Posts from ‘November, 2008’

YouTube - Eyewitness Of Mumbai Attack:
Eyewitness Phillip Badje was in one of the hotels attacked by terrorists in the city of Mumbai, India. Maggie Rodriguez talks to Badje about his experience.

#mumbai | Twitter:
RT @agahran @Poynter E-Media Tidbits: Following Mumbai Attacks via Social Media: Right now, the Indian city of.. http://tinyurl.com/6nnu9w

YouTube - mumbai attack bomb blast and firing live video 26th november.
Twitter:
RT @agahran @Poynter E-Media Tidbits: Following Mumbai Attacks via Social Media: Right now, the Indian city of.. http://tinyurl.com/6nnu9w

SHARON OTTERMAN,Blogging at a Snail’s Pace - NYT 112108:
If her blog, bgblogging.wordpress.com, sounds slow and meandering, it is. But that’s the point. Ms. Ganley, 51, is part of a small, quirky movement called slow blogging.
The practice is inspired by the slow food movement, which says that fast food is destroying local traditions and healthy eating [...]

Interesting post on building specialized communities on top of Twitter. StockTwits is one example. I saw tweets from @infoarbitrage that looked like “$C” which my screenreader vocalized as “Canadian dollar.” These invariably led to discussions of Citigroup, not the Looney. Now I know that “$C” is a cue for StockTwits.
Information Arbitrage: Twitter: I Can See [...]

Good back story on Twitter. When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD:
It’s quite a clever idea, although–so far–not a money-making one.
To try to goose that, Twitter’s board replace the engineer who created Twitter, Jack Dorsey, with another founder, Evan Williams, who had served as its [...]