Comments on: Vicariously, I tweet (while the whole world dies) http://p.karageorgakis.com/blog/vicariously-i-tweet/ Tue, 18 May 2010 13:18:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Panos Karageorgakis http://p.karageorgakis.com/blog/vicariously-i-tweet/comment-page-1/#comment-9539 Panos Karageorgakis Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:44:45 +0000 http://p.karageorgakis.com/?p=304#comment-9539 Panos, thank you for your reply. IMHO, finding really meaningful information through Twitter search is like searching for needles in a haystack. It's best to find a few credible users who are posting useful updates and follow them, but then again wouldn't you be forming your opinions based on a few select individuals? Citizen journalism is a revolution that I welcome; but people should be cautious. Let us not sanctify it without looking at the downsides. And apart from that, let us try to diminish this vicarious nature; if someone wants to deal with news retransmission I wish they do it out of a genuine interest and not as a means to enhance their popularity and feed their ego. Panos, thank you for your reply. IMHO, finding really meaningful information through Twitter search is like searching for needles in a haystack. It’s best to find a few credible users who are posting useful updates and follow them, but then again wouldn’t you be forming your opinions based on a few select individuals?

Citizen journalism is a revolution that I welcome; but people should be cautious. Let us not sanctify it without looking at the downsides. And apart from that, let us try to diminish this vicarious nature; if someone wants to deal with news retransmission I wish they do it out of a genuine interest and not as a means to enhance their popularity and feed their ego.

]]> By: Panos Moralis http://p.karageorgakis.com/blog/vicariously-i-tweet/comment-page-1/#comment-9536 Panos Moralis Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:53:37 +0000 http://p.karageorgakis.com/?p=304#comment-9536 Good article. In general i agree with most of your points and would like to add a slight spin.We have been spoon-fed news and events for years now but recently this has been taken to another level now with the journalists enforcing their opinions on us! They dont just report the news anymore, they tell us that this should be your opinion!! This is one of the reasons I carefully choose my news sources today so i can mould my own opinion based on facts (wherever available) and of course cross-checking. Today i tried to follow #iranelection on twitter and i completely lost it...20 tweets every 15 secs, real time events taking place and being posted on Flickr and Youtube. Opinions flying left and right based on reports posted by users like @persiankiwi and @Stopahmadi, trolls posting contradicting info and on top of all spammers taking advantage of the situation trying to make an easy buck. It was just running too fast for me and the info-overload short-circuited my brain thus making it virtually impossible to evaluate the news and form an opinion. I will continue to try to autoeducate myself with this form of news coverage but i dont believe that everybody is ready for this bombardment. Unfortunately i believe that the majority of people will continue to get spoon-fed the news from the idiot box... My 2 cents. Good article. In general i agree with most of your points and would like to add a slight spin.We have been spoon-fed news and events for years now but recently this has been taken to another level now with the journalists enforcing their opinions on us! They dont just report the news anymore, they tell us that this should be your opinion!! This is one of the reasons I carefully choose my news sources today so i can mould my own opinion based on facts (wherever available) and of course cross-checking.
Today i tried to follow #iranelection on twitter and i completely lost it…20 tweets every 15 secs, real time events taking place and being posted on Flickr and Youtube. Opinions flying left and right based on reports posted by users like @persiankiwi and @Stopahmadi, trolls posting contradicting info and on top of all spammers taking advantage of the situation trying to make an easy buck. It was just running too fast for me and the info-overload short-circuited my brain thus making it virtually impossible to evaluate the news and form an opinion. I will continue to try to autoeducate myself with this form of news coverage but i dont believe that everybody is ready for this bombardment. Unfortunately i believe that the majority of people will continue to get spoon-fed the news from the idiot box…

My 2 cents.

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