I thought this mashup of Big Brother and traditional journalism was silly at first, but upon reflection, it’s actually an important experiment. MSNBC is reporting the following:
Five journalists plan to lock themselves away in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites.
It will interesting to see if these journalists shed light on the future of environmental writing and journalism.
Click the link below to see the full story:
Reporters put Twitter, Facebook to ‘Big Brother’ test
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