The end. » Wall Street Journal http://www.susanfitzgerald.com/blog Observing the decline of the old, and the birth of the new media. As well as a few business models along the way. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:36:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 We are the media and the media are us. http://www.susanfitzgerald.com/blog/2009/01/16/we-are-the-media-and-the-media-are-us/ http://www.susanfitzgerald.com/blog/2009/01/16/we-are-the-media-and-the-media-are-us/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:23:23 +0000 admin http://www.susanfitzgerald.com/blog/?p=897 We’re in a whole new era.

Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posted the first photo of the crash of  U.S. Airways flight 1549 from his iPhone. This is from the Wall Street Journal–

The photo, which Mr. Krums posted online using a Twitter photo-sharing site, has been viewed more than 43,000 times.

Social media tools like Twitter -– which allows users to tap out 140-character status updates — have changed how breaking news events are recorded and covered. They made for on-the-ground reports from the Mumbai terror attacks in November, for example.

This is his advice on how to use Twitter.

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