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Feb. 7: New use for Twitter: Pleading for mercy from Bostonians (1)

You just have to feel sorry for Nestlé tonight. Earlier today, the Associated Press reports, thousands of Butterfinger candy bars — 900 lbs. of them — were dumped in Copley Square in Boston. With a giant note: Photo: Pawngo.com — Wes Welker is a receiver for the New England Patriots. He led the league in receptions this year. But he [...]

Feb. 5: An inside view of today’s Super Bowl from the Indianapolis Star

Scott Goldman – director of digital and visuals at the Indianapolis Star – is on duty at the Super Bowl today. And he’s tweeting like mad. Around 3 p.m. EST, he tweeted: An hour later, he had found the Star‘s seats. He tweeted: Here is the view from those seats: Scott refers to Star sportswriter Phillip Wilson, who’s livechatting from [...]

Feb. 2: Inside the special Super Bowl section wrapped around today’s Indianapolis Star (2)

Earlier today, we took a look at great Super Bowl advance pages from Luke Knox of the Boston Globe. Now it’s time to check out a bit of the 24-page special section wrapping today’s Indianapolis Star. Director of digital and visuals Scott Goldman tells us: Design director Phil Mahoney gets the kudos for the cover design and most of the [...]

Jan. 31: A recap of the Poynter chat today with Scott Goldman

The live chat I hosted this afternoon at Poytner.org — with guest Scott Goldman, director of digital and visuals at the Indianapolis Star — went over pretty well. I was worried that we might not get enough great questions. I needn’t have worried. The crowd had fabulous questions. And Scott provided terrific answers. Poynter has asked me to contribute to [...]

Jan. 21: For your consideration…

So, what does a frontrunning presidential candidate do on primary day in South Carolina? Laundry, evidently. That’s Mitt and Ann Romney doing a load of clothes this afternoon. It was tweeted by their son, Tagg Romney. Within five minutes of polls closing, about half of the major networks had declared Newt Gingrich the winner of the state’s Republican primary. The [...]

Jan. 9: A little TOO much information, perhaps, about Twitter users (1)

Gavin Sheridan, innovation director of Storiful, blogs today about his attempts to put geocoded Twitter info to use in finding patterns that could be turned into stories. He ran searches on Twitter and fed the results into Datasift. What you’re seeing in the map below are 135,000 tweets over this past weekend from users who mentioned GOP candidates by name. [...]

Jan. 9: Tim Tebow’s heroics rack up amazing stats… on Twitter

Sometimes, Twitter is such an amazing tool for journalists and for anyone interested in keeping up with news. At other times, however, it still seems downright silly. This is one of those times. Darren Rovell of CNBC spotted Twitter‘s announcement about the amazing load of tweets during yesterday’s overtime win by the Denver Broncos and put those numbers into perspective [...]

Dec. 8, 2011: A new marketing slogan for Twitter could be yours to discover

No doubt you’ve heard about the new Twitter site redesign that’s coming soon to a browser near you. What you might not have heard: There’s a new marketing campaign that goes along with it. The problem is: The province of Ontario, Canada, also uses that same slogan. It’s even on license plates there. Kenyon Wallace of the Toronto Star reports: [...]

Dec. 8, 2011: The Guardian tracks the spread of rumors via Twitter

Fascinating stuff in today’s Guardian on the role of social media in the English riots earlier this year. James Ball of the Guardian writes: The role of Twitter and Facebook in the Arab spring – though arguably overstated – was widely praised, at least in the west, and led to eager debate on the world such technologies were enabling. The [...]

Nov. 14, 2011: Colorado State student paper follows an athlete for a week

The Collegian — the student paper at Colorado State University in Fort Colllins, Colo. –published an interesting project on its web site today. Visual managing editor Greg Mees tells us: We’ve been working on this for about a month. We followed a football player around for a week and then our sports department traveled with the team to Vegas. The [...]

Nov. 1, 2011: Mexican soccer team replaces jersey names with Twitter names

All you Twitter phreaks are gonna love this one… Friday, a Mexican soccer club — the Club de Fútbol Jaguares de Chiapas — unveiled new jerseys that include an unusual twist: Instead of the name of the player, the jersey includes the player’s Twitter name. From top to bottom: The sponsor The jersey number (note the little Twitter bird icon) [...]

Oct. 10, 2011: It’s going to be one of those days… (1)

It might not surprise you that I get a lot of my blog material via Google Alerts. I have a dizzying array of them. Some days my Alerts pull in some fascinating stuff. And some days I don’t get squat. Today, apparently, is one of the latter. Among my Google Alerts is one for my own name. This is how [...]

Sept. 22, 2011: Amusing, sure. But is this Twitter feed for real? (1)

Mark Davidson, ostensibly a California-based social networking guru of some sort — allegedly had his Twitter feed hijacked today. By a former employee. The results have been making the rounds this evening. But something smells funny. Normally, you read a  Twitter feed from the bottom up. I’ve rearranged this to read in “proper” order — from the top down — [...]

Aug. 1, 2011: How to make sure you’re making good use of Twitter

The folks at the Boston Globe know how to make themselves more aware of their Twitter use. They’re posting screens around their newsroom that show their various web pages. But up at the top is a screen that shows the latest staff tweets. The Globe‘s “creative technologist” Chris Marstall writes: We’re calling the project Information Radiator, and eventually it will [...]

July 29, 2011: So why is this unimpressive chart impressing so many people tonight?

I’ve bent over backwards to stay out of the debt ceiling debate. But after seeing a bunch of the folks I follow breathlessly retweet this tonight, I can’t sit still any longer. The story is that President Barack Obama‘s unprecedented Twitter campaign today — in which his operation pretty much flooded the interwebs with updates about the debate and listing [...]

July 8, 2011: Space shuttle media gaffes… and more wonderful shuttle graphics (3)

We’ve seen the last launch of the U.S. space shuttle program. As you can see from this photo posted today by Tom Burton of the Orlando Sentinel. Read more about the launch in the Sentinel. Despite the iffy weather, the launch went off pretty smoothly except for a one brief, nerve-wracking moment. With just over 30 seconds to go, there [...]

May 27, 2011: Inspirational quote for the day

Can I get an amen on that? Find Overhead in the Newsroom‘s Web site here and its Twitter feed here.

May 6, 2011: Leave it to those geniuses at the Wall Street Journal… (2)

…to find a way to embed a bar chart into a tweet. Now, that’s the cleverest thing I’ve seen in a long, long time. Next up, I suspect: Stipple portraits in tweets. Find the Wall Street Journal‘s twitter feed here. Thanks to Harvard’s Nieman Lab for tweeting this today.

April 5, 2011: William Couch to leave newspapers and join Twitter

William Couch — an interactive designer who played a huge, huge role in building USA Today‘s uber-successful apps for the Android, iPhone and iPad — announced tonight he will be leaving USA Today and joining Twitter as a software engineer. He made the announcement earlier today on Twitter. Of course. William writes today in his blog: Twitter has witnessed phenomenal [...]

March 15, 2011: Yes, it’s intentional

This year’s Final Four logo might seem a bit familiar to you. That’s intentional, someone from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tweeted today. Follow the NASA twitter feed here.

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