Interesting, chatty article about the strengths, weaknesses and hopes for the future of new media compared to old media. Very refreshing to read a balanced view rather than “digital media is undermining real news!” or “old media should just die already!” An argument from a Slate editor to do away with anonymous commenting online. What […]
McSweeney’s the independent publisher posted on its blog some amusing questions and reinterpretations of some notable films. The reason A Current Affair and Today Tonight are successful. Also the reason why so many people are unconvinced about human activity causing climate change. Journalism continues to evolve. This article is about Facebook’s role in ‘social journalism’. […]
WordPress’s visual editor that I usually use to put links in isn’t working today so I’ve put these in manually. Let me know if they’re not working. NASA is about to launch a new satellite that’s going to monitor airborne crap on Earth. Oil prices are the highest they’ve been in two and a half […]
Relocating is hard work so it’s a shortish one this week. News Ltd’s new iPad newspaper The Daily effort fails to impress the reviewer at ReadWriteWeb, falling down predictably by just putting a normal newspaper in the shape of an iPad. In related news, The Age has had a resdesign in an attempt to retain […]
Or: why we need both ‘to tweet’ and ‘to twitter’ There’s been some discussion among grammar/web geeks about correct terminology around social media platform of the hour Twitter. Here’s my weigh-in/explanation for anyone who cares. When you’re tweeting, you’re posting a tweet via a Twitter account. When you’re twittering, you could be doing anything at all […]
So says a Twitter exec. And, he’s right. It’s a social media tool that existing social networks use to communicate and grow and that people use to form new social networks. Duh. Quick vocab lesson Social network = a network of people who interact with each other, often around a particular activity eg a book […]
Some articles popped up today all about non-Gen-Y social media users. Over 45s have been Facebook’s fastest growing demographic for a while now, so it’s not new news, but it’s still interesting*. An American survey reports that ‘Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% […]
March 18, 2011
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