Twit or tweet?

Bloggers are often blamed for the downfall of traditional journalism.  Mark Nolan’s blog expad.ie has an interesting post on twitter versus blogs. The argument is that real time twittering is affecting the rate of blog posts and interaction…  Already?

The result is that blog authority, measured in the traditional blog-to-blog linkage by Technorati, has gone the way of property prices and Brian Cowen’s approval ratings. markhamnolan

Courtney Love leading the way by being the first member of the twitterati to be caught up in twittigation proceedings.

“oi vey don’t f— with my wardrobe or you will end up in a circle of corched eaeth hunted til your dead. Courtney Love

Love directed the tweet at her fashion designer, Dawn Simorangkir. If she has any sense Love will feign semi-literacy and pretend the message was really intended for her dog, vey, who likes to chew designer clothes. Reuters ran an article on the story.

Digital Rights Ireland is a useful blog which helps decode the basics of libel and defamation in Ireland.

Garry Trudeau tweets as Roland Hedley, the  fictitious Fox News reporter, who debuted in the Doonesbury comic strip in 1973. Trudeau uses satire to take a swipe at TV journalist tweeters.

Roland Hedley

The technology obviously isn’t inherently silly — it’s just a tool. A lot of serious people are using Twitter towards serious ends, especially the geeks who put it on the map. Gary Trudeau

Teenagers use Twitter to recreate history using live updates in this experiment in cultural anthropology