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why do some celebrities’s wikipedia pages have their parents names on them

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Three Clicks: How to Tweet from the Press Box

(See Click 3 for info on this video clip)

This is Three Clicks -- a post about (approximately) three stories I read today.

1. Should Sports Reporters Be Permitted to Tweet Every Play?  (GeekWire)

GeekWire's Taylor Soper wrote this story as a follow-up to the mini-controversy surrounding the University of Washington's decision to reprimand a reporter for tweeting too much at a college basketball game last week.

The GeekWire headline asks a pertinent question, I guess, but here are two better questions: 

1. Why would a sports reporter think this is a good way to use Twitter?

2. Why does the University of Washington athletic department care?

Monday's GeekWire story on this spat said:

By my count, [reporter Todd] Dybas sent out 53 individual Tweets from tipoff until the final buzzer. A lot of those were simple Tweets like 'Wilcox 3,' or 'What touch!'

College basketball games last about two hours. So Dybas was tweeting approximately every 2 minutes 15 seconds. That's a lot -- and I think you can make a case that tweets like the two mentioned above add little value.

Here's my unsolicited advice for sports reporters who use Twitter at games:

- Skip the play-by-play. In almost every case, your followers are watching the game with you. And even if they're not, play-by-play tweeting isn't a great way for fans to follow the game, nor a good use of your time.

- Use your access. You're at the game; most of your followers are not. And you probably have a good seat. Tweet about things that that allows you to see and hear.

- Big picture. At opportune times (television timeouts in college basketball games, for instance), take a step back and analyze what's going on. 

- Quotes. Tweet a couple good quotes from your postgame interviews. These often are the newsiest tweets from a game.

- Photos. A good Instagram or TwitPic is a nice supplement to your tweets, helping your followers feel a little closer to the action (or the work life of a sports reporter). Of course, make sure the team's social media policy allows you to post pics (usually this is only an issue with game action, and your phone probably can't take good action photos anyway).

- Remember your audience. Most of your followers are fans of the team you're covering. Be objective, of course, but show some sympathy when the team struggles. At some point, say after your first two tweets about the team's field-goal shooting slump, the fans don't want or need to be reminded any more how bad things are going.

Okay, now here's unsolicited advice for the University of Washington: You don't need to limit Twitter play-by-play to protect your broadcast rights. 

No one is following a sports reporter's Twitter account because it's a good substitute for watching a game on TV. They follow because it's a good way to supplement the action on their television screens. We live in a two-screen world. Get used to it.

Also worth noting, UW folks: This quote from Doug Tammaro, the director of media relations at Arizona State -- which has no limit on reporters' tweets from a game:

I don’t know how you monitor that kind of thing, and we are just investing our energy elsewhere.

2. Hank Stuever's Popular Culture Journalism Class: Weingarten week! (Tonsil)

The Washington Post's excellent pop culture writer, Hank Stuever, is teaching at the University of Montana's journalism school this fall. His blog, Tonsil, features recaps of the classes, and the latest goes over Gene Weingarten's recent appearance via Skype. Read it for some insight on how one of the nation's best longform writers does what he does. 

Bonus: Have you read Weingarten's piece on the Great Zucchini? If not, do so ASAP.

3. Growing Up Observed (Slate)

Michael Apted's transcendent "Up" series has refreshed with another film -- out in Britain already, but debuting in the States in January. If you haven't watched any of these, you must: Started in 1964, the series tracks the lives of 20 Brits who were seven at the time of the first filming.

The New York Times and YouTube have trailers for the new one, 56 Up: here and here. But I'm recommending this Slate piece from 2007, written in the wake of 49 Up, which takes an existential look the series: Why do the subjects and the filmmaker keep doing it?  (It also grapples with Up's similarities with reality television.)

The clip at the top of the post is mentioned in the Slate piece.

Oh, and all the previous episodes (7 through 49) are available on Netflix streaming. My advice: watch one early one and "49 Up" before going to see 56.

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Three Clicks: Mark Cuban Blasts Facebook, Considers MySpace

Welcome back to Three Clicks, a roundup of items that caught my eye on the World Wide Web today.

Hi there. Even when I'm not posting regular Three Clicks updates, I am clicking and reading a lot of stories. I thought I'd lead off today by telling you one way I find a *lot* of good ones: Jason Hirschhorn's "Media ReDEFined" email newsletter (screenshot above).

If you like the sort of stuff I share here, you'll like this. He picks great content, and lots of it. 

You can get a feel for it by looking at his FeedBurner feed, and the signup page is here.

Anyway, here are three quick-and-dirty clicks. Well, actually four, since one is a two-parter.

1. Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine (readwrite)

"We are moving far more aggressively into Twitter and reducing any and all emphasis on Facebook," Cuban says, via email. "We won't abandon Facebook, we will still use it, but our priority is to add followers that our brands can reach on non-Facebook platforms first."

2. Mobile Ads Are the Future. They're Also Lousy (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)

Here are two of the problems mobile advertising faces: There's very little screen real estate on a phone, and it's hard to produce an ad that's not annoying. Good quote from web ad designer Al Rotches:

When I see an ad pop up on my phone, I get scared. When I’m on my phone, this is my thing. I don’t want to be tracked, I don’t want to be interrupted.

3a. Postgaming with Axelrod, Part 1 (Politico)

3b. Postgaming with Axelrod, Part 2 (Politico)

I read a ton of post-election analysis, but my favorite read was this two-part Q&A Politico's Mike Allen did with chief Obama strategist David Axelrod. Both originated in Allen's legendary "Playbook" email. 

You know why I think I liked it so much? A Q&A is raw journalism, straight from the source's mouth. Here's what this key player saw and thought (or what he said he saw and thought), and that's that. Simple and effective. 

Bonus Click: ESPN Camera Catches Rick Reilly Ordering Stu Scott To Credit His Twitter Feed (Deadspin)

Seeing this lame request accidentally caught on air -- and Steve Young's reaction -- is priceless. 

That's all for today. If I get a comment, retweet or share -- or if Stuart Scott credits me on SportsCenter -- I'll do one tomorrow, too. I promise.

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Three Quick Clicks: Mobile Ads That Work (Really? Some Do?)

Welcome back to Three Clicks, a regular(ish) roundup of items that caught my eye on the World Wide Web today(ish).

Here, quickly, are three links to items I read today (or recently). 

1. Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't (Wall Street Journal)

(I was able to read it without a subscription; hopefully those of you who also don't subscribe can see it too.)

Banner ads--the boxes or rectangular ads on many mobile websites or apps--are known as the "spray and pray" approach. Marketers, consumers and companies all said these ads are cheap, crude and annoy mobile users. Still, banner ads account for nearly $2 of every $10 spent on U.S. mobile ads, according to eMarketer.

Al Jazeera is de-emphasizing news and spending lots on sports.

I first read about this on TVNewser, thanks to a tweet from author James Andrew Miller, a k a @ESPNBook. The TVNewser post also links to a Guardian report that says Al-Jazeera's news director "stepped in to ensure a speech made by Qatar's emir to the UN led its English channel's coverage of the debate on Syrian intervention." 

3. Cheers: 'The Best TV Show That's Ever Been' (GQ)

Soon, we will run out of pop culture landmarks about which to write oral histories. But we have not hit that point yet, thankfully, and here's a good one on legendary sitcom "Cheers." 

Plenty of good stuff in this read -- inside stories from the creation and development of the show, frank talk about tensions between some actors, and lots of funny reminiscences. 

I also quite liked this quote from David Lee, a Cheers writer and executive producer:

On some shows, [the producers] say, "Oh, you gotta have 10 jokes per page." Glen and Les would go, "You know, it's better to get rid of the 'Fifty percenters,'—the jokes that are just chuckles—and be satisfied with the hundred percenters." If you have enough lesser jokes in the way, you actually start diminishing the value of the really good ones.

(Apologies if you have seen some of these already -- I am catching up after a busy weekend. But these still seemed worth sharing ...)

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Three Clicks: 'Readers Will Visit Because of Other Readers'

It's been an active week for Three Clicks. Inspiration from ONA? Boredom? You make the call.

1. How Journalists Can Turn Their Stories Into Conversations (Poynter)

Put simply: I spent some time managing comments at The Washington Post, and I agree just about every word of this post. This is great stuff from Tyler Borchers, a junior at Ohio University.

Here's my ranking of Borchers' top five observations:

2. "Commenting policy is an ongoing experiment within and between news organizations. Whether participation in that experiment happens on the company-wide or individual level, it requires meaningful interaction with readers. " 

3. "Readers will visit your website because of other readers. But you need to set an example for them first."  

4. "Being a 21st century journalist means curating news. It should also mean curating comments." 

5. "Any kind of commitment [to interact in the comments] is better than laissez-faire disregard." 

Borchers has a blog and is on Twitter, btw.

2. Hiring in the Digital Age (The Atlantic)

The most-tweeted quote from Bob Cohn's piece may end up being, "Today, everyone is an editor in chief." And I agree.

But I also really liked this:

We look for what Gabriel Snyder, editor of The Atlantic Wire, calls "keyboard presence." Just as actors can have stage presence and athletes can have field presence, a good web writer is a natural in front of the screen.

3. Fab Furore: Is It Time to Re-evaluate the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour? (The Guardian)

The Beatles followed up their masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in 1967 with "Magical Mystery Tour," a pretty darn good album and an, um, puzzling film.

(This Guardian piece sums up public reaction to the film's BBC1 broadcast on Boxing day, 1967, by simply writing, "Most were not best pleased.")

As Paul, Ringo and the others who make Fab Four decisions these days prepare to release a "spruced up" Magical Mystery Tour DVD, BBC arts program "Arena" is set to debut another look at the film in Magical Mystery Tour Revisited. 

Anthony Wall, Arena's longtime editor, watched MMT on BBC1 in 1967, and he says:

I am that textbook 16-year-old who sat there in the front room, with the indoor aerial in one hand, thinking I was watching something completely wondrous. I can remember looking back at my mother and the neighbours, who were saying, 'Absolutely shocking – outrageous.'

I'm all for counter-intuitive revisionism, especially when it comes to the Beatles. Although I should add these bits of text from the Guardian's piece:

The film remains a challenging viewing experience. ...

Within about five minutes, the film begins leaping around with no regard for narrative sense. ...

The editing is often awful. ...

Some scenes aren't just inexplicable, but arm-chewingly tedious. ...

The Arena film and the DVD rerelease might be seen as proof of the revisionism regularly perpetrated by the two surviving Beatles and Apple Records (see also 2003's "Let It Be ... Naked," the stripped-down recasting of the Beatles' worst album).

Still, I will watch both if possible in the U.S. (I have never seen the original film).

And Let It Be is not the Beatles' worst album: Beatles For Sale is. 

Bonus Click: Oreo Gets Dunked by One of the Best Twitter Replies Ever (AdWeek)

Who knew AMC Theatres had such good social media presence?

Your turn: I think I'm tired of this Tumblr theme. Anyone have suggestions for a new one?