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I can hardly believe it has been more than a year since I started this blog. Back in those early days, I had hardly any readers. I was writing for myself, but bit by bit some of you started to read. I thank all of you for that. I appreciate your comments, your interest in [...]

Twitter turns 4 in the new year, so I think it’s old enough to learn some manners. Here are my suggestions for Twitter etiquette and style as we head into 2010.  I’m sure I’ve missed some ideas, so feel free to add in the comments.
To tweet or to twitter: I think it has been well-established by [...]

Haven’t done short-takes for a while, so seems like it is time for my list of interesting stuff from around the blogosphere.
Great blogs: I love lists. I think they are a very useful way to convey a lot of information quickly in a format that’s easy to read.  Journalistics has compiled a great list of [...]

Another post in my occasional series, “What the Heck Do You Do On Twitter.” This one is from Juliette Lynch, a senior photojournalism and international relations major at Syracuse University. She loves photography and storytelling, people and traveling, and of course, good conversation and coffee. She blogs at Que Me Mueve and Growing Up Girl.

I’m always [...]

Here’s a look at what my Tweet Cloud looks like. What’s a Tweet Cloud? It’s a blob of  topics you tweet about, with bigger type indicating you talk about the topic more than those with smaller type.
So what does this say about me? I don’t know, although it seems to indicate I’ve been tweeting my [...]

I’m starting a new feature here at Save the Media, called “What the heck do you do on Twitter.” It’s an occasional feature, which in journalism-speak means I’ll do it when I have a chance. The idea is to showcase a variety of people who are using Twitter in creative ways. My emphasis, of course, [...]

A friend, Glenn Coin, has asked me to guest lecture about the ethics of social media for his Utica College journalism class, so I figured I’d blog my lesson plan to save time — and spread the message.
I thought the ethics of social media is a timely topic, given the debate over social media rules [...]

More than a year ago, Brian Stelter had a story in The New York Times about how the social media generation takes it upon themselves to pass on the news they feel is worthwhile. The story contained a seminal quote from an unidentified college student that has become iconic of the new journalism evolving before [...]

Here are some short-takes of interesting stuff about journalism and newspapers that I found around the blogosphere:
Social media rules: The buzz over how news organizations should use (or not use) social media surfaced last spring and then died down again only to come back with a vengeance in recent weeks. The blather gained more steam [...]

David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times, recently visited my stomping grounds, Syracuse University, to talk about Twitter as part of a larger symposium on Cultural Diplomacy. I offered my newswriting students extra credit if they blogged about Pogue for Save the Media.
One savvy student, Paul Kloster, took me up on my offer. [...]