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Colbert, Stephen • Meredith Vieira's inquiry about use of Twitter by prompts naughty response from...
...preceding weeks, Seattle journalists had struggled to make sense of the changes buffeting their profession. Two forums were held, one at the University of Washington titled "Journalism on the Brink" and another at city hall called "A No-Newspaper Town?" Attendees were encouraged to Twitter throughout the meetings, where the conversation was sprinkled with emerging-media jargon about micropayments, super-local news, journalism-as-conversation and the demise of the media as gatekeeper. But only about 40 of the 170 people currently employed by the city's oldest paper will be joining the brave new world at its Web-only...
...those is Monica Guzman, 26, who is fluent in Twitter, Facebook and iPhone and runs the Big Blog on the P-I. She and her colleagues will continue to be based at the same building overlooking Puget Sound, with its iconic globe still spinning on the roof. But as for the shape of the product they'll create, that's constantly morphing. "Part of what I do is the future," Guzman says, referring to her online presence, her immersion in the Seattle buzz and her ability to improve her reporting through public input. But she also acknowledges that what...
...recruiting candidates via its website (www.juryteam.org). There, any member of the public can announce their candidacy for the upcoming European Parliament elections by describing their political interests in an online profile, uploading a photo, and linking to their profiles on other social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Then, rather than the party selecting which candidates to field in a traditional closed-door process, the public decides through text message voting. "The Internet has cut out the middle man in many areas of life, and we're doing the same with politics," Judge told a hundred supporters...
...some 15 years ago on a BBS," says Zhang Kangkang, a renowned novelist and vice chairwoman of the Chinese Writers Association. "It was then that I realized how serious and creative the so-called online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the West, the BBS still prevails in China today as a relatively free place to express dissidence, while no such leeway is allowed in the traditional media. The same rigid censorship that drove millions of users to BBS and other online forums likely also ushered many book readers into...