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New Media Reporter covering the session at SXSW on Media Armageddon: What

Happens When the New York Times Dies. She’s got a laptop, cell phone, flip camera with tripod and a power strip to juice all those devices.

Tech Blogger Leo Laporte with a Tricaster on his backThe reporter is broadcasting live from a party with NewTek’s Tricaster production studio in a backpack . He runs Twit.TV – an online technology broadcasting site.

So where to begin?

• The first step is to sign up for a G-mail account to access all the free Google applications and then subscribe to Google’s RSS reader. Also register your profile with Google.

• You also need Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.• Get a Flickr account for photo sharing.• Get a Youtube account for video• Flavors.me or Posterous gives you an instant blog presence• Register at Digg and Stumbleupon for promoting content• Get a Plancast account to promote events• Get a Del.icio.us account for bookmarking favorite sites• Sign up for Foursquare or Gowalla

Top iPhone Apps for ReportersCamera Plus Pro TwitpicQIK or QIK Pro Plus Cinch – iTalk Recorder Twitter, formerly known as Tweetie 2, Facebook and LinkedIn.com Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl, Where, Yelp Google Maps DropboxEvernoteDocuments to Go by DataViz Awesome Note (+ToDo) SkypeThe AP StylebookWordWeb English Dictionary & Thesaurus NYTimes AppNPR AppCNN Mobile5-0 Radio Pro Police, Firefighter and EMS scannerWolfram-Alpha Search EngineThe World Factbook 2010

Twitter Tools for journalistsTweetdeck is a real time browser for Twitter. Twittertim.es is a real time personalized newspaper .Hootsuite allows you to manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets .Twtpoll.com allows you to create polls or surveys, send them out on Twitter .Twtvite - organize and find local tweetups – real world events organized on Twitter.Twubs – identifies hashtags for various events. Hashtag is just the # symbol followed by a term describing a topic to a post. Wefollow - directory by city and subject matter. Twitter search - http://search.twitter.com/ - the search engine . And for more advanced searching try http://search.twitter.com/advancedLocaltweeps http://localtweeps.com/ find people on Twitter by zip codes. Ranks the most popular cities by twitterSee handout or visit TechChi.com for the rest!

Facebook Nation

• More than 400 million active users

• 50% of its active users log on to Facebook in any given day

• Average user has 130 friends• People spend over 500

billion minutes per month on Facebook

Searching the social webBing/GoogleTwitter Search – used to be summize.com. Check out the advanced site.Topsy.com for TwitterYourOpenBook.org – lets you search Facebook Searching Facebook GroupsSearching LinkedIn Groups/networks

More search sites

Technorati.com – searchable blogger database Zabasearch.com – for info on anyonePipl – a searchable database of peopleNetwork Solution’s Whois registration Internet Archive for finding defunct web sitesZillow – for searching real estateClassmates – for school buddiesSec.gov – Edgar database of public filingsPacer – Public Access to Court Electronic RecordsZipwho and Zipskinny – census data by zip

Other Interesting Sites

• Animoto.com• Freephonebooth.com• Tripit• Gist• Spezify.com

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