{"id":962,"date":"2009-02-02T03:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T08:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/02\/02\/strangely-evoked-some-feelings-why-im-twittering-from-davos-even-though-i-run-reuters\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T03:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T08:11:53","slug":"strangely-evoked-some-feelings-why-im-twittering-from-davos-even-though-i-run-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/02\/strangely-evoked-some-feelings-why-im-twittering-from-davos-even-though-i-run-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangely Evoked Some Feelings-Why I&#039;m Twittering From Davos Even Though I Run Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, Some people do get it. Read the whole thing!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why I&#8217;m Twittering From Davos Even Though I Run Reuters<br \/>\nDavid Schlesinger | January 30, 2009 1:25 PM<br \/>\nschlesinger.jpgDavid Schlesinger is the Editor in Chief of Reuters News. His Twitter from Davos alerted us to the fact that George Soros had predicted the end of the world. We asked David whether, by live-Twittering, he was concerned about scooping himself.  Here, in a post on Reuters, David responds:<br \/>\nTwittering Away Standards&#8230;Or Tweeting The Future of Journalism?<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been tweeting from the World Economic Forum, using the microblogging platform Twitter to discuss the mundane (describing crepuscular darkness of the Swiss Alps at 5 a.m.) or the interesting (live tweeting from presentations).<br \/>\nIs it journalism?<br \/>\nIs it dangerous?<br \/>\nIs it embarrassing that my tweets even beat the Reuters newswire?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2009\/1\/why-im-twittering-from-davos\">Why I&#8217;m Twittering From Davos Even Though I Run Reuters<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, Some people do get it. Read the whole thing! Why I&#8217;m Twittering From Davos Even Though I Run Reuters David Schlesinger | January 30, 2009 1:25 PM schlesinger.jpgDavid Schlesinger is the Editor in Chief of Reuters News. His Twitter from Davos alerted us to the fact that George Soros had predicted the end of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/02\/strangely-evoked-some-feelings-why-im-twittering-from-davos-even-though-i-run-reuters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strangely Evoked Some Feelings-Why I&#039;m Twittering From Davos Even Though I Run Reuters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}