Blogs in Spanish

There is a very interesting survey about blogs in Spanish language made by a blog in Spain,Tinta China. Eventhough it includes Latin America in the the survey, it seems more representative of the Spanish blogosphere, which is more developed. Findings include habits in the blogosphere, sociodemographics, frecuency of posts, etc.

Hey, check this out!

You might well know now about OhmyNews. Why don't you be part of the online newspaper as a global citizen reporter. As you may know, it opened its citizen reporter login system to the world last April. You can find how to join it at the address below.

http://english.ohmynews.com/

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=8&no=219455&rel_no=1

PR person blogs about online journalism

I was doing some research for the super fun paper that is due this week and came across this blog for PR people. I thought this post was interesting and in the vein of what we have been discussing in class the past few months. Here is the cached link so you can find the post:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ueXuk5Ls0_EJ:online-pr.blogspot.com/+magazine+transition+online+print&hl=en

Big questions: how expensive will online news become? will the public have to take on the news themselves in order for it to be free?

Want to be a media entrepreneur?

"Every citizen is a reporter" is a well-known motto of OhmyNews, a South Korean online newspaper. Then, how about this? "Any journalism student can be a media entrepreneur." This is what Jeff Jarvis, a professional journalist and blogger, said at the Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference last year. What he meant is that a journalism student can get out of school and use low-cost editing tools, camera and software to create a media Web site to be an entrepreneur. Well, cosidering what we have learned and witnessed in the class, it sounds quite promising. I might need to think about that, cause I am gonna graduate soon. How about you guys?

No, Seriously. WATCH THIS.

Is this a crystal ball gaze into the future of journalism? Can we please discuss this?

WATCH NOW

Business blogging makes cover story of staid mag

Hey, check this out. Business Week's cover is BLOG and the articles inside offer a myriad of tendrils. Dan Gilmore is highlighted (he's trying to raise $ and interest for a new online co.)

I, being in that "what are you all talking about?" generation, felt like I have alot of company in not knowing how or why to get with the blog program, nonetheless want to. So, my generation isn't quite ready to be left in the dust.

A growing curiosity I have is: "who will fund blogs?" I am very curious as to when and if ever, some type of venture fund will ante up captital for a blog. VCs are part of the hard copy culture believers. And, though percieved as being cutting edge in financing ideas, VCs are some of the most conservative people I have ever met.

So follow this link and brace yourself for a huge time commitment. I have saved this article but will buy the hard copy mag tomorrow, and will peruse the links after I write my paper. I love paper, but not the kind that is 'due'.

Blogs Will Change Your Business

Why Blogs Suck.

I was playing around on the computer today and found something pretty funny. I typed in "blogs suck" on google and got a whole list of sites with that title. This one I found pretty amusing, even if it is an old post:

http://www.stephenesque.org/2004/10/why_blogs_suck.html

Now I don't think that blogs suck by any means, but I do think there is some truth into what he says about the people who post one sentence blogs that get tons of comments. I think my favorite part of the post is the comment at the bottom:

"it also gives people with no critical thinking skills the ability to
instantly become critics. (shudder)

as if critics who actually WENT to journalism school weren't
bad enough."

Don't you just love the way people percieve journalists??

Despite stephenesques' feelings, I love blogs. Regardless of whether it's political opinions or personal stories, people, including myself, enjoy reading about other people's lives for really no good reason other than the desire to be in everybody's business. This quality, good or not, is something that I have gotten in to a lot of trouble for in the past. So I guess blogs are perfect because you can be in anyone's business anytime and they actually want you there!

Oh, and I think pundit is my new favorite word.

Terra Incognita

The presentation was awesome. It showed some incredible and well develop techniques of story telling. However, I still wonder how does a journalism company or a freelance journalist may fund (or recover his money) from that kind of projects.

More on how Traditional Media might survive

Good article , on Christian Science Monitor Web site at:

News Papers struggle to avoid their own obit

I don't know much about Christian Science but his paper is pretty good.

Traditional Media is waking up...

Mostly in response to Megan's posts, I too would like to discuss where we are going to get our news. Right now I'm missing class and it is killing me. I finally got my youngest to school.

Interesting, this morning, as most mornings, I sat in the kitchen reading the papers (AAS and NYT) while my kids had breakfast, we talked about the day's schedule and I signed field trip forms and wrote out checks for lunch accounts.

Getting the news online is not, I beleive, an option at times like this. It is exclusionary. With hard copy, I can separate the sports section and hand it to my son who will comment on some trade, or statistic or upcoming game. My daughter usually looks at the weather page and updates us on what to expect. I pick out headlines, scan stories and pass on news that may be relevent to their day or a project that I know they are working on in school. Neither of them ever get online for news or sports, just IM and email.

For the past couple of weeks I have been pointing out biased news stories about races, cultures, etc. as I had a paper due on Diversity. Both my kids said that intolerance was alive and well in their schools.

So, while 2014 is entertaining, I think the stock play is in innovative delivery companies but I'm not ready to short the traditional media companies. Did you all know that Adobe bought out Macromedia? There is some grumbling about monopolies on some blogs. I think that neither of these companies had the resources to keep going on their own, but having only one company doing the development is not good. I have much more to say but I gotta go.

This from our president . . .

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make—it would hope—put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."

—Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

Discuss.

two interesting articles in The Economist

There are two articles that appeared in The Economist recently that are relevant to our class discussions. One, 'Yesterday's Papers,' appeared a few days ago and was an analysis of some statements made by Rupert Murdoch about the future of journalism. The other, 'Crowned at last,' was a special series of articles in a recent issue about the shift in power to consumers in the digital marketplace. These articles make several interesting points about how the Internet has changed advertising and the impact those changes are having on mainstream media outlets. I'd especially like to draw your attention to a graph that appeared in one of the articles, which forecasts a dramatic percentage increase in spending on Internet advertising this year. From the article: "[Internet advertising] was 32% up on 2003, according to a study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. And that growth is accelerating, leading some forecasters to suggest that the online ad market could double in value this year."

media convergence in Kansas

NPR did a very interesting two-part story on a company in Lawrence, Kan. that is a relatively successful innovator in media convergence. I wish I'd posted this before our conversation on business models, because it would have been interesting to discuss. But, I didn't, so I'm hoping we can discuss it on here.

bloggy

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