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- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- Citizen journalism and traditional newsHere's a way to learn and improveRecord your video and then DON'T look at it right away. go do something else and look at it at least an hour later. Then see what you did wrong. Think about that but don't do it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Blogging, Planning, consciousness, Citizen Journalism, video
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Craig Newmark on eBay, Craigslist 'exit strategy'
- An evening with Craig Newmark is always a treat. The namesake behind the ever popular Craigslist has his signature shtick, but it is heartfelt.Think YouTube's Chad Hurley gets all the love?Newmark was the guest of honor at the Social Media Club's NYC meeting last evening and many of the new...
- Tags: Craigslist, Citizen Journalism
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Eight Democrats lock horns (online): So what?
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”AER YOU READY? The first debate of the 2008 presidential race is set for tonight!The Democrat field of eight will battle for air, and Internet time, in a 90-minute face-off to be broadcast on MSNBC...
- Tags: User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Politics, Political Campaign, John Edwards, Citizen Journalism, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Hillary Clinton goes viral: Be my citizen co-sponsor, please!
- Edition number 31 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”The Hillary Clinton campaign proclaims at her Website that each and every one of YOU can be HER “Citizen Co-Sponsor” of the Count Every Vote Act, "User Generated Politics" style: ...
- Tags: E-mail, Hillary Clinton, Vote Act
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Web 2.0 meets USA Today: Citizen journalism for the masses
- Web 2.0 meets USA Today: Citizen journalism for the massesJournalism should be NeutralJust present facts. No bias should be allowed in journalism. If the author presents a biased opinion, it should be "commentary," or "propaganda." If it's news, it should be non-biased and not withholding of facts...
- Tags: Web, bias, Web 2.0 Meets, Citizen Journalism, USA Today, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Web 2.0 meets USA Today: Citizen journalism for the masses
- From the editors of USA Today: "We have redesigned USAToday.com, but more important, we are expanding our editorial mission."HOW? By asking YOU to “Add YOUR voice to our coverage.”USAToday.com solicits “engage our website in whole new ways”:What’s everyone talking about?Interested in what your fellow readers are following? When scanning headlines,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Social Software, Amateur Content, Content, Social Web, Culture, Citizen Journalism
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Google CEO hosts Clinton: Is Hillary tech's friend?
- Edition number 25 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Barack Obama made a $1.3 million dollar star-studded Hollywood fundraising splash in California earlier this week, as I recount in "Barack Obama million dollar star in Hollywood” and "“Got $2500? Mingle...
- Tags: Media, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Legal, Government, Social Web, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Web 2.0, Local
- Blog posts 2007-02-24
- Citizen Journalist: Do you want to be one?
- At Yahoo’s “You Witness News” everyone is entitled to press credentials, since last December in "alliance" with Reuters:Were you there when news happened? Upload your photos and video here to have them considered for use in articles and features on Yahoo! News.The Associated Press is now "mobilizing" an "army" of...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Citizen Journalism, Social Web, Amateur Content, Social Media, Print, Newspapers, Citizen Journalist
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- Joe Biden has 226 MySpace friends: Can he connect?
- Joe Biden appears a bit lonely at MySpace. He counts 226 MySpacers among his friends almost a week after he announced he wants to be president of the United States. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attracted tens of thousands of Yahoo Answers shortly after announcing she intends to be the...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Biden, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Facebook, Government, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Local, Marketing, Media, MySpace, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Self-Promotion, User Generated Politics, Video, Web 2.0, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-02-04
- Hillary TV: Will 'User Generated Politics' get Clinton to the White House?
- A Digital Markets Blog political announcement: The 2007 campaign for the presidency of the United States will mark the prime-time debut of what I will be calling ‘User Generated Politics.”“All politics is local,” the old saying goes. “Every vote counts” is another favorite.My debut post at this Digital Markets Blog...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Media, Advertising, Citizen Journalism, Legal, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Clinton
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Will YouTube 'King Hurley' really share video riches?
- Will YouTube 'King Hurley' really share video riches?Young Indian research Journalists starts Citizen Journalism In IndiaA community news portal www.citizenxpress.com has been laucnhed in india by groyp of young indian research Journalists in december 2006.The community new portal www.citizenxpress.com is research work of ABC Media Research and Development Center, the...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, citizen journalism, video, video rich, King Hurley, portal, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-27
- Newspapers woo bloggers with mixed results
- Newspapers woo bloggers with mixed resultsYoung Indian research Journalists starts Citizen Journalism In Indiacommunity news portal www.citizenxpress.com has been laucnhed in india by groyp of young indian research Journalists in december 2006.The community new portal www.citizenxpress.com is research work of ABC Media Research and Development Center, the research wing of...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, citizen journalism, portal
- Discussion threads 2007-01-27
- Wikipedia: Should students trust it?
- Jimmy Wales, co-founder Wikipedia, admonished Microsoft for its efforts in seeking to correct what it deems to be inaccuracies in a Wikipedia entry, as I discuss and analyze in “Can Wikipedia handle the truth?”Conventional media “wisdom” is in accord with Wikipedia’s Wales. Google News headlines today include: "Microsoft tried...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Citizen Journalism, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Internet Data, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Content, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Yahoo: 36,147 people tell Hillary Clinton what to do
- Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is identified as “A Celebrity on Yahoo Answers!” She has been a member since September 29, 2006 and she is at Level One with 96 points. Since Clinton announced her candidacy last weekend, however, she is noted to have earned -3 points the past week....
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Yahoo, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Clinton, health, health care
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Can Wikipedia handle the truth?
- The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is Wikipedias own notion of “verifiability,” not truth, I pointed out last September in “Is Wikipedia ‘knowledge’ merely third party hearsay?” Wikipedia has an aversion to truth, as I discussed in “Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped.”Wikipedia co-founder Larry...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Microsoft, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Social Media conversations: Talking or selling?
- Social media conversations have entered the big leagues, the high-stakes presidential ones.The President of the United States is considered the most powerful person in the world; The political campaign to attain the presidency is among the most sophisticated marketing campaigns in the world.Hillary Clinton used a slick video-enabled Website campaign...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Citizen Journalism, Culture, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, Clinton, brand
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- New media journalism: Who will pay for news production?
- Time magazine, a 80 plus year old mainstream media icon, ended 2006 proclaiming its belief in “you” over mainstream media; “You” made the cover of its annual Person of the Year issue (see "‘Branded Conversations’ frame social media in 2007").Time begins 2007 paying homage to “you,” and uses the mainstream...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Media, Advertising, Citizen Journalism, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Brands, Self-Promotion, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Time Magazine
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Instant journalism: Who needs grammar?
- Does “instant journalism” breed “illiterate mush”?Nicholas Carr reflecting on Andy Abramson’s “The New Instant Journalism”:Ive found that most things that are "instant" are inherently good. Like instant soup and instant coffee, for instance. They dont taste like much, but theyre really quick to prepare. You boil some water, pour it...
- Tags: Nissin Food Products Co., Instant Journalism
- Blog posts 2007-01-07
- Blog buzz gets religion: Be buzzworthy, not boring
- Who in the blogosphere doesn’t want “Buzz”? Techmeme buzz, Digg buzz, Slashdot buzz…helps build excitement, and page views!Is blog buzz gained serendipitously?Techmeme uses a secret sauce algorithm to present “the latest buzz from leading online voices in technology,” but not necessarily all of the blogosphere’s “55 million" voices.Digg’s “digital media...
- Tags: Blogging, church, blog, Blog Buzz
- Blog posts 2007-01-07
- Can Digg go mainstream?
- Despite the seemingly continuous hand-wringing over the susceptibility of Digg to gaming and biases--or perhaps because of it—Digg is a favored topic, destination and “affiliate” among everyone writing on or about the Web.This post reflects the omnipresence of Digg in the online tech community: We ask “Digg this,” at the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digg
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
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