NYT Journalism 2.0: Don't Throw Out the Baby When I was a kid, I wanted to be a journalist. My heroes were people like Woodward and Bernstein and the people reporting from war zones. The profession seemed to be both glamorous and worthwhile. Faced with a real decision as a young adult, I went into the IT industry. Then, later in my career, I started blogging, and then writing for… Bernard Lunn View comments
Social Networks IBM Launches World's Geekiest Social Network, My developerWorks Many a neutech hipster looked askance at the huge IBM-plex situated front and center at this year's Web 2.0 conference. No one could deny the hardware/software/services giant's place in tech history (their first plant is now almost 100 years old), but what does it have to do with the glassy, streamy, widgety world that tech had become? IBM staff… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Twitter Twitter Aggregator SawHorse Gets Funded, Adds Two Sites Streaming themed tweets in such fascinating verticals as journalism, venture capital, and music, Twitter aggregator SawHorse has raised an undisclosed seed round to support its growing network of sites. Its two newest sites are focused on pets and celebrities. Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
How-To Five Things You Can Do With This New Facebook RSS App Sometimes the low-hanging fruit holds the most potential - but it's hidden in plain sight. Facebook opened up the activity streams of users' friends this week to outside developers to put into new interfaces. The showcase examples in the news were things like Facebook-inside-desktop-Twitter applications. A San Francisco developer named Teck Chia… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Twitter TwtJobs: 140 Characters to Employment New today from the self-explanatorily named TwtApps: TwtJobs, which aims to help job seekers and employers connect via Twitter. Job seekers can create a "Twitter Resume," and employers can post job openings. The posting part is simple, elegant, and leaves one with a clean, ad-free, scannable piece of HR collateral. Users can even name their own… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments