MySpace FaceBook stats

Here's a link to Alf Hermida's blog post on the latest stats.

SMS feeds and more Facebook apps talk

Check out this story from the New York Times on text message news alerts about traffic:

Personal Traffic Alerts, With Made-to-Order Data

By JACQUES STEINBERG

Published: July 5, 2007

In the latest incarnation of traffic reporting, information is being sent using personalized text or voice messages to users’ cellphones or BlackBerrys, often at no charge.

Very interesting approach -- and it is not taking it as far as you folks have discussed in your ideas.

Also, I went over and joined The Exploding Newsroom on Facebook, a group that several of my friends are in. I found a link from there to a blog by a Philadelpia Inquirer reporter about newsy Facebook Apps. It sounds like they are channelling youse guys (that's how they tawk in Philly, trust me, I know). Here's a sample from that post:

What newsrooms or writers have developed Facebook apps that turn Facebook into a distribution channel for their work? Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic has a Facebook group, Atlantic Politics. Chris Cillizza has The Fix, a Facebook group for readers of his work for washingtonpost.com. TechCrunch offers a TechCrunch app that users can use to add to their profiles. Others?

Facebook's Exploding Newsroom group has a whole discussion on Facebook as a venue for news.
Worth checking out, I think ...
enuf for now ...

::Later addition: Yo Rob! There's a post in the Exploding Newsroom by someone else who's seriously into visualizing news: Serial Consign

Cooler than the iPhone: Eventstreaming

Really interesting and provocative post today over at one of my favorite blogs, TechCrunch. If you couldn't (or didn't want to) stand in line for the iPhone, you could be almost right there thanks to the live videostream folks were putting up.
In this post, TechCrunch calls eventstreaming "the missing link in Web 2.0’s challenge to network television."
Pretty compelling.
Another interesting place to stop and ponder is this post on Seth Goldstein's blog about Facebook, and how and why it is becoming the "social network of choice for us chic geeks." One reason, Goldstein says, is because Facebook is allowing peole to create new applications for use on the network .You've no doubt seen some new apps lately on Facebook, and I think some of you have proposed creating new apps as part of this project. Well, guess what? Facebook would *love* that!
And then, because I am a cockeyed optimist and like to hang with the "half-full" crowd, I urge you to slide over to the MediaShift blog where Mark Glaser lists 10 Reasons there's a bright future for journalism.
And talk back. What helps you and what inspires you?