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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4Cast #218: Blog posts
vs. social media posts</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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font-family: arial;">February 23rd, 2011</span></p>
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alt="" height="123" width="98"></a>Many people
think the recent protests and changes of
government in the Middle East have been enabled by
widespread use of Facebook and Twitter, and you
may even have heard these upheavals called
"Facebook revolutions." This is certainly a very
different use of social media than the more common
status updates that inform the world of nothing
more momentous than what someone ate for
breakfast; this is social media used for
broadcasting news and ideas, things that used to
be the domain of blogs. These days, blogging seems
to be waning while tweeting is becoming more
important. (Recent <em>4cast</em> blog postings,
for example, are also summarized in Twitter and
Facebook postings, which was not the practice when
the <em>4cast</em> was started about four years
ago.) This subtle change in the way social media
is used might result in changes to the social
media itself. </p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/technology/internet/21blog.html">Blogs
wane as the young drift to sites like Twitter</a>
(New York Times/Verne G. Kopytoff) "Among
18-to-33-year-olds [...] blogging dropped two
percentage points in 2010 from two years
earlier. Former bloggers said they were too busy
to write lengthy posts and were uninspired by a
lack of readers. Others said they had no
interest in creating a blog because social
networking did a good enough job keeping them in
touch with friends and family."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/">It's
Facebook vs. Twitter in the race to make the
news social</a> (GigaOM/Mathew Ingram) "At one
point not that long ago, it looked like Facebook
might be trying to become a news platform in a
different way, by aggregating news itself, as a
way of becoming a sort of personalized newspaper
for users. There were some initial moves in that
direction that didn't really go anywhere, and
then more recently the network launched
something it called 'community pages,' which
aggregate posts based on topic keywords and
looked as though they could become a news
aggregation service."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_twitter_must_expand_beyond_140_characters.php">Why
Twitter must expand beyond 140 characters</a>
(ReadWriteWeb/Richard MacManus) "When Twitter <a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_gets_a_new_homepage_-_its_a_whole_thing.php">launched
its re-design</a> in March last year, it
adjusted to this increase of multimedia by
enabling users of Twitter.com (still how the
vast majority of people consume Twitter content)
to view photos and video within Twitter's
website. It was a relatively small, but
significant, step to lessen the burden of
viewing multimedia content within Twitter. [...]
It seems only a matter of time before Twitter
enables users to view 'long tweets' within
Twitter.com, in the same way that users can view
videos and photos within the site."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/02/21/why-twitter-should-never-expand-beyond-140-characters/">Why
Twitter should never expand beyond 140
characters</a> (TheNextWeb/Francis Tan)
"There's actually a <a
href="http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/">reason</a>
behind the not-so-arbitrary 140 character limit
of Twitter and that is simply to fit in an SMS
message. It's a limitation that actually defines
and sets Twitter apart from other services in so
many good ways. It is easier to consume, cheaper
in terms of SMS/data sent and received, and it
actually encourages people to get straight to
the point."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Ohio
blog fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">You don't
have to look far for an example of a news blog
that is enhanced (replaced?) by social media
postings. If you are interested in Ohio political
news, you may be a reader of Marc Kovac's <a
href="http://blogs.dixcdn.com/capitalblog/">Capital
Blog</a>, but followers of his tweets
(@OhioCapitalBlog) are also getting a lot of very
timely political news—though admittedly, a good
many of Mr. Kovac's tweets only concern his
favorite hot beverage. </div>
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