Open-source. Storify. The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. TechCrunch, a San Francisco-based company that publishes the influential blog of the same name, started as a hobby. In 2005, Michael Arrington, a serial entrepreneur and former lawyer, was researching Silicon Valley start-ups and decided to post his findings online. Since then, TechCrunch, which draws about 9.2 million visitors a month and boasts annual revenue of about $10 million, has become the go-to source for breaking news about Internet start-ups and tech companies. Although TechCrunch has 25 full-time employees, Arrington, 40, still spends much of his time reporting and writing. On most days, he works remotely from his home near Seattle, in a cavelike home office. From morning until night, Arrington sits in darkness in front of his computer—blasting music, working his contacts, and focusing on what he loves best: breaking big stories.
I wake up in a pissed-off mood. If news is breaking, I want to be on it. I try to get up at 9 a.m. every day. I moved to the Seattle area in May. Les blogueurs pourront passer les cordons de police à NYC (via @ericscherer) Comcast Tests New Service That Combines Internet, TV. Updated Dec. 14, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET Comcast Corp. is testing a new service that knits together television and the Internet, as the U.S. cable giant goes after rivals that threaten to undermine its business. Under the new system, which is being tested in Augusta, Ga., content flows through a set-top box that combines features of the Web with those of a digital-video recorder, according to people familiar with the matter. Users can watch and search a smattering of Web video through their televisions and search across live, on-demand and recorded programming. The service, known to participants as "Spectrum" and internally as "Xcalibur," doesn't let participants freely browse the Web, though they do have some basic connections to social networks to comment on television shows, the people familiar with the matter said.
To date, Comcast's set-top boxes haven't received Web content. The move is partly defensive. Other traditional TV distributors are starting to move in this direction, too. TV Industry Taps Twitter and Facebook for Viewers. Journalisme et réseaux sociaux: 8 tendances venues des Etats-Unis. Deux semaines en «mission» aux Etats-Unis, une quinzaine de visites dans des rédactions dont le Washington Post, NPR, Fox News, CNN, Politico, Bay Citizen, et des rendez-vous auprès des entreprises de nouvelles technologies, dont Google et Twitter. Quel bilan?
Quelles tendances relever? Quels sujets préoccupent les journalistes américains? Quels sont les nouveaux usages qui émergent? Résumé. Le rôle de «social media editor», c’est fini? En décembre dernier, le New York Times a supprimé ce poste créé un an et demi plus tôt, occupé par Jennifer Preston, qui est désormais retournée au pôle reportages.
Cindy Boren, social media editor dédiée aux sports pour le Washington Post, sait bien que cette phase n’est pas éternelle. Crédit: AA N’écris pas sur Twitter ce que tu ne dirais pas à l’antenne Il y a un an, les rédactions anglo-saxonnes complétaient voire rééditaient leur charte déontologique pour statuer sur la posture journalistique à tenir sur les réseaux sociaux. Crédit: DR Alice Antheaume. Year After Google-China Spat, U.S. Pushes Internet Freedom on Social Media. As Egyptian authorities struggled to quash anti-government uprisings yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the longtime U.S. ally to unblock social networking sites that have been used to organize protests, such as those operated by Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc.
By urging Egypt’s government “not to prevent peaceful protests or block communications, including on social media,” Clinton in Washington renewed her call for freedom of expression and assembly online, and fueled debate over how to promote those goals without undermining other U.S. interests. Clinton’s defense of social networking is “a very delicate balancing act,” because of the longstanding U.S. relationship with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
In January 2010, Clinton praised Google Inc. for resisting Chinese censorship and championed Internet freedom. Advocacy Vs. Results Twitter Disruptions. Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog. Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog. One on One: Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Information officer. Must Read !! San Francisco's New Wave of New Media | by @LaurenLaDeDa. USA Today désintègre sa rédaction pour s'organiser par plate-forme (via @ericscherer) The second great migration to new media. Back in the Internet bubble days of the late 1990s, lots of journalists decamped from traditional news organizations to start or join dot-com companies. The early few were the real pioneers; as the decade wore on the people who bailed out of mainstream news organizations — which were doing well financially at the time but didn’t offer stock options except to a tiny number of senior people — were folks who in many cases saw a gravy train and decided to jump on it.
The bubble burst. Some of the early venturers, such as Gawker’s Nick Denton, who’d already done several startups before launching his blog network, stayed the course and prospered. But I’d bet that most of the journalists who’d bailed out decided that the comfortable embrace of a financially solid enterprise felt better than the high-risk territory of the startup. Goodman told the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz (scoop for the old guard!) You get what this means, right? The ecosystem is growing vastly more diverse. Fox News Launches Social Media-Centric Website - mediabistro.com: WebNewser. Fox News has soft-launched a website, Fox News Insider, with a social media focus. The site, which as at www.Foxnewsinsider.com, is being constantly updated with reports from Fox News Channel, as well as info on FNC programming like “The O’Reilly Factor”.
Users can sign into the site with their Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! Or MySpace accounts, allowing them to comment on or share stories. There is also a dedicated Twitter account @foxnewsinsider, which is feeding updates from the site directly to users Twitter feeds. The site also features a “live wall” where users can post comments about what is happening on Fox News, as well as a Twitter tracker, which aggregates the tweets from FNC correspondents and shows. Other features include a daily poll and an “open question” which asks users what they think about an issue of the day.
The site is a very fan-friendly move for FNC, with embeddable video, deep social media integration and a user-friendly layout and structure. 1/3 des membres du congres US sont sur Twitter. Reporting from Washington — Congress has spent the last year learning to tweet. More than a third of its members are doing it now. And if you thought the minute-to-minute musings of your best friends were boring ("I need coffee . . . I just saw a snowflake"), just wait. FOR THE RECORD: Congress and Twitter: An article in Tuesday's Section A about the growing use of Twitter by members of Congress, in a passage about politicians' past use of diaries before the rise of social media, referred to former Sen.
Now we know that at 1:41 p.m. on Dec. 15, Rep. It came to our attention last year that lawmakers better known for bellowing and bloviating were starting to tweet. But if our nation held out hope that its notoriously verbose legislators would lose interest in anything that cuts them off at 140 characters, that hope appears dead. It turns out that more than 200 of 535 members have jumped on the Twitter train. But in Congress, not all who Twitter appreciate this power. Sen. Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content.