This Storify won’t embed for some reason. But here are a few tweets from hacks and hackers to explain what happened yesterday.
During an interview with director of business development at Foursquare Eric Friedman, he pointed out how the Wall Street Journal used Foursquare’s new list feature to plot the hurricane evacuation centres in New York City.
I’m due to speak to the journalist behind the WSJ’s Foursquare account this week. The newspaper is the best example I’ve come across of a news organisation using the check-in social network. Let me know if you know of other news outlets using Foursquare in interesting ways.
A post I wrote earlier today. I’d like to add this use of Google Street View demonstrating before and after images of the riots
Could come in handy for reporting on the #Londonriots
Here’s a guide to creating an effective Facebook page. I spoke to journalist programme manager at Facebook Vadim Lavrusik for some pointers.
Ever heard of phone hacking?
Here are a few ideas for journalists+ on how they can use Google+
Any other tips on G+?
I spoke to Vadim Lavrusik, journalist programme manager from Facebook; Paul Bradshaw, head of the online journalism course at Birmingham City University and visiting professor at City University, London; and Jack Riley, head of digital audience and content development at the Independent, to find out more about Facebook pages.
My look at how last weekend the Guardian achieved the same number of page views for stories with Glastonbury in the headline as the whole of the site gets in a typical weekend.
On site on site reporting.
An interview with SoundCloud founder Alexander Ljung
