Celeb war gets nasty in Twitterverse! - Trends News - IBNLive

Celeb war gets nasty in Twitterverse! - Trends News - IBNLive: "Virtual linen being washed on Twitter ain't new and ad-man Suhel Seth and filmmaker Pritish Nandy took it to new heights today. From calling each other names on public forum, to nasty remarks, none of them left any stone unturned to the amusement of fellow Twiterrati.
Twitter spats have been around for a while now. The West has had ample examples of celebrities lashing out at each other.
Well this is not the first time celebs got catty on Twitter in India. Their public display of dislike and hatred have been quite evident in the past as well."

The Royal Wedding: Twitter trends - a royal sweep

News from The Associated Press: "As Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot, Associated Press journalists are hunting down the most interesting details, from Westminster to points around the globe. Here's the latest on the big event."

Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders

Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders: "Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS.” We’re still gathering details, but here’s the official stuff:"

The Hindu: the sparring continues

The Hoot Story Page - media, press, subcontinent, media ethics, media watch, media research, media conflict, media gender, community radio, Unescos: "The Hindu of April 23, 2011 carried on Page 15 of the Chennai edition your refutation of a report that was not carried in The Hindu. Fairness demands that you publish my account of the issue of the coverage of A. Raja relating to the Telecom licences and 2G spectrum allocation that is given below:
At the meeting of the Board of directors of Kasturi and Sons in January, I had specifically raised the issue of the biased coverage of the 2G spectrum scandal. While Raja was in office, even as evidence was mounting and there were widespread calls for his resignation, The Hindu did not demand his resignation. On the other hand, it functioned as an apologist for Raja and even on the day of his resignation carried an interview with him on the front page, with the transcript published inside. In this interview as well as the one on May 22, 2010, there were no hard questions but only the obvious ones designed to elicit ready, scripted answers. The entire coverage up to the point of his resignation was tailored to make him look good."

Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’

Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’: "Facebook’s increasingly ubiquitous ‘Like’ button is getting a new friend: the Send button. Click on a webpage that has the Send button integrated, and you’ll be prompted to share it with any of your Facebook Groups, your Facebook friends, or any standard email address. In other words, where the Like button is designed to let you quickly share content with all of your Facebook friends, the Send button is for sharing with a subset of them."

German plagiarism scandal widens - Europe, World - The Independent

German plagiarism scandal widens - Europe, World - The Independent: "The European Parliament’s vice president has become the latest among a growing number of high profile German politicians to face allegations that they plagiarised large amounts of other people’s academic work in order to obtain a university doctorate."

Allegations of paid news absurd and defamatory: N. Ram

The Hindu : News / National : Allegations of paid news absurd and defamatory: N. Ram

Re-Tweeting (Not-So) Humble Promoters - WSJ.com

Heard & Scene: Humblebrag - WSJ.com: "In response, Harris Wittels, a standup comedian and a writer on the NBC series 'Parks and Recreation,' created a Twitter feed called Humblebrag, which compiles examples of the offense. For instance, after he won his Academy Award for 'Toy Story 3,' the director Lee Unkrich tweeted: 'Just in case you think all this has gone to my head, within 36 hours of winning the Oscar, I was back home plunging a clogged toilet.' That ended up on Humblebrag."

Web proves an unlikely saviour for investigative journalism - Online, Media - The Independent

Web proves an unlikely saviour for investigative journalism - Online, Media - The Independent: "We're often told that the digital age has curtailed our attention span. Our patience is sorely tested by anything that doesn't grab us instantly; lengthy blog posts are routinely suffixed with 'TLTR' (too long to read) and if you're still with me now – some 50 words in – you should give yourself a pat on the back because conventional wisdom deems you to be one of a dying breed."

The Power of Words

The Hindu : News / National : Living our Values: Code of Editorial Values

The Hindu : News / National : Living our Values: Code of Editorial Values

Is Indian Express now a pro-establishment paper? « churumuri

Is Indian Express now a pro-establishment paper? « churumuri: "RITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: The Indian Express of Ramnath Goenka is an unputdownable chapter in the book of Indian journalism. Unlike many of its English counterparts—whose grammar was constricted by Wren & Martin, and the Raj—Express was the archetypal desi bully.

“Anti-establishment,” was the Express‘ calling card."

SAVE The Hindu Newspaper

SAVE The Hindu Newspaper: "newspaper on April-20,2011.
Letter from N. Ravi, Editor, on the recent happenings in The Hindu
April 20, 2011
Dear colleagues,
Even as we are entering the second, and what might turn out to be a prolonged, phase of conflict and turbulence in the institution, I write to seek your understanding."

Twitter Looks to Widen Appeal - WSJ.com

Twitter Looks to Widen Appeal - WSJ.com: "The San Francisco company, which lets users broadcast and view short messages, wants to make it easier for new users to navigate the service and help longtime users find interesting content.

While Twitter has more than 200 million registered accounts, it doesn't say how many are active users. Users discuss a variety of topics, but some people—especially adults—view the service as a vehicle for celebrities to broadcast their thoughts online."

Online-Only Publication Nabs Its Second Pulitzer

Online-Only Publication Nabs Its Second Pulitzer: "ProPublica, an online journalism outlet, was announced today as one of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners. This is the organization’s second Pulitzer; its first was awarded in 2010."

msnbc video: How social media makes businesses more personal

msnbc video: How social media makes businesses more personal

Pulitzer Prize Winners For 2011 Announced

Pulitzer Prize Winners For 2011 Announced: "The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The New York Times and Los Angeles Times each won two awards, with the LA Times winning the coveted Public Service Pulitzer for its expose of corruption in the small town of Bell, and one for feature photography. The New York Times won one award for its international news coverage of Russia. Business writer David Leonhardt also won for Commentary.

Among the other winners:

—the Washington Post won for breaking news photography of the earthquake in Haiti.

—the Chicago Sun-Times won for local reporting for its coverage of violence in the city.

—online news outlet ProPublica won its second Pulitzer in two years, this time for national reporting for its coverage of Wall Street.

—Mike Keefe of the Denver Post won for editorial cartooning."

RIP Yahoo Buzz

RIP Yahoo Buzz: "Yahoo Buzz, once an attempt to counter aggregation sites, like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon, is being discontinued.

Yahoo announced the move on its Yahoo Buzz site Monday. “This was a hard decision,” the company wrote in its post, which notes that the site will shut down on April 21. “However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations.”

Yahoo reps could not be reached for further comment."

The Alexa Blog: A new way to find websites

The Alexa Blog: A new way to find websites: "Hello, I'm Wayne, and I'm an engineer here at Alexa. I know I’m biased, but I’m having a lot of fun with Alexa’s new site finder and I thought I would share. The site finder is different type of search engine, one that is designed to find websites about things instead of web pages that contain things. Here, let me explain. When I am looking for something online, I usually go to my favorite search engine, type in a few words, and hit search. What I get is a list of pages that contain those words ranked by some sort of measure of relevance and importance, which often is exactly what I want. Examples of this include searching for help with a coding problem, looking for song lyrics, and finding documentation. Sometimes, however, I’m more interested in finding an entire website devoted to a topic. There is a big difference between sites that have pages that contain the word “woodworking” and sites about woodworking, and with the standard keyword searches we’re used to it can be difficult to find the latter (a website about a topic) in the sea of the former (pages that mention the topic)."

Five myths about the future of journalism - The Washington Post

Five myths about the future of journalism - The Washington Post: "There are few things journalists like to discuss more than, well, themselves and the long-term prospects for their industry. How long will print newspapers survive? Are news aggregation sites the future? Or are online paywalls — such as the one the New York Times just launched — the way to go? As media organizations plot their future, it’s worth discarding some misconceptions about what it will take to keep the press from becoming yesterday’s news."

Media Watch: How Editors are managed

Media Watch: How Editors are managed: "Editors can be broadly divided into two categories: those with substantial circulations spread over large areas of the country; and those with regional circulations. The latter, naturally, have smaller circulations, though there are exceptions (the best example being the Ananda Bazar Patrika). However, both kinds of editors have trouble with two sets of people: the Government and the managements. The views of Government and owners are not necessarily the same, but on one point most owners of publications seem to agree: that their editors should not take criticism of Government too far. And they agree on this because most owners are vulnerable: having business interests apart from news papers, they are aware that if Government wants to, it can create significant barriers between them and their profits from other factories."

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Facebook makes money from user’s data | Deccan Chronicle

Facebook makes money from user’s data | Deccan Chronicle

The best social media marketing. | From The Head Of Zeus Jones

The best social media marketing. | From The Head Of Zeus Jones: "We recently went through a fairly lengthy process of weeding through hundreds upon hundreds of examples of social media marketing done by companies to find the best for a client presentation. It was tedious beyond belief because there’s actually quite a lot of crap. I’m guessing there’s probably a similar search or two going on out there at the moment, so I thought I’d share our best of list, You may not agree but at least it might save you some time."

P. Sainath on Indian Media

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Carter on social media and uprisings

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Carter on social media and uprisings

Mr. K. Srinivas Reddy | hybiz.tv

Mr. K. Srinivas Reddy | hybiz.tv: "Mr. K. Srinivas Reddy, the City Editor of The Hindu. In the Hindu we have gone beyond the duty of disseminating information and realising that we have a great role to play to improve the quality of life. This provides a platform for interface. The metro rail project is a massive project to handle which has raised the aspirations and the apprehensions too. Speaking further on the apprehensions on the rehabilitation of the people who are going to be displaced, apprehensions are raised against the very system of metro rail. This interaction would help us understand the things better. This would be an interactive meeting and would provide us better insights."

5 Tips for Developing News Stories Via Social Media - TVSpy

5 Tips for Developing News Stories Via Social Media - TVSpy: "As WABC found out last night in trying to glean information on Facebook about a plane’s apparent technical malfunction, social media can be a tricky place to develop news stories."

Employers look for the tweet smell of success - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

Employers look for the tweet smell of success - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent: "Academics and private tuition firms are reporting a “growing trend” in people taking Twitter lessons, as well as in other social media. They say that more and more firms are expecting their staff to be able to use social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn as part of their jobs and that, as a result, are sending increasing numbers of employees for private tuition."

Social Media Supports Anna Hazare’s Corruption Motion | Globalthoughtz

Social Media Supports Anna Hazare’s Corruption Motion | Globalthoughtz: "Anti-Corruption crusade has rocked in virtual world too, supports of Anna Hazare flooded tweets & statuses over country’s corruption scenario. Good to notice that it has not only drawn numbers from Delhi to Jantar Mantar but also on Facebook & Twitter platform. In cyberspace as well Facebook and Twitter became the bastions of opinion on the Internet. You can easily find abundance of pages, statuses, events and tweets in support of the movement."

Read this before you start blogging for money | AndD Journal

Read this before you start blogging for money | AndD Journal: "I started my blogging career in last moths of 2006 and now I am affirmed as a teenage millionaire or a celebrity blogger by the people. I am the owner of some successful blogs like www.anddjournal.info and www.techravings.info (You can read more about me here) and I am making pretty handsome money from internet. You can find a lot more about me in press releases at:"

News : Two-year MCJ in Osmania University

The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Two-year MCJ in OU: "From the ensuing academic year, the Master of Communication and Journalism (MCJ) course offered by the Osmania University will be a two-year course.

The University has decided to club the one-year courses -- Bachelor of Communication and Journalism (BCJ) and MCJ -- to offer the two-year course in tune with the UGC guidelines that Masters courses have to be of two-year duration. The notification of the Osmania University for its PG entrance issued recently reflected this change.

However, this academic year will also have a separate entrance test for the one-year MCJ course for candidates who have already done their BCJ. So, the two-year MCJ and one-year MCJ will run simultaneously in the 2011-12 academic year. From the 2012-13 academic year, it will be a purely two-year course. But candidates who have finished their BCJ long back and want to join MCJ in 2012-13 will be accommodated through late entry. It means they can directly join MCJ second year after clearing the entrance test."

MCJ Entrance Test Essential Notes by BCJ / MCJ Entrance Test topper at reddy2007

Facebook launches page for journalists | Deccan Chronicle

Facebook launches page for journalists | Deccan Chronicle

Press Awards 2011: Guardian wins Newspaper of the Year | Media | The Guardian

Press Awards 2011: Guardian wins Newspaper of the Year | Media | The Guardian: "The Guardian's groundbreaking journalism and innovation were recognised at the Press Awards where it was named Newspaper of the Year. Accepting the award on behalf of the Guardian, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger praised his colleagues as 'a fabulous team"

How I nearly got scammed on Facebook - Tech Talk - CBS News

How I nearly got scammed on Facebook - Tech Talk - CBS News: "You may remember the now-famous New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner depicting a couple of canines in front of a computer with one telling the other that 'on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.' Talk about prescience. And that was in 1993, long before most Internet flim-flammers began running their con games on the rest of us."

TRS looks for writers,poets from Telangana

Times of India Publications: "The TRS,which is launching the daily,Namaste Telangana, has asked its leaders and cadres to take up publicity campaign for the paper.District party presidents have been made in-charges of the campaign and every mandal party president given charge of the subscription campaign.The target for every mandal-level leader is at least 1,000 subscriptions in the first three months of the launch of the paper."

Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says

Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says: "Twitter is developing a new kind of profile page for business accounts, similar to Facebook Pages, reports London-based Sarah Shearman of BrandRepublic tonight, based on conversations with multiple unnamed sources familiar with the plans."

Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film | Brain Pickings

Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film | Brain Pickings: "It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking at pretty pictures; it’s because we believe the discipline is an important sensemaking mechanism for today’s data deluge, a new kind of journalism that helps frame the world and what matters in it in a visual, compelling, digestible way."

Are You Blogging or Doing Social Media for SERPs & Links? | SEMClubHouse - Key Relevance Blog

Are You Blogging or Doing Social Media for SERPs & Links? | SEMClubHouse - Key Relevance Blog: "A lot of companies hear a lot about the social media space. Most of what they hear revolves around Blogs, Digg and Facebook and immediately they think “I have to be there!” Whether its because its the newest fad, their competition is doing it or that they’ve been shown that it can get the SERPs or better yet links, a lot of times companies never stop to look beyond the shiny pretty wrapper of social media to look at what’s really involved when heading down the social media path. At the end of their path, generally it ends in thinking social media has failed them. Why? The major reason is entering into the space for the wrong reason, like acquiring links or getting more footholds in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)."

Cyberspace abuzz with Dhoni, WC searches - Hindustan Times

Cyberspace abuzz with Dhoni, WC searches - Hindustan Times
India's World Cup triumph against Sri Lanka has created ripples in the virtual world as well, with 'World Cup 2011 photos', 'India world champions', and 'Dhoni family' being the top three most searched terms in India on Sunday morning, according to data by Google Trends

Errors & Omissions: Accuracy can disappear when a headline-writer is pushed for time - Errors & Omissions, Corrections - The Independent

Errors & Omissions: Accuracy can disappear when a headline-writer is pushed for time - Errors & Omissions, Corrections - The Independent: "A disastrous headline was published on Tuesday. Above a report of poll findings about the Libya campaign appeared these words: 'Seven out of 10 want British troops out and fear 'another Iraq'.'

The opening paragraph of the story said that respondents to the survey feared that British 'armed forces will be sucked into a long Iraq-style military operation in Libya'. That was based on the finding that 71 per cent of respondents agreed with the proposition that 'I am concerned that the military action in Libya could result in Britain being dragged into a prolonged conflict like the Iraq war'."

Quick Twitter Tips: A Twitter Guide For Beginners

Quick Twitter Tips: A Twitter Guide For Beginners: "Twitter can be an intimidating jumble of # symbols, RTs, DMs, @'s, and other code-like shorthand to a Twitter newbie.

To help get the hang of it, we've put together a Twitter guide for Twitter beginners with nine tips for how to communicate on Twitter, make sense of it, and make the most of it."

The 10 Commandments of the Social Web - SocialTimes.com

The 10 Commandments of the Social Web - SocialTimes.com: "Over the past year I have been covering Facebook and social networks obsessively. The more I write and the more I read, the more complex the social web becomes. The social web is the part of the internet where people socialize and interact with each other. It can be as simple as forums but the social web has come to embody a limitless number of tools from instant messaging to blogs to micro-blogs to social networks to lifestreaming services and more."

50 Fastest Growing Niche Social Media Sites and Networks | Internet Service Deals

50 Fastest Growing Niche Social Media Sites and Networks | Internet Service Deals: "Everyone knows about social media sites like Digg and Reddit, but the fact is, they are incredibly hard to penetrate, and the traffic they offer is often superficial. For many bloggers, niche sites are a refreshing alternative to these behemoths, offering more targeted links and a much smaller base of competition. Read on to find out if there’s a niche site that will work for you."

Facebook will be worth $234 billion by 2015

Facebook will be worth $234 billion by 2015: "Facebook will have market value of $234 billion by 2015, up from its current valuation of $85 billion, according to an analysis by brokerage firm Wedbush Securities that analyzes the valuations of private companies."