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Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade

Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as … Continue reading

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Sorry Dick, but Twitter is definitely a media entity

At the Dive Into Media conference on Monday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that the company doesn’t see itself as a media entity, although he admitted that it is in the media business. It’s not surprising that Twitter wouldn’t want … Continue reading

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FBI wants help developing a tool to monitor social media

Big Brother is watching. The FBI is requesting a tool to monitor all public social media posts and correlate them in order to help fight crime and terrorism. Read more… Neowin.net

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Memo to media: Supply and demand are out of your hands

There are plenty of reasons why the traditional media business — including the advertising industry — is in the shape it is in, including a failure to move quickly enough to adapt to changing market conditions. But one of the … Continue reading

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Can Yahoo’s new CEO really end the media vs. tech debate?

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Yahoo’s newly appointed CEO Scott Thompson may have only been on the job for three weeks, but he has already made one thing very clear: The discussion over whether Yahoo is a media or tech company … Continue reading

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