I’m not sure if Rupert Murdoch is a brilliant business mind, just doesn’t get the Internet, or just plain nuts. Maybe buying MySpace was a good idea when News Corp bought it, but it certainly isn’t holding much value now. Now with his massive newspaper holdings also having trouble, if his papers are following all [...]
That’s One Way To Get People To Stop Reading Your Papers: Microsoft To Help News Corp Get Off Google
Filed Under: Citizen Journalism, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Citizen Journalism, journalism, newspapers, online news, Social Media, Web 2.0
Raincity throws down the gauntlet to VANOC: Let citizen media in!
If there is one city that, IMHO, has lead the charge of citizen journalism-media-coverage it’s Vancouver. Between Raincity Studios and NowPublic we have either supported or provided coverage of the Olympics that cannot be beat. Yesterday Dave Olson and Raincity threw down the gauntlet at VANOC to allow them and other independent and unaccredited journalists [...]
Filed Under: Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Raincity Studios, Vancouver 2010, Vancouver Olympics, VANOC, Winter Olympics
Tweet, tweet irony in Vancouver’s mayoral race
Fresh on the heels of what could be argued as the first President that social media elected came a social media gaff in Vancouver’s mayoral race. The story broke in the Vancouver Sun and was tweeted and blogged by many local digerati including Colleen of BuzzNetworker: The lessons to take out of this? Register your [...]
Filed Under: Citizen Journalism, Social Media Tagged With: gregor robertson, npa, peter ladner, politics, Social Media, twitter, Vancouver, Vision Vancouver
Again The Globe & Mail Leads Newspapers Into Uncharted Waters: Mathew Ingram Tapped As Communities Editor
Image by cfarivar via Flickr As conservative as Canadian business have been jumping onto the Web 2.0-Social Media bandwagon, the Globe & Mail newspaper has been ahead of the curve. Yes, they kept a walled garden up for a while, but Mathew Ingram has been blogging there for years now and maintaining his own personal [...]
Filed Under: Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Citizen Journalism, GAM, Globe and mail, journalism, newspapers, NowPublic
Vancouver Board of Trade Panel on Non-Profits and Social Media: I got ya covered
Thanks to a little late night tweeting and e-mailing I have a media pass to today’s Vancouver Board of Trade event and will be there with camera and laptop in hand (or on back): As part of the Vancouver Board of Trade’s Tough Talk for Tender Causes™ series, the Case for New Communication Tools panel [...]
Filed Under: Citizen Journalism, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: non-profits, Social Media, Vancouver Board of Trade, Vancouver BOT
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