links for 2009-06-09

A new crop of software is promising to do all the heavy work and tell you just how well – or how poorly – your brand is doing in online conversations.

On a typical online social network, he said, the top 10% of users accounted for 30% of all production.

“This implies that Twitter’s resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network,” the team wrote in a blog post.

If the truth must be corrected – wouldn’t the truth finally have to be the sum total of process AND product? Shouldn’t it be a document of changes which tells the truth about editing, as well as about the information being edited? And wouldn’t it imply information is only momentarily true. That the end of a story doesn’t have to do with truth it has to do with interest or the loss thereof?

“This is a fantastic piece of visual storytelling – and it betters anything I have seen in a TV news film for a long time. The colours, the transitions, even the map is the sexiest thing I’ve seen in ages.

Unless traditional TV producers learn to experiment with more creative visual styles, the internet will soon become the place for great visual storytelling.”

The Virtual Assignment Desk, as you can see, has two parts. On the left, where it says “Be the Journalist,” we will list, probably several times a week, opportunities for you to contribute to The Local and make it better. Sometimes we’ll ask for volunteers to cover a meeting and write it up.