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Got a giggle out of the remark about confusing people about "how is twitter relevant to journalism" back in the day. Back in my journalism school days (1990s) I had somewhat the reverse. I had my lecturer , who was the head of the dept [and frankly an academic imposter, IMHO, we had disagreements], tell me she didnt think the internet was going to a particularly useful tool for journalists. After class I went to her office and completely debunked a claim from her previous lecture using a bunch of altavista searches. She was astonished. She really had no idea that the internet was that powerful (remember this was the 1990s). So for the rest of my degree I was the "internet expert" in that department. I was even offered to submit a paper to the unis commnication theory journal (I turned it down. Whatever I might have been re the internet, I knew I was far from being a capable academic, at least not until after I finished my undergrad [and even then...., we all know that imposter syndrome feeling in academia lol].
You can full-text search anything you've interacted with, any post where you're mentioned, *and* any post you've favorited or bookmarked--including other people's posts! This is one advantage of bookmarking/favoriting. On a server with full-text search enabled (like yours) it allows you to find anything you previously found interesting or interacted with.
Every journalistic publication should have added to the author page for each of their journalists. Then, a journalist could just link to their publication's author page for them, and get the green checkmark.
That was informative and helpful, thanks. I've been trying to adapt to Mastodon for a few weeks now. I don't find it a satisfying replacement for Twitter though as it lacks the cut and thrust of debate.
Wayback when email first came out I remember thinking that if we started using email nobody would talk to each other anymore on the phone! My family made sure of that for me!
39:53 - Wait! How do y'all, as journalists, not know how copyright and fair-use works? It works the same regardless of the site that someone posted something on. How do y'all not know how citations work? It works the same regardless of where you got the information. You just include a "perma-link" to the original post that you quoted, So that everyone can see that you aren't making stuff up. People may not like that you quote them. But, for journalistic purposes, that is not only allowed, it is almost required in a civil society. (The only good reason to not include a link to the original post, is to protect someone's privacy, if that is appropriate.) How are these even questions? The Mastodon developers May not implement a feature, like quotes, because they don't like what people might do with them. However, they have no legal means to prevent you from using an image or using a quote for education or journalistic purposes. Of course, as far as I know, copyright law does not have a Fair used carve out for karma whoring. Although, it would be very easy for anyone to try to say that their joke, meme is intended to be educational. That would be up for a court to decide. Copyright law prevents you from using that cat picture in an ad for cat food. As journalists, you should have been taught this on the very first day of journalism school. In a lot of cases, the only thing that is allowing people to repost other people's cat pictures for memes is the fact that no one has the money to file all those billions of lawsuits. However, with all that said, the issue is not going to be whether or not you have violated copyright. Or whether your use constituted "fair use." The issue is going to be: Is everybody going to block you if you do that? But then, does that really matter? You can use one account to read everything, and another account to post from. They may find out who you are, and block you from posting. But, as long as they don't find out who that anonymous (read only) account belongs to, You can still do your journalistic research and collect as many quotes as you need to. Every bit of this is Journalism 101.
