links for 2009-01-05

"One thing's for certain, though - while social media are going to play an ever greater role in how we find out about and understand major news events, the ad hoc aggregation systems we currently use are very vulnerable to being maliciously flooded with this sort of non-information."

Don't imagine that the long-honed skills of process, procedural driven people are suddenly going to be lost in the excitement of social media - that marketers no longer market, or sales no longer sell, or journalists no longer write. That just makes out social media to be more than it is."

"You can apply this to pretty much any organisation that’s wanting to engage with blogs but is wary of how to deal with negative criticism. Pin it to you wall". Great spot from Pete

"No doubting that once the fighting is over,the world's major news organisations will be heavily scrutinised over any perceived bias on the part of either of the incumbents". When the fighting is over? I think it is more like a constant stream, often full of invective, aimed at the media from both sides.

"I wonder how many blogs got a spike from this over the last few days. I know I did - was there something here more businesses could have worked in to boost their online presence?"