http://www.twitscoop.com/ – real-time chronicling of Twitter, including “trending topics”

http://www.tweetfeel.com/ – this site tries to characterize tweets around a positive or negative vibe

The Google mashup map regarding the Portland explosion

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/03/29/29readwriteweb-boom-tweets–maps-swarm-to-pinpoint-a-myste-34026.html?src=tptw – a good writeup in the NYTimes on the PDX boom

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.html - the fascinating mapping of Facebook data

http://www.stocktwits.com/ – using real-time Twitter data to help stock pickers decide buy or sell

http://flixup.com/ – can Twitter or other social networks predict which movies will do well, and which wont”

http://www.fanpageanalytics.com — use this site to analyze the health of your Facebook fan page

http://media.twitter.com/ – Twitter’s new blog to help media companies use Twitter better

http://twitter.com/twittermedia – Twitter’s new account to help media companies use Twitter better

http://twitter.grader.com/ – Grades the quality of your Twitter account

http://twitalyzer.com/ – Grades the quality of your Twitter account

http://socialmention.com/  — let’s you track the reputation of your brand as it’s noted in the social web

http://foursquare.com/ – the new geolocation social network and game

http://www.checkinmania.com/ – a mashup of place-based data (recommendations, for instance) gathered from place-based social networks

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/twitter/twitter.php – how the National Weather Service wants to use social networks to help it gather storm reports

http://www.rtdna.org/pages/convention-events/full-convention-coverage/tuesday–april-13–sessions/news-leadership-in-a-socially-connected-world.php  — coverage of this session from RTDNA.org

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.htm – the fascinating and fun mapping of Facebook data

http://www.fastcompany.com/1607273/exclusive-facebook-data-guru-speaks-about-why-facebook-threatened-to-sue-him?1270609084 - a profile of Pete Warden, who built the above map, and who wanted to help Facebook scientifically analyze all its publicly-available real-time data

http://www.youtube.com/ibmadvertising#p/u/2/LWvT4cJS1RM - IBM pitches itself as a real-time-web analysis company

http://www.youtube.com/ibmadvertising#p/u/4/tp7cIOIaN0o - another spot by IBM

http://www.stocktwits.com/ - using Twitter to analyze the real-time web, and perhaps predict stock performance

http://flixup.com/ - can Twitter predict box office success?

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-tv.html – Google TV, coming soon

http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/ – Yahoo gets into the TV business

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2010/04/13/daily.18/ - details about the mobile TV coalition announced today

http://mashable.com/2010/04/06/location-history-infographic/ – funny infographic detailing the history of geolocated data

Google mashup of the PDX boom mystery… crowdsourcing in breaking news

http://www.wtvr.com/about/station/videovault/ –WTVR’s video vault showcases the value of curated content, even if it’s not news any more

http://www.rtdna.org/pages/convention-events/full-convention-coverage/tuesday–april-13–sessions/2010s-top-digital-content-tech-trends–what-news-leaders-need-to-know.php – Coverage of this session from RTDNA.org

I subscribe to about 30 newsletters that keep me in touch with breaking news and trends in journalism, technology and social media. Most of these newsletters contain multiple posts – some like Mashable’s contain a dozen posts on some days. Do the math of all these posts in all these newsletters, and I found I had a lot of catching up to do. So that’s what I did today.

What’s in it for you? I’ve bookmarked 24 great posts that anyone in my business should read. They’re the best of the best, at least of what I’ve found from the past 2 weeks, and they’re worth your time. You can see them for yourself by checking either of my two bookmark feeds, via Publish2 or Delicious.

I add more bookmarks to these 2 feeds almost every workday, so feel free to subscribe to either or both. I can’t promise to make you smarter every day, but maybe I can save you some time in getting to the good stuff. If there’s a good post I missed, post a comment and I’ll take a look.

The 2009 Kneeland Advanced Media class

Spent the past 3 days in Dallas with the 2009 class of the Carole Kneeland Project’s Advanced Media Fellows.  I enjoyed sharing best practices for online news and social-network engagement with these very smart fellows and instructors, people and squirrels both.