"2) Which web or mobile-based social media tools do you use on a daily basis and why?
I use Twitter, both web and mobile. I blog on my own blog about online media, web 2.0 and technology, thoughtleader.co.za and sometimes on Poynter’s new media titbits."
http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/tag/media-titbits/


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"A question that remained unanswered was that of the "profession" of foreign correspondents and how it will have to be reformed to meet the "demands for quality" which Reinhard Hesse, journalist and advisor to chancellor Gerhard Schröder, observed through the fast-moving new media which tends towards "titbit journalism". Chimelli also observed changes in the style of writing and a reduction in vocabulary used in the print media and criticised the fact that even in serious daily newspapers there is a tendency towards what he called "magazine-ization", in other words, similar to the Internet, the preparation of news topics in more and more information boxes with short explanatory text excerpts."
http://cms.ifa.de/en/tagungen/dialogforen/tagungen-2000/deut...

"A People-Item Journalist Takes on the History of Mankind) Writer ridicules "tidbit journalism" of the sort that appears in magazines like "People," under the headline "Notes on People" in the NY Times, and other gossip columns. He covers the separation of Java Man an Java Woman(it couldn't work…
by Roy Blount"
http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:"Roy ...

I'll always stay away from the staple of most blogs, political "tidbits" largely culled from the MSM (mainstream media, for my Australian visitors, of whom I have many). I want to discuss practical steps that good GOP candidates can use to defeat less-good (and sometimes, awful) opponents. In short, I'll stay away from "tidbit journalism."
http://smartpolitics101.blogspot.com/2007/12/russell-putting...