In a post today on The Wall , Tom Callow addressed the tricky question of ownership of journalists’ Twitter accounts. If employees use a Twitter ID that combines their names with those of their employers’ brands, whose account is it? Until journalists and their employers alike see Twitter and other social media accounts as equivalent in importance to other brand channels and manage them accordingly, the friction will only increase. Along with its reporter, the BBC has now lost her 60,000 Twitter followers as well. Twitter account should be treated the same way. MORE >>

We now  welcome  the scrutiny of strangers by freely sharing the most intimate details of our lives on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Social Media David Lazarus Facebook Google journalism old-media privacy TwitterIn the Los Angeles Times today, columnist David Lazarus, a writer I admire, wrote an oddly bitter piece inspired by the Facebook IPO, wondering why so many people under 30 just don’t care about privacy: It’s not just that we no longer feel outraged by repeated incursions on our virtual personal space. Why is this new attitude to privacy so bad? MORE >>

Earlier this week, ReadWriteWeb co-editor Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote on Twitter (post now deleted) that  he was looking to hire a writer “to produce 5 solid web tech news articles a day, 5 days a week.”  Fellow twitterer @Alex replied that few could meet this standard: “turns out the number of people who can do that is around 20. Doctorow: Productivity Terrorist? Doctorow’s intent, I think, is to inspire, but his example is just as likely to depress. To the traditional print journalist, their new ethos of digital productivity is not just foreign, it’s al-Qaeda foreign. Maybe so. MORE >>

Twitter is no longer a matter for debate among thinking journalists. In response to a reader of his superb recent series of posts on why and how to use Twitter, Steve Buttry addressed the question of how to handle curmudgeonly journalists who continue to resist it. d also recommend reading Joe Konrath’s blog “A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing” (even though it’s aimed at fiction writers) and following Dan Blank and Porter Anderson on Twitter. Over the weekend, I read a couple of blog posts that highlighted for me the shifting battlefront in the digital-media wars. Probably not. MORE >>

New-Media Models blogging books new media new-media survival guide Rex Hammock TwitterIn his autobiography, The Last Laugh , S. Perelman recalls that his first book included the following blurb from Groucho Marx: “From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down,  I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”. Perelman doesn’t say how he felt about it, but given his admiration of the Marx Brothers, he was surely delighted. feel the same way about Rex Hammock’s blog post last week declaring my book, the New-Media Survival Guide , to be “awesome and a must read.” MORE >>