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Mercury rewrites Orwell … AFR time … Al-Jazeera twit-hacked …
In today’s Media Briefs: Animal Farm on CCTV … Turning back time at The AFR … Front Page of the Day … Stood-down Fairfax ed loses seat chance … Al-Jazeera’s Twitter hacked and more …
READ MOREThe hack who went on the Twitter attack
Ever since Twitter began, it has had a dual function: as a place for sober and pithy commentary, and as a transitional public/private space in which things that would have once remained shared between a few people come to the fore.
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Ed turned pollie … a TomKat special … Anderson Cooper comes out …
In today’s Media Briefs: extra, extra: mag’s special TomKat edition … The hack who went on the Twitter attack … Front Page of the Day … Dark times ahead for News’ publishing unit … Sentia sends Aussie jobs to Malaysia and more …
READ MOREUS court rules that your tweets don’t belong to you
In the case of Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris, a New York judge has ruled that prosecutors are entitled to access Harris’ tweets on the grounds that they are not actually owned by him, reports Mary Long.
READ MORETwitter: cherry-picked publications can break the ’140 rule’
Twitter is known as the internet’s #1 microblogging service and, increasingly, the newswire of preference. The social network now allows select publications to distribute ‘expanded tweets’, reports Ben Popper.
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Fairfax revenue down … tweeting the news … Facebook slows …
The torrent of bad news coming out of Fairfax HQ continued this morning, with job-slashing CEO Greg Hywood announcing downgraded revenue expectations for the rest of the year. Plus other media news.
READ MOREWhy did someone unfollow me on Twitter?
Twitter users inevitably experience the indignity of being unfollowed. According to a recent US study, making “too much noise” is the number one reason for getting ditched in the Twitterverse. Many more are revealed in this All Twitter infographic.
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Media and healthcare in the digital revolution
What implications does the digital revolution have for healthcare, media and society more broadly? Melissa Sweet canvasses a range of topics including Twitter, blogging and nursing, and how they can complement each other.
READ MOREFive strikes and you’re out: this is Twitter, Chinese style
How do Chinese authorities handle a Twitter-esque social media network capable of spreading dissenting voices? With a five strikes and you’re out policy, writes Malcolm Moore.
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Twitter mapping and how we choose our own adventure
Lessons from the latest map of the Australian Twittersphere: #auspol is driven by hardline conservatives, evangelical Christians don’t talk to outsiders, and the South Australian tourism, food and wine fraternity have formed their own little enclave on Planet Adelaide.
READ MOREAustralia’s most successful paper lashes its critics
Critics of The Australian fail to understand how successfully it has become one with its readership. For the worse.
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Simons v The Oz … Press Council backs Latham … new Ten late news …
Over the past week Margaret Simons has been subjected to a sustained attack on her reputation in the pages of The Australian. It’s a non story, says Simons.
READ MORETweeps free to tweet again in Pakistan
In an effort to control communication shared by six million Pakistani Twitter users, the Pakistan government decided on a simple solution — to block it — before reneging eight hours later, reports David Murphy.
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Obama’s win/win
“And in today’s effort to energise a disillusioned base, Barack Obama will be opening a Pinterest account,” tweeted our reliably cynical Bernard Keane.
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Devamation: George Pell pursues legal action over a Deveny tweet
Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers pursued legal action against Twitter after comedian Catherine Deveny tweeted a photo which Pell’s lawyers say “conveys … seriously defamatory imputations”.
READ MORETagged: the most ‘engaging’ US social media network
According to prominent metrics company comScore, it isn’t Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest that engages users the most. It is a San Francisco based social network called Tagged, writes Sam Laird.
READ MOREMarketing on social media: where the value lies
What are the pros and cons of the most popular social networks and which offer the best solutions for marketers? This nifty infographic explains all.
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Using social media to augment teaching resources in healthcare
Sydney’s University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine has began to dip its feet in social media, testing Twitter for new ways it can enhance teaching resources, writes Associate Professor Mavis Duncanson and Dr Zelda Doyle.
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Tweet for your supper: the new wave of cash-for-comment
Celebrity tweeting is fast becoming one of the most valuable commodities on the internet, writes Dylan Barber. After Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashians made it big, now Australian celebrities are cashing in.
READ MORERomney’s new foreign policy spokesman deletes 800 tweets
Serial troller and prolific online rabble rouser Richard Grenell loved to cause a scene on Twitter, but not anymore. Appointed Mitt Romney’s new foreign policy spokesman, he’s slashed more than 800 of his old tweets, reports David Weigel.
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Latest on the hacking scandal by guest correspondent Rupert
This just in, Rupert Murdoch’s twitter stream, as transcribed by Guy Rundle.
READ MORE‘Just another crazy’: Rupert Murdoch’s week of horrors
News Corp suffered three hefty hammer blows in the space of as many days, writes David Salter, veteran journalist and former Media Watch executive producer.
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Raising an eyebrow — and a glass — to ANZAC Day celebrations
So the Australian Defence Force is concerned about “the increasingly excessive use of alcohol during Anzac Day commemorations nowadays”.
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Kyle’s damage … News hacked rival … Twitter stumped …
In today’s Media Briefs: Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival … Leveson inquiry: Met police may have to log all press meetings … Former cricketer awarded £90k damages in Twitter libel case and more …
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