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In May 2009, I joined several active Twitter users at The New York Times in giving a series of presentations to the newsroom on how to use the microblogging service for journalism. This post is a basic collection of links gathered for the talk, with beginners in mind. I’ll post notes from the presentation later. A Few Interesting Twitter Tools : There are hundreds of Twitter tools and sites out there, and perhaps as many blogs that will list them for you. But you really only need a few, and even some of these are just curiosities. - Los Angeles Times

"Lakers fans fill the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as they wait for the team to arrive and celebrate their 2009 NBA Championship." - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

Many of my tweeps (Twitter people) have asked me lately about various acronyms, odd lingo and twords (Twitter words). I’ve compiled below a shortlist of the most popular terms many active Twitterers, including myself, use in everyday tweets. - Los Angeles Times

Brian Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley. Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes marketing & tech insight to industry publications. He’s a published author and an avid speaker on the topic of new marketing and engagement. Solis is among the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media. He’s a co-founder of the Social Media Club and a founding member of the Media 2.0 Workgroup. - Los Angeles Times

Did Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey or even Mark Zuckerberg ever portend that their means of connecting among social circles would be the news du jour in many newsrooms across the country? Social networking sites are some of the newest tools for reporters to use in news gathering, networking and promoting their work. But many newsrooms are fuzzy on the usage. - Los Angeles Times

Jennifer Preston was named social media editor of The New York Times today. Yes, the Gray Lady now has someone in charge of social media. The idea and title may seem funny to some, but it’s better than what The Wall Street Journal and others have been doing lately. It remains to be seen what Preston will do exactly and if she will really help make the Times more social, but early returns have been promising. Preston asked users on Twitter today, “How should @nytimes be using Twitter?” My first suggestion to Preston and the Times would be to be social. This is a given right? Wrong. - Los Angeles Times

The New York Times appointed a new social media editor - Jennifer Preston - this week. On Twitter suggestions for how the NYT should use Twitter poured in. Here are ten of the best suggestions she received: - Los Angeles Times

"Ju-min Park / Los Angeles Times Filmmaker Chae Myeong-min, a North Korean defector, says he has seen enough movies depicting life in the North to know that South Koreans fail to capture the harsh reality. They fake the accent and cannot perform from the heart, unable to fathom the famine and brutality suffered by ordinary North Koreans, he says. What his amateur cast lacks in training, it makes up for in insight, he believes." - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." - Los Angeles Times

This is a mind map that I started for my presentation at TWTRCON and the built out with the audience. Now it's your turn. Where should we take this? - Los Angeles Times

Search powered by the social web. Rec by Chris pirillo - Los Angeles Times

About the project: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping... - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

haha. Me too, really, @Steve. Just noticed that there seem to be a lot of location-specific applications popping up, so to speak. Some of the Twitter clients post geodata, if available. Flickr, BrightKite (certainly), TwitPic, etc. Seems like it would be simple to aggregate that available data. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

"DirecTV today said it has accepted the resignation of its chief executive, Chase Carey, to pave the way for him to take the job helping Rupert Murdoch run his News Corp. media empire." - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

Trying a new approach to http://latimes.com/ff - I just turned off the http://latimes.com/RSS firehose feed - Watch for several new, more granular LAT Times friendfeeds, soon. ^AndrewN - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

"Hannah Powell-Auslam is 10 years old and battling breast cancer. Doctors say it's incredibly rare for a girl her age to suffer from the disease, and her plight has garnered attention both in her hometown of La Mirada and across the nation." - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

Follow http://twitter.com/latimes... on Twitter for more positive headlines and #goodnews (by popular reader demand) - Los Angeles Times

"Sony PlayStation gaming ports are a major draw at E3." - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

See full coverage at http://latimes.com/E3 - Los Angeles Times

See also: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009... - Los Angeles Times

Whoa, good for you...flexible Robert :))) I like that! - Myrna

Brett: only one: the nuclear power plant. - Robert Scoble

I have always been intrigued by the issue of journalists’ transparency, especially when it comes to social media. Being a journalism student, I feel like it’s unethical to ask journalists to hide political affiliations and opinions just to ensure neutrality. It makes me feel like by becoming a journalist, you have to agree to have the right of free expression taken away. I feel like it’s wrong to force journalists to keep part of themselves secret. That’s why I’m a big supporter of journalists being transparent. I would rather know what potential biases a reporter has so I can take them into account while reading his or her article. Because of this issue, I decided to study Twitter for my online community. More specifically I looked at how New York Times reporters use Twitter. I wanted to find out if they use it for social or professional purposes and if they were using the site to its fullest potential. I also looked at how transparency affects what reporters tweet. - Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune launched ChicagoNow.com in beta. The Web site, which ChicagoNow Editorial Director Tracy Schmidt described as "Huffington Post meets Facebook for Chicago" at an SND Chicago meetup two weeks ago, is currently a network of 34 niche Chicago-focused blogs. Tribune's promo video for the site outlines plans that involve expanding to at least 80 blogs by the end of 2009. The site, which was built on the Moveable Type blogging platform, is targeted to take market share from Google, Yahoo! and the Chicago editions of The Huffington Post and ESPN. - Los Angeles Times

(On Twitter, Brady also pointed to other social media editors, such as LATimes.com’s Andrew Nystrom and Mathew Ingram, who is the communities editor at The Globe and Mail, as other examples of how pubs have been carving out new newsroom duties.) - Los Angeles Times

This one is from 2009. :) - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

California Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage Tuesday; http://bit.ly/z980Y - See http://latimes.com/prop8 + @latimesprop8 for ongoing coverage of the CA Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on the legality of Prop 8 #prop8 [about 4 hours ago from web] - Los Angeles Times

At Fiesta Shalom, Latinos and Jews unite to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israeli statehood in what was once the biggest Jewish enclave outside of New York. On a sunny Sunday when men with 10-gallon vaquero hats mingled with men wearing yarmulkes, Sonny Estrada, his wife Susan Miller and their 9-year-old daughter Eliana stepped into the aging synagogue in Boyle Heights as unwitting symbols.

Please note that "LAT24" is an unofficial/unauthorized feed account that is not endorsed by the Los Angeles Times or latimes.com - see http://latimes.com/ff or http://friendfeed.com/latimes for our official stream. ~ AndrewN, @latimes social media guy / @latimesnystrom - Los Angeles Times

Why we were all hoaxed? Oh, yeah, a professional news brand tweeted this: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... Someone should get fired for this. - Robert Scoble

August 2, 2006 @latimes Pulitzer-winning story resurfaced by @tonyrobbins 11hrs ago [w/o any mention that it's an older story]: http://bit.ly/iP9lC Makes @retweetist list of top RT; I'm sort of surprised there' no outrage on Twitter or FriendFeed. Q: Should every tweet of non-breaking news include some sort of disclaimer? ~ Andrew, LAT social media guy / @latimesnystrom - Los Angeles Times

To me that's a fireable offense for a journalistic organization to Tweet something like this. - Robert Scoble

I'M SICK OF THIS ISSUE! BOTH sides have repeatedly violated the law in an attempt to either shove legal gay marriage down Californians' throats or shove marriage discrimination against gays down Californians' throats. I support the legalization of gay marriage, but not the illegal tactics used by BOTH sides to force victory on their side. - Thunderwing from twhirl

is down :( - Los Angeles Times

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as of April 23, 2009 [via http://scobleizer.com] - Los Angeles Times

"Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara" 63 @latimesphotos - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

See http://latimes.com/dodgert... + http://latimes.com/dodgers for full coverage - Los Angeles Times from Bookmarklet

Now there's no chance of me catching a homer in Mannywood. :( - Victor Barrera