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The Chinese earthquake and Twitter – crowdsourcing without managers

There’s been an earthquake in China, and the Twittersphere is alive with it. I’m going to write a post on this and keep adding to it through the next hour or so. Let me know anything interesting you’ve spotted @paulbradshaw The first interesting point is Tweetburner: its most-clicked links shared on Twitter are almost entirely about the earthquake, and show
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Blogs and Investigative Journalism: draft first section

From today I’ll be blogging parts of a book chapter on ‘Blogs and Investigative Journalism’ which will form part of the next edition of ‘Investigative Journalism‘. The following is the first part, which introduces blogging in general and its relationship with journalism. I would welcome any corrections, extra information or comments. Blogging and journalism To ask “Is blogging journalism” is
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