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Tips For Live Tweeting An Event Live tweets from an event are a great way to catch people's attention and build a following. Especially if they're done right. I've live tweeted several events, most notably Barack Obama's Inauguration...

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10 Pros And 10 Cons Of Twitter For Journalists Like anything, Twitter has its advantages and disadvantages. Whether you're new to Twitter or not, it's important you're able to identify these and adjust to use Twitter in the best ways possible. Here's...

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How To Verify A Tweet Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the...

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Short And Sweet: A New Generation Of News If it's not in 140 characters or less, you may lose them. They glance at what you say. If you're good, they may spend a few extra seconds. If not, they've moved on. Words. Links. Short, sweet, and...

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The Many Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter Because of its simplicity, Twitter has great potential for many different uses and applications. With a little creativity, the possibilities are nearly endless. A recent survey out of Norway sheds...

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Apple Shutting Down Lala.com

Posted by Andrew Kahn | Posted in News | Posted on 03-05-2010

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Apple will shut down Lala.com May 31, 2010 according to a message posted on the music streaming Web site.  Apple acquired the site in December 2009 and users are now being directed to iTunes with account credit being shifted there as well.  Users will no longer have access to stream the songs they had in their Lala collections and many took to Twitter to voice their opposition of the move.

Are You Ready For An IPad Or Is The IPad Ready For You?

Posted by Lisa Franklin | Posted in Commentary, Reviews | Posted on 12-04-2010

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The iPad has officially been available in the U.S. for over a week now, making it’s grand debut April 3 to the general public. The conversation on Twitter has changed from one of anticipation and ridicule to one of amazement and disdain. What has the iPad replaced and what will replace it? Twitter users report their initial observations and thoughts.

  1. Molly Wood
    mollywood (Undisclosed location) Ok, returned the iPad. Too heavy to replace Kindle, too limited to replace netbook, too representative of closed-system evil to live with.
  2. Pnoze
    Akira67 (France) World’s first iPad marriage proposal http://u.nu/2rt98 (via @GuyKawasaki)
  3. Henrik Fohns
    Funzafunza (Undisclosed location) Who is working on an iPad-Killer? HP, Dell, Nokia & according to Eric Schmidt. Google too: http://j.mp/crUPKS (via @nickbilton)