Rebooting the News #7 

This week's 40-plus minute podcast with Jay Rosen and myself.

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Sony got it right 

The new Walkman is great. Click the pic for comments, a full-size picture, link to the product page.

Retweet is stupid 

Okay I'm going to get crucified for this, but I found myself saying this on the phone today to Andrew Baron. If I was willing to say it to him, I should have the guts to say it publicly.

Now, I'm not saying the people who retweet are stupid, or the impulse to pass on a link to everyone who follows you is stupid, but...

A retweet is the same as voting up something on Digg or Reddit. It's a piece of metadata about the tweet, and should be stored and displayed with the tweet. When you retweet something, none of the 140 characters should be used in saying that it's a retweet and who it came from.

Digg does it right, Twitter --> wrong.

Another app that does it right is FriendFeed.

Look at this post, it's been liked a lot. When I wrote this it had 225 likes! Like is FriendFeed's term for retweet.

Nothing needs to be done, but I'm glad to get this out there, once and for all.

Hope you're having a happy Sunday!