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Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time.
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October 28, 2009
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October 27, 2009
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87 things from Google. Some amazing stuff.
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ANtony Mayfield's presentation on the future of the web
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Guide for Independent media to navigate current media turmoil and reinvent journalism.
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New from Mark Briggs, author of Journalism 2.0. An e-learning module with everything you need to create an independent news site from scratch - without contracting out for Web design, coding or consulting. Anyone has the ability to make their site interactive and engaging. Mark has discovered stuff we've never seen before.
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October 26, 2009
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"Adventure is discomfort in retrospect" - metaphor for current digital transition?!
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Technorati State of Blogosphere 2009: Those who use Twitter say they do so to promote their blogs, bring interesting links to light, and to understand what people are buzzing about. 50% of Part Timers say they use Twitter to market their businesses. Other uses of Twitter, like interacting with companies (24%), politicians (11%), and celebrities (9%), are much less popular.
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Edelman's Steve Rubel on leanring to leave the laptop at home. It's not just a luggage issue: "I find I pay attention more in meetings when my laptop is closed - even if I am using my phone for notes."
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Yahoo-owned GeoCities once boasted millions of users and was the third most popular destination on the web. Yahoo, which acquired the site for $3.57bn (£2.17bn) in 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, said sites would no longer be accessible from 26th October.
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Reuters and the Amplified network are bringing together users of Twitter to discuss the idea that social media has evolved to the point that it can help solve real world problems.
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More than half of office workers use sites like Twitter and Facebook for personal use during the working day, and admit wasting an average of 40 minutes a week each.
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October 24, 2009
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The median age of a Twitter user is 31, which has remained stable over the past year. The median age for MySpace is now 26, down from 27 in May 2008, and the median age for LinkedIn is now 39, down from 40. Facebook, however, is graying a bit: the median age for this social network site is now 33, up from 26 in May 2008.
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FOE (Feed over E-mail) is a new kind of bypassing technology that uses e-mail to transmit information between the user and the server.
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Was there a Twitter revolution in Iran? To Iason Athanasiadis, an independent journalist whose detention there sparked a global uproar that culminated in his release, the answer comes quickly: No.
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analysis (and demolition?) of news corp pay arguments against google.
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October 23, 2009
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RSS/Atom based news tracker with search, republishing and mapping.
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Robert Thomson of WSJ v Marissa Mayer of Google at Web 2.0o COnf on "whither journalism"
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For China, the summit was an act of statecraft. Xinhua was there representing not its own interests but those of the Chinese Communist Party as the embodiment of the nation’s voice. For the rest, the summit was about business.
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October 22, 2009
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Ofcoms UK mobile sector assessment
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ADam W has packaged blog advice for MM journalists intop a handy free and downloadable e book
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Power of internet will be measuerd less by traffic and hits, more by ability to connect
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Nokia mobile tools for basic level phones in developing countries...
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"the mobile web will be 10 times as big as the more traditional desktop Internet, and that it will grow much faster"
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CIA using open source information to monitor the web
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Tom Firedman on why we need to fix education as well as finance - and the collapse of the Middle (classes)
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excellent post on the "aggregation" v pay war: There can only be one loser in the Battle of the Links — the newspapers. Aggregators will simply look elsewhere for the content, and eyeballs will be dragged away with them. Brand loyalty is increasingly a thing of the past, especially when it comes to consuming news online
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October 21, 2009
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Blog aggregation as a coming of age web news service
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New survey
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October 20, 2009
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David W pushes back on Lessig
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Lessig questions whether a move towards increasing government transparency will lead towards better government or, as he fears, towards cynicism, disinterest and disengagement from the political process.
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Nieman looks at the AP triple P strategy
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Downie Report on future of US newspaper journalism
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October 19, 2009
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Stephen Fry's mea culpa plus essay on the power of Twitter: A pleasant twittery microblogging service that I joined in the spirit of curiosity and fun has emerged as a real force in the land and it is of course fascinating and pleasing to see this
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