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isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=54655</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sky News has come under immense criticism after it was reported that it had banned all employees re-tweeting information provided by rival journalists and the general public. In an email issued to all employees on Tuesday, the news organisation stated that in order to maintain its credibility, new social media guidelines had been put into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/sky-news-trust-your-journalists-with-twitter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Seven top tips for verifying tweets</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/seven-top-tips-for-verifying-tweets/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/seven-top-tips-for-verifying-tweets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Verweij</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Online journalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nelson mandela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Schipol]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://memeburn.com/?p=51539</guid> <description><![CDATA[Given that the week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day is usually very slow in the tech blogging world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Jeremiah Owyang’s linkbait post about the end of the “Golden Age of Tech Blogging” got its fair share of attention when it came out. My old boss Marshall Kirkpatrick [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/the-golden-age-of-tech-blogging-is-over-i-dont-think-so/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>11 of Memeburn’s most popular articles from 2011</title><link>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/memeburn-articles-of-2011/</link> <comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/memeburn-articles-of-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:00:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Talita Calitz</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Online journalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Memeburn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[top articles]]></category><guid
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