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Peter Horrocks: backing Facebook and Twitter. Photograph: Martin Godwin BBC news journalists have been told to use social media as a primary source of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week.
BBC tells news staff to embrace social media | Media | guardian.co.uk
Google is very good at taking existing products that we take for granted and improving their usability -- search, maps, webmail, documents. As well as improving usability, they are also encouraging a shift in where we store our information.
Overview of Google Wave | Technology | guardian.co.uk
The new rules of news | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
You may have noticed – you could hardly miss it – the blizzard of anniversary stories last month about the fall of Lehman Brothers , an event that helped spark last year's financial meltdown . The coverage reminded me that journalists failed to do their jobs before last year's crisis emerged, and have continued to fail since then.