Daily Dose of social media: we follow, user powered Twitter directory

We follow: a user powered Twitter directory — This directory helps you find Twitter users by tags. Tags like “social media,” “politics,” “bikes,” “science,” “astronomy” and more. In fact, there are many tags and more are being added all the time. This could be a great tool for journalists to find people to follow for their beats. Are you a science blogger? Go to the science tag and go find people to follow.

It’s also a great tool for people new to Twitter. The people listed in this directory get Twitter. Watch what they do, understand why the do it and take their best lessons. This could be a huge tool for beatbloggers. We’ll be watching this closely in the coming weeks.

GooseGrade Brings Citizen Editing to WordPress Blogs – One of the biggest problem that bloggers run into is a lack of copy editors. For many bloggers and beatbloggers, this new plugin could be huge. Many of our readers have a keen eye for grammar and notice mistakes in our work. Imagine if we could harness that power?

Extending gooseGrade’s philosophy of harnessing the power of the Internet to help catch and correct these issues, this plugin closes the loop on WordPress stand-alone blogs, allowing submitted corrections to be seen from within the WordPress dashboard. The corrections list is very Wikipedia-like, showing the original block of text on the left, and the corrected block on the right. One more click and the edit is committed to the post and you are done. Brilliant!

We crowd source reporting. Why not copy editing? (Tip submitted by Daniel Bachhuber).

Best of show at SXSW Web awards revealed — Check out the great work done and get inspiration. Even if a company or product has nothing to do with journalism that doesn’t mean we can’t learn something from what others are doing. Journalism could benefit greatly from outside perspectives. The Web awards at SXSW showcase some of the coolest stuff on the Web today. Check it out.