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10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media

Our journalism partner from our MnDaily work, Vadim Lavrusik wrote this great piece for Mashable: 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media but don't forget the University of Washington's course publishing an entrepreneurial Facebook publication called In:Site

Wordles - Representation of Hot Dish Stories and Comments

At the Knight Foundation's Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT this week, Martin Wattenberg just presented Wordle - a few minutes later... 

1) Representation of all titles and abstracts of stories posted publicly to Hot Dish by moderators and community members:

2) Representation of all comment text posted publicly to Hot Dish by community members:

Facebook, MySpace still better than Twitter for connecting people to your site

Major television events are continuing to see good results when they integrate social media, especially using services that let people take their social networking identities with them around the web. The latest example is media conglomerate Turner Networks, which recently told AdAge about its experiment in letting users log in and chat to each other using Facebook, MySpace and Twitter while watching the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and last weekend’s NASCAR race, the Pocono 500, on Turner’s home site.

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