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Shan Luo

Our Microblogging Lives: Work, Home, Lunch, Sleep? - 0 views

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    According to a study, the top 5 most frequent microblogging posts are "working," "home," "work," "lunch," and "sleeping."
Nicole Webb

Google Sidewiki encourages annotations - 0 views

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    Google's latest application Sidewiki is subverting the roles of users and allowing them to partake in the creative process by posting comments in the sidelines of webpages.
Tasama Vatanaputi

Facebook Isn't Private, and 7 Other Things You Should Know « Legal Andrew - 0 views

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    From the discussion in the class about the copyright of whatever we posted in facebook. Here you can see at the number 4.
yunju wang

Anti-video-game Crusader Sues Facebook for $40M - PC World - 0 views

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    Thomson is placing a law sue to Facebook, claiming that Facebook has harmed him by not removing angry postings.
anonymous

GuruStorms: Brainstorm with the World's Experts - 0 views

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    The new site lets anyone post a question along with a monetary "reward" for answers. Then all you have to do is wait for the experts to weigh in.
yunju wang

A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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  • Still, the Times seems likely to attract many readers even after it begins charging for content.
  • Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit's two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether. This summer, The Boston Globe, which is losing more than $50 million a year, survived only by giving in to the draconian cutbacks demanded by its owner, the New York Times Company, while the Times itself, weighed down by the Globe, had to take out a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico's richest man, at a junk-bond-level interest rate of 14 percent a year.
  • The traditional three staples of newspaper advertising—automotive, employment, and real estate—have all drastically declined, thanks to Craigslist, eBay, the travails of Detroit, and the consolidation of department stores (resulting in fewer retail ad pages). Meanwhile, the steady expansion of space on the Internet has caused online ad rates to crash, and these are not expected to recover even when the economy as a whole does.
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  • When it comes to mismanagement, then, the newspaper business seems in a class with Detroit. Unlike GM, though, newspapers offer a product that consumers still value. But how to cash in on it? As the old business models fade, new ones are urgently being tested. Surveying the blackened landscape, I searched for new buds—and stumbled upon something much larger.
  • it seems overwhelmed by gadgets and gizmos, features and fluff. Technologically in a class by itself, the paper has seemed less adept at grasping the Web's potential to spotlight issues and stir debate. This summer, for instance, the blogosphere lit up over "The Great American Bubble Machine," Matt Taibbi's provocative Rolling Stone article about the political and financial power of Goldman Sachs.
  • building sufficient Web traffic to attract advertisers.
Susanne Gierds

Interview with Arianna Huffington: - 0 views

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    The publisher of America's most-famous blog lashes out at the poll and political horse race-driven mainstream media, saying it'll be up to the bloggers to make coverage of the next presidential election interesting. Those same bloggers, she argues, could also spell trouble for Hillary Clinton.
Huang Jing

Small Newspapers Aiming to Go Online - 1 views

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    Digital publishing company Pressmart Media is launching ePortal, a hosted service which includes tools for content and interface management that will allow publications to post and update a variety of content to a domain of their choice.
Huang Jing

Google Social Search aims to make social networks more useful - 0 views

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    Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.
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