Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Nov 17th, 2007
Web 2.0 and social media are having a big impact not only in the way people interact with each other but, perhaps even to a greater extent, in transforming the ways in which big media companies and advertisers will do business in the future.
The impact is real and I think we are only seeing the […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Oct 22nd, 2007
Posted in Wired, Twitters Nate Ritter and Viss are closely following the events surrounding the California fires and posting updates of evacuations, things that are needed, and other important information.
Nate and Viss are using the hashtag #sandiegofire. Twitter users can enter “track sandiegofire” in SMS or IM and receive notifications whenever a tweet goes […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, New media, Social networking on Oct 9th, 2007
An interesting move happened today in what may be Google’s next step in its efforts to revive social networking as part of their global strategy.
I mentioned yesterday that Google was getting ready to launch Orkut 2.0.
Today Jaiku announced that they are being acquired by Google.
With the acquisition of Jaiku Google will gain access to Jaiku […]
Posted in New media, Social networking on Oct 8th, 2007
Google is starting to throw more resources behind its social networking site Orkut recognizing that the social networking phenomenon is very profound and powerful.
Orkut is very popular in Asia and Latin America where it has nearly 24 million monthly users. However it badly trails behind MySpace and Facebook in the US and Europe where […]
Posted in Citizen journalism, Media, New media on Oct 8th, 2007
The citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC for an undisclosed sum.
According to Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson the citizen journalism site will continue operating independently, just as it has been since launching in March of 2006.
Newsvine gets about 1.2 million unique visitors, 80,000 comments and 250,000 votes per month.
In explaining why Newsvine […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, New media on Sep 28th, 2007
Posted in Citizen journalism, New media on Sep 27th, 2007
The Burmese protests have been highlighted by blogs and for the first time in the history of popular uprisings in web videos posted in You Tube.
The protests led by Buddhist monks are being disseminated worldwide by Web Video.
Myanmar Protests Part 1
Myanmar Protests Part 2
The strong impact of the use of this new media in disseminating […]
Posted in Journalism, New media on Sep 25th, 2007
This past August I was invited again to participate in a panel on New Media and Journalistic Ethics during the Scripps Howard Latin American Media Ethics Seminar organized by the International Center for Journalists.
The ICFJ selects 10 participants from Latin American and Caribbean countries and brings them to Washington, DC, to participate in a […]
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