kevin]

Hello Robin, thanks for looking me up. For the sake of efficiency (and honesty), I'd recommend you not subscribe to my blog. It's a mixture of personal, pedagogical, cyberculture, social media and social cyborg-ing, so it might get too noisy since it's not genre specific. That's just how I "roll". If anything specific develops, you'll hear folks recommending specific posts. ;)

P.S. This prompts me to think I should start a new RSS feed for genre specific news so professionals like yourself could follow. What do you think?