http://www.twitip.com/lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-parts-6-7-8/ Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.twitip.com/lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-parts-6-7-8/#comment-64598 mastepoc Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:57:19 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=2152#comment-64598 Cool post, but just realised you've got a new design. It looks awesome man, much better than the old one! Nice one! :D Cool post, but just realised you’ve got a new design. It looks awesome man, much better than the old one! Nice one!

]]> http://www.twitip.com/lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-parts-6-7-8/#comment-44294 CrystalsQuest Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:45:09 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=2152#comment-44294 Interesting point, Brice, and thanks for the compliment, but I'm not 100% sure the papers can be laid to rest just yet. I think if newspapers play to their strengths: journalistic training, background checking, a regular publishing schedule (and lets not forget, it's something you can take into a certain room of the house with you! Hopefully nobody's tweeting from there yet...) and then develop a few unique twists of their own, there's still going to be a niche there for them. After all, when computers and email came along we all thought we'd end up with a paperless office, right ? ;) I found it fascinating to read, in Seth Godin's free report about going viral, he talks about how giving away his book online actually led to an <em>increase</em> in hardcopy sales. I think there's always going to be that fundamental desire to hold something solid in your hand. At least in the foreseeable future, anyway. What do the rest of you guys think? Would Twitter & Social Media ever convince you to ditch the newspaper entirely? Interesting point, Brice, and thanks for the compliment, but I’m not 100% sure the papers can be laid to rest just yet.
I think if newspapers play to their strengths: journalistic training, background checking, a regular publishing schedule (and lets not forget, it’s something you can take into a certain room of the house with you! Hopefully nobody’s tweeting from there yet…) and then develop a few unique twists of their own, there’s still going to be a niche there for them. After all, when computers and email came along we all thought we’d end up with a paperless office, right ?
I found it fascinating to read, in Seth Godin’s free report about going viral, he talks about how giving away his book online actually led to an increase in hardcopy sales. I think there’s always going to be that fundamental desire to hold something solid in your hand. At least in the foreseeable future, anyway.
What do the rest of you guys think? Would Twitter & Social Media ever convince you to ditch the newspaper entirely?

]]> http://www.twitip.com/lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-parts-6-7-8/#comment-44116 Brice Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:14:28 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=2152#comment-44116 Interesting article once again! In addition to the strength of immediacy in twitter, and you alluded to this with the bushfires/obama comment, but another strength of twitter is how viral it can be. Now this may be obvious, but if people are using twitter to report news, we can all kiss the newspapers goodbye. A couple of decades ago, we were using newspapers to find out what was happening first. Today, twitter, facebook and blogs are taking over. The impact of twitter's viral effect might be surprising. For instance, will we really want these superficial tweets supplying us our daily news or will we just use these tweets to seek out more information in blogs? If people stop at the tweets, we could have a largely misinformed public. But either way the newspaper is dead. Interesting article once again! In addition to the strength of immediacy in twitter, and you alluded to this with the bushfires/obama comment, but another strength of twitter is how viral it can be. Now this may be obvious, but if people are using twitter to report news, we can all kiss the newspapers goodbye. A couple of decades ago, we were using newspapers to find out what was happening first. Today, twitter, facebook and blogs are taking over. The impact of twitter’s viral effect might be surprising. For instance, will we really want these superficial tweets supplying us our daily news or will we just use these tweets to seek out more information in blogs? If people stop at the tweets, we could have a largely misinformed public. But either way the newspaper is dead.

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