What a great read!
Curt Hopkins from Read Write Web shares the newest addition to Associated Press’s resources.
“Despite the fact that social media is hardly still the exclusive purview of the early adopter, it still surprises, grates or inspires laughter sometime to see it crop up outside its native ecosystem. So, when Associated Press, the official arbiter of terminology, text and typography turned to Twitter, it gave us funny feelings. We weren’t sure if we were being wooed or abused.
The 2010 AP Stylebook now carries a dark, dirty little section called “Social Media Guidelines.” Squeeeeee! Let’s look inside, shall we?
The 164-year-old AP has added 42 entries focused on social media terms. Among them are app, blogs, click-throughs, crowdsourcing, curate, e-reader, friend and unfriend, hashtag, metadata, RSS, search engine optimization, smart phone, trending, widget and wiki.”
Read more here … http://bit.ly/cQanve
