New Media Portal

It seems like everybody nowadays has a lot of things to say to others and they do not need to say it in very details. That’s why we now have this so-called “microblogging”. Wikipedia says, micro-blogging is “a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life [...]

Ian Delaney, a London-based journalist and the editor of NMK, shared his notes about the future of blogging. These notes was prepared for a roundtable discussion organized by Microsoft and Weber Shandwick (one of their PR houses). I will write down here some:

The New Media Knowledge annual forum 2007 is being held on August 13th, 2007. This forum will discuss the business and digital issues of the day, the year, and the age. It is said that the forum will act as a melting pot of the essential strategies for commercial success in a digital age. Senior executives [...]

Jemima Kiss from Guardian Unlimited shared a story about an Amnesty International’s event last night. It was on a subject “that doesn’t receive anywhere near enough attention – internet censorship”.

Leaders of online news operations across the globe are at Poynter this week, trying to make sense of journalism online. They were asked to write down their questions and concerns and in ten minutes, there were 129 of questions. Here are some of the questions “that generated the most interest in the room” that I found [...]

FeedBurner, a Chicago-based company that provides media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds, has been acquired by Google.

Who said that old people are hopeless with technology and that most wouldn’t know one end of a computer from the other? A recent study conducted by the National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre, Australia, indicates that not only are many elderly Australians Internet savvy, but their uptake of other forms of assistive technology is well and [...]

My Space has been Fox’s. And Last.fm is now CBS’s. Yes, on Wednesday, May 30th, it’s happening again: another Internet acquisitions by traditional media companies. Well, can’t say much about it. Please click here to read the complete story by Richard Jones, a Last.fm staff. And please click here to read the news from Reuters.