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En inglés hay una frase del propietario del New York Times, Arthur Suzberger, Jr., que dice "in newspapers, what matter it's no paper". No hay que confundir el soporte donde recibimos información como la función que cumple. El periodismo permite informar, discutir... Esas funciones no van a ser satisfechas por la misma gente ni por los mismos medios, pero no hay que pensar que van a dejar de ser cumplidas. El problema es de adaptación. Una versión rigurosa dice que se muere y una más amplia dice que se adapta y se transforma.

Además, ¿quién dice la muerte de periodismo? Los periodistas. Cuando trabajaba como corresponsal en Nicaragua durante la guerra, éramos un pequeño grupo de periodistas que decíamos lo que estaba pasando. Hoy hay miles de personas que informan por el medio que sea. Hemos perdido el monopolio del acceso y de la distribución de la información. Las nuevas tecnologías permiten crear un espacio antes inexistente como el de la información a tiempo real y realizada por no profesionales. El uso de Twitter, por ejemplo, es información y periodismo.

Discutible e interesante.

Next time you think about getting snarky on a social network, consider this: A Chicago woman's Twitter post about her "moldy apartment" has landed her with a $50,000 lawsuit from a local management company.

Updates on social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, have led to lawsuits and resignations.

(ABC News Photo Illustration)

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Horizon Group Management LLC, which has more than 1,500 tenants in the Chicago area, filed a libel lawsuit Monday against Amanda Bonnen, a former tenant.

Although it appears that Bonnen has since closed down her Twitter account, a May 12 tweet from "abnonnen" read: "Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon really thinks it's okay."

Bonnen did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABCNews.com.

Asunto a seguir, entre otros.

A recent poll of communicators conducted by Ragan Communications and PollStream found that 54 percent of 702 respondents claim Twitter is a fad and will plateau.

“[It’s a fad] because everybody’s doing it,” says Bob Hirschfeld, senior public information officer for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “Ashton Kutcher and CNN have a steady supply of fans who want to know what they do. People like us, people with a job to do, every so often we do something of interest to the general public [but] we don’t have that steady supply of stuff that the public is interested in.”

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Of those polled, 28 percent said they already microblog and credit it with increasing employee engagement, improving customer service and reputation with customers, and boosting Web site traffic.

Despite those benefits, 40 percent of respondents don’t yet have a microblogging plan due to fearful managers, lack of time and staff, or simply not believing it would benefit the company.

Léalo Antes en PaperPapers

Usted todo esto ya lo sabía porque lo leyó en este post y también en este otro, ambos en Esta Casa. Bien. Pero el reportaje de Silvia Blanco "Twitter no basta para la revolución" es ejemplar. Enhorabuena. Léalo este fin de semana, tan tranquilamente.

Gracias, Toni. Y los comentarios también se agradecen.

Just in time for summer, Crown Imports has brought back a popular television advertisement for its Corona beer that first aired in 1998. The new one shows a man at the beach skipping rocks into the sea. He decides to do the same with his BlackBerry -- a beeper in the earlier version -- when it interrupts his relaxation by ringing and vibrating.

The ad addresses one of the key causes of anxiety in the information age: What does it mean that for the first time, information is no longer scarce? We have fast and easy access to the communications and the facts we need, through email, the Web, Facebook, Twitter, text messages and other tools. So now we have the problem of too much supply. How can we escape useless information, unneeded emails and unwanted communications?

Our era in the information age is a transition period of learning how to navigate information abundance. Rather than pitch our BlackBerrys and iPhones into the sea, imagine the benefits once we have figured out how to manage the chaos of endless data and routine multitasking, a process that will help refine our judgment about information and refocus our attention on what's truly important.

Sobreviviremos a Twitter, por supuesto. Con relax, como dice L. Gordon Crovitz, y desde luego con sobriedad, sin histerismos.