Social Media University, Global (SMUG)
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I’m at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference, called Health Journalism 2008, in Washington, D.C. I just met Scott Hensley from the Wall Street Journal‘s Health Blog, who is one of the panelists in this session on new media tools for telling stories. Appropriately, his presentation is going to be a blog. He … Continue reading “Multimedia Reporting”
Two recent blog posts that are required reading for SMUG students come from Chris Anderson and Jeff Jarvis. They explain why an institution like Social Media University, Global can exist (and much of what makes the rest of the Web work.) Anderson (Editor-in-Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail) has a link to … Continue reading ““Free” and Higher Education = SMUG”
Jeff Jarvis has a year-end wrap-up column in The Guardian that does a great job of summarizing the key developments in the media world. He calls 2007 “the year of Facebook.” I certainly agree with that, as regular readers of this blog would attest. I highly recommend this column for anyone looking for a succinct … Continue reading “In Case You Slept Through 2007”
In InformationWeek, “How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook,” Cory Doctorow predicts Facebook’s demise because Having watched the rise and fall of SixDegrees, Friendster, and the many other proto-hominids that make up the evolutionary chain leading to Facebook, MySpace, et al, I’m inclined to think that these systems are subject to a Brook’s-law parallel: “Adding … Continue reading “Sorry, Cory: Facebook More Like the Phone than Friendster”
The big news today was Facebook‘s announcement of its new advertising network, and the ability for brands to have pages. MySpace also has announced a major advertising initiative. Jeremiah Owyang has done a great job of summarizing what’s new on both of these platforms. When the Facebook system, especially the new Pages for businesses, launches … Continue reading “Facebook Ads Already More Relevant”