Posts from ‘March, 2006’

This center is co-hosting a gathering this May called “Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture,” to be held at Harvard Law School. Check out the conference wiki for more information.

Reuters: Google lets slip talk of online storage service: Google Inc. is preparing to offer online storage to Web users, creating a mirror image of data stored on consumer hard drives, according to company documents that were mistakenly released on the Web. The existence of the previously rumored GDrive online storage service surfaced after a […]

UPDATED NY Times: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its Public Relations Campaign. Under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters. But the strategy raises questions about what […]

Dave Winer: What is an unconference? First, you take the people who used to be the audience and give them a promotion. They’re now participants. Their job is to participate, not just to listen and at the end to ask questions. Then you ask everyone who was on stage to take a seat in what […]

Terry Heaton: TV News in a Postmodern World: New Metrics and Principles: What’s needed is a new metaphor to replace the old one, and new metrics upon which to place value in a world of unbundled media. The value will be there, because access to eyeballs (or eardrums) will always have value. But those eyeballs […]

If you don’t read it already, Digg has been the hot site in finding the latest Internet buzz among techies. The social bookmarking site allows users to vote on what sites are hot by adding their “digg” vote to the raw list of contributions. However, it has always been hampered by a weak comments feature, […]

AP: Reports: AT&T, BellSouth near$65B deal. AT&T is nearing a deal to acquire BellSouth Corp. for $65 billion, according to reports published Sunday. The companies were expected to announce the terms of the deal as soon as Monday, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Both papers cited unidentified sources, […]

Newsvine took off the wraps today, and I have to say it’s one of the best efforts yet in combining the knowledge of the community with the news. I’ll be saying more about it in an upcoming post, but this is one of the sites you have to watch if you care about the future […]

I’m at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication with a bunch of online journalists, of many stripes and motives. The one-day conference, held under the auspices of the Online Journalism Review, is not a bunch of lectures and panels but rather a collection of discussions. OJR will be covering the sessions in […]

All-around smart guy Tristan Louis has examined blog trends in the past year by taking the Technorati 100 from 2005 and comparing it against 2006. He found some interesting results, showing the dynamic nature of the blogosphere: Only 9 blogs moved up in the rankings, and there were 65 new entries to the list. That […]