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Observations on digital media by the faculty and staff of the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.

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Orange County Register Using Twitter for Fire Coverage

By Paul Grabowicz, November 15, 2008

The Orange County Register is using a Twitter feed to provide reports by people in Orange County about the huge fire there.

Giving Away the Farm

By Scot Hacker, July 10, 2008

YouTube, Flickr, Ning, GMail, WordPress.com...  From discussion boards to multimedia, there's an abundance of free or affordable services out there ready to lower barriers to entry. But think twice before jumping on the free service bandwagon - "free" almost always has a cost.

Twittering the news: DOs and DON'Ts

By Jeremy Rue, June 4, 2008

Twitter logoAmong the horde of Web 2.0 sites popping up each day, it seems the newest craze to emerge online is the Twitter social network. Very suddenly we are getting lots of questions about Twitter; people wanting to know what it is, how it works and most importantly how journalists ...