Google & The News Business, Twitter tools & Clay Shirky’s Journalism 2.0 // Links for 2009-07-14

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• What’s a Fair Share In the Age of Google? : CJR
  "What a wondrous thing it would be for newsgathering, in a time of mounting crisis, if Google turned out to be as much a source of solutions as it is a part of the problem."
  (tags: google newspapers journalism competition free copyright socialmedia blogging)

  

• Software applications improve Twitter service – WSJ.com
  Good Twitter 101 course on tools.
  (tags: howto twitter reference WSJ tools desktop+aggregators filtering aggregator RSS social+software)

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• Clay Shirky’s Vision of Journalism, Version 2.0 [The New York Observer]
  "Like driving, journalism is not a profession — no degree or certification is required to practice it, and training often comes after hiring — and it is increasingly being transformed into an activity, open to all, sometimes done well, sometimes badly, but at a volume that simply cannot be supported by a small group of full-time workers. The journalistic models that will excel in the next few years will rely on new forms of creation, some of which will be done by professionals, some by amateurs, some by crowds, and some by machines"
  (tags: clay+shirky media journalism publishing newspapers citizen+media)