citizen journalism is not: melbourne airport example

timing could not have been more opportune, there was some debate after my posting on citizen journalism.
so here’s the problem with selling twitter as a mainstream news source: without fact checking it’s just one big rumour mill.
see what happens when jonoh tells the world that there is a fire on a plane today in melbourne. [...]

busted by facebook: kyle doyle and the sickie

so i originally posted the full name and details of everyone involved, but now that sick boy has taken down his public facebook page, i think it only nice to anonymise.
the interesting thing about this, besides the obvious lesson, is if there are only two people involved in this exchange, how did this email go [...]

social media case study: drupal.org-part i

few posts ago i wrote about my experiences tweeting about drupal and then having the drupal redesign guys start to follow my tweets.
well, i was immensely impressed with the proactiveness of this approach and i reached out to the team to find out more about the project.
for those of you who don’t already know, [...]

the most responsive social media experience i’ve had: drupal

i think i have just had one of my most responsive customer service experiences ever and i am not even a customer.
drupal is an open source content management platform. i experimented with it for a while but ultimately i found that as i was mainly blogging, wordpress suited me better.
i tweeted about it and found [...]

grassroots social media: nosey in newtown

i stumbled upon this gem of a site: nosey in newtown and it probably represents the best example of social media at a grassroots level.
the blogger known only as “nosey” writes about her local area newtown, an bohemian suburb in the inner west of sydney. it’s a colourful community consisting of an eclectic mix of [...]