What do bloggers mean to politics?
Brookings will be offering a talk on "The Impact of the New Media" tomorrow, which will be available via webcast. Old and new media will be on hand to discuss the meaning of blogs and the like.
Forbes: “Every era has its prized commodity, cherished for its value and utility–gold in the 1850s, oil in the 1870s, water out West in the 1940s. Ours is data … we present the Masters of Information–those entrepreneurs and companies figuring out how to separate the gold from the gravel on the Web.” [via PaidContent.org]
The Center for Media Research reports via email today that: According to JupiterResearch, the number of online adults who prefer the Internet as their main source of news has grown over 35% in the last four years, at the expense of television and newspapers. Currently, over 26% of online adults prefer the Internet for national…
AOL press release: TVEyes revealed that its Podscope search engine will be integrated with AOL Search (http://www.aolsearch.com). In the coming months, AOL will offer visitors the ability to discover thousands of additional podcasts through the integration of Spoken Word Indexing(TM). This innovative search capability will allow fans to get audio search results and sample from…
Jimmy Wales the creator of Wikipedia, has launched a wiki designed to be a resource for information on issues, parties, and campaigns. Unfortunately, the effort demonstrates right out of the gate that highly charged issues may not be the best use of the wiki format where readers get to edit entries themselves. The battle has…
ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com: Joel Cere of Hill & Knowlton published a good, well-researched piece on CGM entitled Consumer-Generated: From mayhem to Marketing, which serves as a appropriate survey of key themes related to consumer-generated content. Regular readers know this is a hot topic for me lately.
Those of you who use a feed reader to access my content should be seamlessly receiving access to my content which is now being posted at ChipGriffin.com. I will continue to maintain Pardon the Disruption as an archive of my older posts, but everything new will now appear at ChipGriffin.com. The content will be very…