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Twitter Outage: What Happened - Posted August 7, 2009
Okay, the Twitter outage yesterday wasn't the end of the world. But it did put a crimp in our usual routine and made gathering breaking news and information that much more challenging for a good part of the day.
Yesterday, Twitter said its technical difficulties were a result of a denial... [FishBowlNY]
Jason & Matt Talk About Twitter's Downtime, Ben Stein and G.I. Joe On The Menu - Posted August 7, 2009
Today on the media- bistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven scanned the news for the day's biggest media headlines.
The denial of service attacks on Twitter, Facebook and other sites yesterday was the biggest story of the day, since it crippled many of... [FishBowlNY]
WSJ Implements New Conduct Rules For Twitter - Posted May 14, 2009
So it turns out that Twitter can be very helpful to journalists, whether they're promoting their own work, seeking sources or just looking for what everyone is talking about. In fact, it's the perfect way to find out what everyone's talking about.
But it's no surprise that media companies like News Corp.... [FishBowlNY]
Battle of the Twitter Titans? Microsoft and Google Both Express Interest - Posted April 10, 2009
Regardless of the fact Twitter makes no money, and thus far no one has figured out a way to make money from the microblogging service that has saturated the media landscape in the past few months, everyone wants a piece (including Facebook, who recently based their enormously unpopular redesign on Twittery... [FishBowlNY]
Michael Wolff on MySpace and Why Rupert Murdoch Loves 'Cretins' - Posted December 2, 2008
So Michael Wolff's long-awaited bio of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns The News, hit shelves yesterday. Portfolio has a round-up reactions (the Times did not love). Over at BusinessWeek Jon Fine says that "Wolff's Murdoch mumbles, dissembles, has cultural sensibilities predating Elvis Presley if not Rudy Vallee." Fine... [FishBowlNY]
The New York Times Wants to be Your Friend! - Posted November 26, 2008
Back when the New York Times launched their social networking site TimesPeople we agreed to give it a whirl but expressed hesitation over adding another social networking start up to our list — why bother when Facebook was such familiar, user-friendly, one-stop-shop? Well looks like the Times may agree with... [FishBowlNY]
Wired: Blogs Are Dead - Posted October 22, 2008
Wired Magazine, which usually cheerleads everything, has declared blogging dead:
Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies. Part of that simplicity was a lack of support for pictures, audio, and videoclips. At the time, multimedia content... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 19, 2008
What Would Allah Blog? Jeffrey Fleishman has a terrifically interesting piece about religious and secular Muslims duking it out on Facebook throughout the Middle East. We think our culture wars are hot -- kids in Cairo give secular counterparts wake-up calls so they don't miss the dawn prayers.
How Bad Is... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted March 10, 2008
Al Martinez Discovers Liars... but somehow still hasn't found a point.
Go Ahead, Make My Clip: Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make film clips available for trading on Facebook. Your friends who speak entirely in movie quotes just got that much more annoying.
Citizen McCaw: A documentary chronicling... [FishBowlLA]
Social Networking Gets Its Own Beat--Cathy Taylor at MediaPost - Posted February 21, 2008
MediaPost has hired journo columnist and blogger (adverganza.com) Cathy Taylor to track social networking web sites, in its feature, Social Media Insider.
We thought this was kinda interesting, considering MediaPost generally deals with topics about, well, the media. Is social networking really considered "media?"
Taylor will find out. A former top editor... [FishBowlLA]
Red The Book: Read The Future Of Writing - Posted November 28, 2007
Amy Goldwasser and her troupe of 58 teen authors are in L.A. to celebrate the release of Red: The Next Generation of American Writers -- Teenage Girls -- on What Fires Up Their Lives Today.
The book's site, redthebook.com, functions a bit like Facebook with a complete social network and blogs... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 25, 2007
Fighting Fire With Fire: Police shoot and kill an arson suspect near Cal State San Bernardino. Another suspect was arrested.
From The Blogs: We're going to sound like a broken record, but the LAT breaking news blog is fascinating to read -- with everything from FBI updates on arson investigations to little... [FishBowlLA]
