People all over have decided to jump on the bandwagon of blogging to get there stories and information out there. There are blogs written about everything and I do mean everything. Recently Jessica Cutler, began blogging about her sexual escapades on Capital Hill and now is having her book published.
“Anything that helps someone who is writing come to the attention of the public is going to help them on their road to being published,” says Robert Miller, president of Hyperion, which in June will release The Washingtonienne, a novel by Jessica Cutler. She’s the woman who a year ago, on her short-lived blog, gained notoriety in Washington, D.C., for dishing about her sexual escapades on Capitol Hill.
Bloggers get Rich!
As the internet popularity and technology grows more everyday newspaper readers are becoming less and less in their breed. There is no longer much use for newspapers because you can access news articles, classified, and anything else and more that newspapers have in two second on the internet. Newspapers are constantly challenged with how to keep their material alive.
“There are pockets of people within every (newspaper) who think we should be doing more on the Internet, but there are also other pockets of people who wish it would just all go away,” said Ian Murdock, senior vice president of the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Internet’s U.S. audience has steadily climbed during the past decade, reaching 164 million people who spent an average of 84 minutes per day online during March, according to comScore Media Metrix. And while they’re surfing the Net, they’re often reading stories most newspaper publishers offer for free.
No more Newspapers!
TiVo is currently trying to make a deal with Google and Yahoo so that you can search and order movies online and then send them to your television to watch.
Both search giants have for now focused on PCs and the Web, but ultimately, industry observers believe, their plans will involve porting Web video clips to the television, which generally offers viewers a better video experience.
Google and Yahoo are in such fierce competition that neither wants to let the other land a deal with TiVo that might provide an edge. That could strengthen TiVo’s hand at the negotiating table, one source said.
For example, a TiVo deal might allow Google or Yahoo users to find video files on the Web and then watch them on their televisions. Web surfers might provide some personal information, including their TiVo serial box number, in order to download video directly to their TiVo box. A credit card number might also be required, if the video had an associated fee. TiVo would collect a share of the fees from either customer payment or from advertising-supported video.
Moving on Up!
In the past newspapers, magazines, and broacasting network who purchased Assoicated Press (AP) stories and pictures could also reproduce this information online with no extra charge. As of April 18, 2005 the AP will now charge extra to reproduce their stories and pictures online because of the growing popularity and use of the internet.
Most of the 15,000 news outlets that buy AP’s news, sports, business and entertainment coverage have been allowed to “re-purpose” the same material online at no extra cost since 1995. At that time, graphical Web browsers were just beginning to transform the Internet from an esoteric computer network to a mass medium.
The new pricing policy, effective Jan. 1, begins to shift some of the funding of AP to the growing online market, as technological advances and digital devices are making it ever easier for people to get their news whenever and however they want it.
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For most people blogging is just a hobby and not something people put too much thgouht into, yet now some companies are saying blogging could jepordize your job.
Bloggers write about their lives to keep friends and family up-to-date, talk about their industry, discuss hobbies, or rant about their favorite reality TV show. But posting pictures of you at work, disclosing confidential information about your employer, or bad-mouthing your co-workers could get you in hot water for committing inappropriate behavior.
Don’t wanna lose your job?
Apple is giving all PC’s a run for their money! Apple just came out with the new mac mini that can do all the things a PC can for half the price of a PC. Something that could be very useful to a person on a budget.
Now, even my performance-oriented, home-built PC is getting a run for its money from Apple’s latest, greatest product. How much money? Try a starting price of $499 for a well-appointed 1.25 gigahertz Mac computer equipped with OSX in a box that’s probably smaller than the phone sitting on your desktop. And a heckuva lot prettier.
On a budget?
Today’s world is very fast-paced and full of technology. Everyone needs a way to be able to get in touch with someone on the go, becuase today people don’t stay in one place for a long period of time. Suncom has invented a cell phone just for kids that is only for emergency uses and to call Mom or Dad.
Firefly (ZOOM) With adults, teens, and even the elderly already using mobile phones, it seems inevitable that carriers would target the last remaining group of people who haven’t joined the cellular revolution - children. The Firefly, a new handset made by Chicago-based Firefly Mobile Inc. and offered by US carrier SunCom Wireless, aims to put a mobile phone in the hands of children ages 8-12.
A Parent’s Dream
These days you can access just about any form of media anywhere. There is always a way to get information and entertainment. New technology is now even offering television in the car! What will they think of next!
A new generation of products is promising users the ability to remotely access their TVs from around the house on a local network or from around the world via a broadband Internet connection.
TV to go!
A journalist is a writer who collects, writes, edits, and presents news for all forms of the media. A journalist does not have to be a employee to any of these forms of media though. I believe that anyone can be a journalist. A journalist is just someone who reports news they have investigated and found out. Drudge is as much of a journalist as Katie Couric he has invested news or gossip and reporting it to the society, just as Katie Couric does every morning.I do not think that the internet really changes the definition of news people still investigate and report the news yet on the internet. THe only way it could change it is that it can get to the society faster.This is also how it challenges the definition of a journalist, it can get to people faster than any other form of media.
Blogging has become the new “Rachel” haircut of our society. Everyone is doing and has taken over parts of our journalistic world. Some love it and others want to band it as though it was murder of the “true” journalist.
Blogging is at once serious journalism, startup business, frustrated ranting, amusing minutiae, relentless self-promotion and revenge of the nerds. (What is the difference between conservative and liberal nerds? Conservative nerds have guns.) In other words, it is a subculture with cultlike loyalty to the phenomenon. Because of this strong sense of community, there is unusual generosity and mutual help among bloggers. Rosenberg, for example, encouraged me into blogging, and is thus my “blog-father.”
Bloggers take over!
Like the movies ‘The Incrediblies’ or ‘ Monster’s Inc.’ ? Well there stock is not doing good due to the fact they aren’t having another great movie come to theaters anytime soon. This could mean not as successful movies for the company.
Routh said this implied that although the first quarter should be strong, driven by the home video debut of “The Incredibles,” the rest of the year will see a decline in results because Pixar doesn’t have another feature in theaters until 2006.
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As of six days ago Nepal’s media was been shut down and democracy is no more. Nepal’s king decided to take over all civil rights and is not longer allowing any sort of freedom of expression.
Nepalis now have no freedom of assembly, expression or opinion; no right to information, property or privacy; and no protection from preventive detention. The government has banned any criticism of the king’s action for six months, and any public comment that could affect the morale of the security agencies.
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Journalist are concerned that bloggers are taking away their journalistic creditibility.
Web publishers and bloggers are already stealing readers, advertisers and classifieds. Particularly for young people, journalism has become, in the words of NYU professor and PressThink.org blogger Jay Rosen, more of a conversation than a lecture.
The news media has their rights according to the first ammendment, yet recently their has been a leak in the system allowing the news media to have to much information.
Twice in the past month, sensitive grand jury material from high-profile investigations has found its way into the hands of the news media, setting off a collision between the rights of the accused and the First Amendment.