Robert Scoble, Twitter, Next Generation of Journalism
November 1st, 2007This blew my mind today.
Robert Scoble was at today’s big Google press conference with Eric Schmidt and tons of other execs, and he (via Twitter) solicited questions – in real time – from his Twitter friends for the Google folks:

Incredible. I felt like I was really at the press conference and could ask anything, thanks to the Scoble + Twitter conduit. wow.
Update (Robert’s vantage point):

November 2nd, 2007 at 4:38 am
[...] it really rocked. Here’s reactions from around the web from Rob Lagesse. From James D. Kirk. From Jay Meattle, who calls Twitter the next generation of journalism. Filed under: Google, Open Social @ 1:28 am [...]
January 18th, 2008 at 12:27 am
[...] This blog details out how famous blogger Robert Scoble used Twitter to bring a press conference right in [...]
December 11th, 2008 at 12:40 am
[...] phone social networking tool, a reporter can be on the scene and reporting the news. Jay Meattle caught an instance of this in his blog in 2007, where Robert Scoble twittered with friends to solicit questions to ask at a press conference (see [...]