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Had the honor to present some data from yesterday’s VP debate at Bloomberg TV’s “Money Moves” show. I showed some Twitter visualization highlighting the different topics at play, as well as people’s perception of who won the debate (hint: there are a surprising number of people who think Ryan won Biden…) More below: [...] This is a cross post for the Truthiness in Social Media Symposium which took place at Harvard University, March 6th 2012. The more we use social media, the more seasoned we become at assessing the trustworthiness of information that we come across. With rumors constantly flying around, famous celebrities are often mistaken to be dead, [...] Had the pleasure to participate in the Hackers/Hack meetup at the Boston Globe last night, where we continued the never-ending Journalism 2.0 discussion. I’m so used to being surrounded by folks from the tech world, that this meetup was quite refreshing as it had mostly non-tech journalists as participants. The meetup began with a presentation [...] I just came back from News Foo, an un-conference for technologists, academics and journalists in Phoenix on the future of news. The following post details my thoughts, heavily inspired by the conversations and sessions I had the privilege to be a part of. There are a growing number of algorithms that are deciding what topics [...] With all the excitement about Tunisia and the numerous debates on whether this was/is another “Twitter Revolution”, it was the perfect time to dig into Clay Shirky’s recently published piece ‘The Political Power of Social Media’ in the Journal for Foreign Affairs. I actually like the journal and usually buy a copy, but sadly there’s [...] Towards the end of Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars, there’s a detailed description of an hour long meeting that the author had with President Obama at the oval office. He recounts the scene with such detail, that I felt as if I was there in the room. The body language, attitude, charisma and humor. At the [...] We often experience the clash of contexts that happen on social media sites. We all have a different perception of what is funny or what is considered true. We are used to dealing separately with each of our friend groups. However, with many social media services, all [...] |
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