In my opinion journalists need to stop using Twitter as a source altogether.
“Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches
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#72> "Imagine what your perfect source would tweet, or what you yourself would tweet in that situation, and search for the words that would probably be in it." This is a technique I used to use a lot more in the days before Google became the dominant search engine, when I was using Lycos, Alta Vista and Yahoo. In those more primitive search engines that were doing something closer to a full-text search, it was important…
This is still how web searching works. I have no idea why you would think otherwise--at its core Google is still fundamentally an indexing service, and you use indices by figuring out which words may be in the documents you want to read and then finding the documents containing those. Without doing this, it becomes impossible to distinguish documents which are what you want from documents which describe what you want…
> This is still how web searching works. I have no idea
> why you would think otherwise
Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches
#73In my opinion journalists need to stop using Twitter as a source altogether.
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#74In my opinion journalists need to stop using Twitter as a source altogether.
Why? Twitter is a fantastic way to find leads and potential sources. You can't and shouldn't cite a tweet from a random person, but you can cite reporting done after finding a source on Twitter.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's okay for you to adhere to your faith. If you ask me to move my seat, you're asking me to adhere to your faith. I say let him stand; the airline should deal with it. Finding an acceptable seat for him is their problem. I don't have a booking issue with my seat. If the airline wants me to move, they should either pay me two hundred bucks, or move me to business class, or first. They have no qualms about charging f…
He's not really asking you to adhere to his faith. He's personally trying to adhere to his faith and he's asking you for a favor that will help him. Similarly, when somebody asks you the time, they are not attempting to turn you into a watch, they're just looking for some help from a fellow human being. I'm not saying someone is necessarily wrong to consider the request unreasonable, but I think it's unfair to accuse…
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#76Personally, I don't understand why the people in the first article, that this one is about, were upset that someone of another religion wanted to adhere to their faith. It seems fairly reasonable that, on air planes non-the-less, that you will encounter many cultures that seem strange to you. Why would that aggravate you?
It's okay for you to adhere to your faith. If you ask me to move my seat, you're asking me to adhere to your faith. I say let him stand; the airline should deal with it. Finding an acceptable seat for him is their problem. I don't have a booking issue with my seat. If the airline wants me to move, they should either pay me two hundred bucks, or move me to business class, or first. They have no qualms about charging f…
That is exactly what happened. In the source tweets it does not look as if any of the original by standards were asked to move. If I am wrong, please let me know.
The men were not asking for the women to be moved, they were asking to be moved.
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#77> "Imagine what your perfect source would tweet, or what you yourself would tweet in that situation, and search for the words that would probably be in it." This is a technique I used to use a lot more in the days before Google became the dominant search engine, when I was using Lycos, Alta Vista and Yahoo. In those more primitive search engines that were doing something closer to a full-text search, it was important…
This is still how web searching works. I have no idea why you would think otherwise--at its core Google is still fundamentally an indexing service, and you use indices by figuring out which words may be in the documents you want to read and then finding the documents containing those. Without doing this, it becomes impossible to distinguish documents which are what you want from documents which describe what you want…
I dunno...
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+can+i+pirate+movies
Seems to have no results about pirate movies.
Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches
#78In my opinion journalists need to stop using Twitter as a source altogether.
Why? Twitter is a fantastic way to find leads and potential sources. You can't and shouldn't cite a tweet from a random person, but you can cite reporting done after finding a source on Twitter.
>You can't and shouldn't cite a tweet from a random person
Except this is exactly what ~90% of the articles that "cite" twitter do.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is still how web searching works. I have no idea why you would think otherwise--at its core Google is still fundamentally an indexing service, and you use indices by figuring out which words may be in the documents you want to read and then finding the documents containing those. Without doing this, it becomes impossible to distinguish documents which are what you want from documents which describe what you want…
I dunno... https://www.google.com/search?q=how+can+i+pirate+movies Seems to have no results about pirate movies.
Now I can't help but wonder how different the world would be if TPB was only about pirate-movie torrents.
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#80I have an interesting dilemma. On one hand, I want to commend you for not using the author's clickbait title. On the other hand, I don't want to give the author more exposure (because of the clickbait title) by increasing this post's comment score. In the end, the first hand won. Thanks! :)
OP here, Thanks for noticing the linkbait work-around. I thought it was a useful piece, but similarly didn't want to reward the original title.