Microblogging and walled gardens – post SIME debate on status updates and journalism

Over at Citizen Media Watch, Lotta Holmström and Gitta Willén keep publishing great articles based on some of the most interesting material from SIME. Check out their interview with Joi Ito on wether we’ll see a dark period for journalism, their article about music, honesty and Youtube featuring Mia Rose and the latest discussion about microblogging, journalism and Facebook status updates.

Based on a question I asked Net Jacobsson of Facebook on stage at SIME08, they pose the question on how we can or should define microblogging, and if Facebook is not only the world’s biggest photo sharing site like Net claimed, but also the world’s biggest microblogging service.

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But since Facebook status updates are not accessible outside Facebook, the updates behave less like the political arena that for example twitter has become.

Read on at Citizen Media Watch for two great posts discussing what microblogs mean today and their relationship to journalism.

One Response

1. Lotta Holmström says:

   November 28, 2008 at 22:03

   Thanks for the links! We have atleast one more SIME related post coming up before we let the conference go for this year.

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