An NYT article talks about differing philosophies amongst mixologists/bartenders/bar chefs in the great nation to our south. How grand! :)

That's a thread going on at CJR.org on how journalists should use Twitter:

http://www.cjr.org/news_meeting/how_should_journalists_use_twi.php

Click through and read the comments if you're interested in this stuff.

As for me, use Twitter for an early-warning system and a possible way to identify sources and witnesses. But don't use it as a crutch or take everything on it as the gospel truth. Verify.

Another thing I find is that in some ways, look for what people are not saying. Twitter is a social medium, and I think that tends to skew the conversation.

Think critically about that as you try to glean insight from your stream of tweets.

This note from a reader showed up in my inbox:

I know you're interested in this stuff so here's a link to a story about the Cambodia genocide...which happened to be the one I was reading right as I got called into the meeting where I got laid off from my media job today but that's a whole other post...
 
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/sbm.cambodia.ponchaud/index.html