Arsip: June, 2007
6 Useful Sites for Women
Rohit Bhargava lists 6 useful social media tools and sites for women. When it comes to social media tools, most are not gender specific. That’s a good thing, as it means they can be uniformly useful for everyone, but it’s a sign of evolution when more specifically targeted sites start to appear. It happened [...]— ikram • June 27th, 2007
Download MacKinnon’s WJEC Paper
Rebecca MacKinnon is in Singapore this week, presenting an academic paper in World Journalism Education Conference. Her paper (titled “Blogs and China Correspondence: How Foreign Correspondents Covering China Use Blogs,”) summarized the results of a survey she conducted last Fall of foreign correspondents who cover China. Please click here to download the paper in PDF [...]— ikram • June 27th, 2007
Launched: AYCN.net
This is the website of AMIC Young Communicators Network, that is described as “an online portal with one thing in mind; to provide a platform for media students the world over.” Another segmented social networking service? “Yes, this is not your usual Friendster or YouTube or even Google, where the entire galaxy is logged on without a [...]— ikram • June 27th, 2007
100 Blogs PC World Love
PC World pick up 100 blogs they love. “Of course, lots of the blogs we read deal with technology. But hey, we have personal lives, too.” Please click here to see all the blogs.— ikram • June 26th, 2007
Watch Out for MySpace
Newspapers need to watch out for online competition from a less obvious source like social networks, in addition to Google and Yahoo. According to a global study of youth media behavior commissioned by the World Association of Newspapers, “the importance of the social network as a disseminator of news and information is on the rise.” Many [...]— ikram • June 24th, 2007
The Minister Is Blogging - So What?
I don’t understand it why everytime a minister (of Indonesia) decided to set up his personal blog, we have to celebrate. We spread the happy news, visit the blog and leave a comment or two — like it’s something really fancy or will affect on our lives directly. I think it’s too much. In Indonesia, [...]— ikram • June 21st, 2007
Old Media Is In Trouble - Really?
I once wondered whether the newspaper are being killed or no. On August 24th 2006, a London-based weekly news magazine The Economics wrote a provocative-titled article “Who Killed The Newspaper?” but if we look at a report by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), the newspaper sales are increasing by 12.93%. So are they being [...]— ikram • June 21st, 2007
Kronologis.com
Yet another microblogging service. This one is likely focusing on Indonesian users only (because the website is written in Bahasa Indonesia) and specializes in mobile users. Any other microblogging services you know? Please share it down here! Link: kronologis.com— ikram • June 15th, 2007
No 1 on Friendster: Malaysians
Let’s talk about Friendster again. Alexa.com (where you can get information on website’s traffic from) recently showed that Friendster’s traffic breakout is: Malaysia - 22.4% Philippines - 21.8% Singapore - 20% Indonesia - 12.7% United States - 6% In other words, [...]— ikram • June 14th, 2007
Flickr Blocked In China?
It has been a week that Flickr has not shown images to users in mainland China, and it is likely because it has been blocked. “It is our understanding that Flickr users in China are not able to see images on Flickr, and we have confirmed that this is not a technical issue on our [...]— ikram • June 13th, 2007
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