Bookmarks for 20 Apr 2009
- Twitter users play with Telegraph’s Twitterfall #Budget feature | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
"Good old online altruism eh? Twitter users have seized upon the opportunity to get their uncensored Tweets published on the Telegraph’s Budget page." Oh dear. You try to do something a bit innovative and people just kick you in the teeth. (twitter telegraph ) - The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left? « Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm
Robert Scoble on the future of newspapers: "I’ve been pretending in my head that I’m a newspaper exec. When I do that I keep beating myself around the face. Why? Because the newspaper industry keeps giving the geeks free meals." (journalism newspapers robert_scoble ) - Twitter API Wiki / Sign in with Twitter
"Sign in with Twitter is the pattern of authentication that allows users to connect their Twitter account with third-party services in as little is one click. It utilizes OAuth and although the flow is very similar, the authorization URL and workflow differs slightly as described below." (twitter oauth authentication ) - Daily Kos: Where we get our information
Out of curiosity, I decided to see where the news we discuss on this site came from the past week[...] Here's the results of that link inventory: Newspapers: 102 primary, 21 secondary; Blogs: 83 primary, 19 secondary [...]" (journalism sources Stats ) - When the media steals your photos :: Photocritic photography blog
"The story of a photographer whose photos went astray – and got re-published by one of the UK’s biggest newspapers without permission." Actually, the newspaper in question seems to have handled quite well a situation it should never have got into in the first place. But it's another sad story of a photographer being treated badly… and some words of advice. (photography legal flickr telegraph )