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There was a bit of noise on Twitter both during media140 and after it on the extent of ‘obvious stating’ going on at the event.\u00a0 Much of this comment was of a critical nature – ‘they don’t get it’; referring to the somewhat Twitter-sceptical journalists in the room.\u00a0 The bigger players there (Sky and the BBC) indulged in a bit of un-necessary and rather tedious sparring.\u00a0 Both of them, I suppose, feeling secure in their knowledge that their respective ‘market’ power and ‘broadcast’ mode will leave them largely unchanged by the openess and pervasiveness of social media generally and Twitter in particular. Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Following media140, I’ve been reading blogs and the press coverage – reportage mostly; who said what and with little commentary or analysis about what it all means.\u00a0 Perhaps it’s too scary for the Potential Legacy Media (currently known as MSM) to think about?\u00a0 And sometimes that means the obvious needs a bit of stating.<\/p>\n

\"Wordle<\/p>\n

As part of the ‘post match’ coverage there was an interesting if largely self-referential segment on pods and blogs<\/a> on R5Live with journalists and a thoughtful comment from Mark Jones of Reuters who also provided some excellent comment and analysis on his Reuters blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Realtime coverage<\/h2>\n

I used Audioboo and Scribblelive at the event.\u00a0 I also generated the wordle above based on my liveblog.\u00a0 You can find the liveblog here<\/a> and ‘hat tips’ to contributors here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those of you who liveblog events will know the level of concentration it needs.\u00a0 Using Scribblelive actually increases<\/em> the level of complexity as you try to bring in other people’s tweets, try to avoid too much duplication (most sole tweeters at events do so in realtime and there’s often duplication in the aggregated stream).\u00a0 Trying to join in, provide some realtime feedback and combine inputs is ‘not for the faint-hearted’ as the Scribblelive people say!<\/p>\n

In the next sections, I provide some thoughts on media140 after reflecting on the issues, the coverage and my own liveblog and Audioboos made at the time; I name the presenters in the Audioboos and you can also refer to the Agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 140 Character story<\/h2>\n

This panel kept bouncing off the argument – they had a silly discussion about whether Twitter was journalism or not.\u00a0 And we kind of forgot the ‘realtime news’ tagline of the entire event.\u00a0 What was missing for me was:<\/p>\n