An Introduction to Blogging

Bloggers, get your phones and call. It would make your posts more interesting. At least, email."It seems to me to be a basic point. Haber's post on my blog would have been more interesting if he actually got me to talk about my reporting. I might have even inadvertently...

RIAA gets shut-down in a recent case.

Richard Komen summarizes the issues expertly here. This sounds nice and rational to me."A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v....

Are you watching? Then this might not surprise you -- content not network is ...

I've been talking about these trends which appeared to be obvious to anyone who works as I do with young folks. Here are some research notes about who and how many are looking for programs, and are increasingly uninterested in TV the way it has always been."consumers are...

Podcast: Web 2.0 is in the 'AIR'

This is a good podcast, at least the explanation of the differences between Web 3.0 (context aware applications) and semantic web. It talks about Adobe's Air platform, which lots of people are probably using, but haven't realized what Air is all about.

Fascinating facts about blogging and bloggers

Calling bloggers a "market segment" rather than a "market niche" reflects how the blog and blogging have become a part of life. According to BIGresearch, more than 1/4 of adults blog. "Bloggers are younger and higher percentages are Hispanic & African American than the...

AP announces ad-supported mobile news service

"Mobile News Network will launch this summer. The ads will be local, but AP will do the ad-serving. This story was written up in some news outlets as an iPhone story, hovever, several phone manufacturers are working with AP to carry the news service. There are plans to follow...

AP announces ad-supported mobile news service

"Mobile News Network will launch this summer. The ads will be local, but AP will do the ad-serving. This story was written up in some news outlets as an iPhone story, hovever, several phone manufacturers are working with AP to carry the news service. There are plans to follow...

AP announces ad-supported mobile news service

"Mobile News Network will launch this summer. The ads will be local, but AP will do the ad-serving. This story was written up in some news outlets as an iPhone story, hovever, several phone manufacturers are working with AP to carry the news service. There are plans to follow...

AP announces ad-supported mobile news service

"Mobile News Network will launch this summer. The ads will be local, but AP will do the ad-serving. This story was written up in some news outlets as an iPhone story, hovever, several phone manufacturers are working with AP to carry the news service. There are plans to follow...

It can't happen here: cyber crowd finds, identifies, and videos car thief in ...

I noticed the headline in the NYTimes, but I forgot to read it until slashdot reminded me. The NYTIMES story includes the txts that were put online. But the criminal in this case got his photo taken and uploaded to the Net, got the location of the purloined card, geotagged,...

Is this analysis useless? King Gillette might have made it so.

Sorry, but I think that Johnathon Handel's analysis might be useless content, though it is titled "Is Content Worthless?" He asserts that he can list the reasons (even enumerating them -- he lists six) for loss of value:"Everyone focuses on piracy, but there actually six...

User-generated content leading to new jobs in news organizations

As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...

Twittered this to avoid a heart attack

Interesting survey of who is and who is not using twitter as tool for reporting. This semester I taught it to my CAR students. It is useful if you hone down who you follow. It is a great tool for encouraging short sentences (limited to 140 characters). The Brit pols have the...

Blogging to death not an official diagnosis...so far

"no official diagnosis of death by blogging" according to Matt Richel in the NYTimes, has been made yet. He outlines some of the hidden hazards of blogging, such as becoming immobile for hours, weight gain, and the stress of having to make money by writing thousands of short...