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Now public: newspapers are dead

Now public: newspapers are deadApples and OrangesThe comparisons should be between blogs and newspapers, and between professonal journalists and citizen journalists.I have a hard time eating breakfast with a PC on the table instead of a newspaper. And I certainly can't take a PC into the bathroom to read...

Tags: Blogging, citizen journalist, blog, Professional Journalist

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

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

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How a student fooled the world's media

On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...

Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-13

NCTE recognizes the evolution of writing

Earlier this year I helped my oldest son edit a paper he had written for his English class. Although it was fairly well-developed, I suggested that he break up his paragraphs into more manageable chunks. Don't be afraid to address an idea and then move onto the next...

Tags: Journalist, Student, NCTE, Web 2.0, Blogging, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Ice, Swine, and Sun

Ice, Swine, and SunRudy you can't polish a turd!You bang on about how Sun is the only tech company that has any solutions that work. Your blog description reads "A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris". That is misleading..no it's a lie...

Tags: Blogging, Operating systems, blog, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, SWINE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-03-07

Students: how to pitch a killer product

As I am a British citizen, I like to keep abreast of issues at home; land of Queen Elizabeth II, home of crap dental treatment, Yorkshire puddings, witty sarcastic humour, Monty Python and fish 'n chips. By all that, I mean I read the ZDNet.co.uk pages from time to time....

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Journalist, Student, Public Relations, Entrepreneurship, EAI, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-24

Let’s talk about the economics of great journalism

Responding to various recent postings about journalism, including Ethan Zuckerman, Seth Godin, Dan Gillmor, Amy Gahran and Lisa Williams. I think the economics of journalism and ethics are deeply related and we tend to talk about them separately, emphasizing the dying channels for distribution at the expense of understanding the...

Tags: Journalism, Coverage, Reporter, News, ON24, Team Management, Benefits, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-01-19

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Consumer Watchdog overreacts about Gmail

Consumer Watchdog overreacts about GmailRE: Consumer Watchdog overreacts about GmailThis group sounds like they would be horrified to find out that e-mail doesn't go straight from one computer to another, but hops along several computers. Any computer between point A and point B can read your message. E-mail is...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., e-mail, Consumer Watchdog, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?

Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Citizen journalism might try to kill you

Citizen journalism might try to kill youDouble edged swordCitizen journalism almost sounds like a contradiction. One one hand, so many people nowadays carry a device that can at least take snapshots, but more are taking video. Real journalists can't get to where a story is very fast so it takes...

Tags: Citizen Journalism

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false

updated: A citizen journalist's report this morning that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a severe heart attack and been hospitalized is not true, Apple spokespeople told ZDNet this morning. The initial report cited an unnamed "reliable" source saying that Jobs was suffering chest pains and shortness of breath. ...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CNN, Attack, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Citizen journalism and traditional news

I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport.  I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...

Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Second Life a terrorist training camp?

Second Life a terrorist training camp?Next they will say thatlittle boys playing cowboy and indians and army are terrorist's in training. Enough of the stupid ignorance! Not everything is evil and leads to "terrorist training!" Geez! ]:)Re: Second Life a terrorist training campIt seems that everything about internet is a...

Tags: Workforce management, Big Brother, Second Life, terrorist training, training

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

Gates plans his leave amid great change

Gates plans his leave amid great changeGates forced out as US Antitrust RemedyWe do not tolerate barons and kings in the USA. What has happened to Bill Gates is not of his choice. Robber barons like him do not belong in our polite society. The USA was founded on this...

Tags: Strategy, Servers, Billg, Bill Gates, Abramoff, great change, leave

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

Senate takes step away from Real ID

Senate takes step away from Real IDMorons AboundHow can the Senate not vote for a Real ID Bill? You have some of the biggest document fraud cases in history coming from illegal aliens trying to enter the American workforce. The social security card is a joke. You can take a...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, social security card, RealID, REAL ID, immigration bill, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

New Apple patent hints at touch screen ecosystem

New Apple patent hints at touch screen ecosystemNot a touchscreen.Larry, reading the patent, this doesn't appear to be a touchscreen on both sides. The patent describes a display on top and a "force-sensitive touch-surface" on the bottom. IOW, it describes a mousepad placed on the back of a handheld device.Mousepads...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Mousepad, touch screen, patent, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

Welcome to 1984, folks

Welcome to 1984, folks. Its been a bit delayed, but were getting there.Thats what British journalist John Naughton concludes in an excellent Observer piece about the creeping and creepy power that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are amassing through the establishment of gigantic server farms all over world. Naughton...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-22

Now public: newspapers are dead

How much do we really want the average person to contribute to the newsgathering process, to politics and to the culture itself?" Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch asks. I met La Bambi this week at the iHollywoodForums Digital Media Summit in Hollywoods grand old Roosevelt hotel. She was on Michael Strouds...

Tags: Blogging, La Bambi, Pluto, Brody-Trotsky

Blog posts 2007-03-17

USA Today adds social networking features

The online version of USA Today has undergone a major redesign, adding a bunch of social features to allow readers to create a profile, write a blog, comment and vote on articles, upload images (citizen journalism-style), and send each other messages. The general response throughout the tech-blogosphere has been positive,...

Tags: Blogging, RSS, networking, USA Today, social feature, blog, social networking

Blog posts 2007-03-05