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This new feature is a nice fillip on Twitter, but it could be better. If it automatically located you, so you always got what was happening around you instead of what you said your home city was, it might be a very valuable ad-hoc guide to wherever you're opening your laptop. That would require the browser return you location. HTML 5 has geolocation reporting, but support for HTML 5 is only beginning to roll out. Fortunately, some mobile Twitter apps, like TweetDeck, already allow you to see Tweets that are geo-tagged as near you. Also, Twitter would be wise to put this feature on the Twitter.com pre-sign-in home page, to make it more clear to new users what Twitter has to offer them.

via Twitter adds local trends to Web site | Webware – CNET.

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The New York Times Online has started selling packages of ads that appear specifically for visitors who arrive through social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Advertisers can buy certain shares of such readers, typically around 25%, so a page receiving a million visitors via social media would show a participating marketer's ad to 250,000 of them.

via Twitter: News Publishers Want Money From Tweets – Advertising Age – MediaWorks.

How to Present While People are Twittering | Pistachio.

Really good suggestions for both the audience and the presenter.

Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog.

Interesting story that looks at how many subscribers various news paper sites have — that is RSS feed subscribers. The suggestion is that twitters are more effective for attracting eyeballs.

I think I may agree with this idea. I know I have collected an interesting list of sites’ RSS feeds and I’ve got them in a folder as live bookmarks. Yet, do I systematically read them? Not as often or as systematically as I’d like. It is just pretty time-consuming to go through them all at one sitting.

I do, however, have several Twitter clients which I can run in the background, and glance at as they show up. There are lots of notes that do attact my attention and if a headline has a URL with it, I’ll often check it out.

This sounds like a good thing to make into an assignment for my students who I’ll ask to compare and contrast and reflect on which method is most satisfying to them as users, and which seems more effective for a publisher.

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“We’ve begun treating as trivial subjects that we once took seriously,” he says. Naturally, Wasik is worried about coming off like a scolding schoolmarm, especially because his cure for our Internet-fired ADD is a bit obvious: Slow down and consider the long view. His scorn, after all, isn’t just directed at us. “This book was written out of a terror in seeing what the Internet had done to me. It’s a work of self-loathing.”

via The Guy Behind Flash Mobs Tackles His Frankenweb Monster.