New Media Portal

John Tozzi of BusinessWeek wrote about some wealthy bloggers, who turn their personal obsession into a popular favorite and maybe even a full-time job. You want to be a wealthy blogger you might want to click here to read the full story. As for me, I’m just glad to watch :)

John Hamer of Washington News Council wrote an interesting column titled Tommorrow’s “newsroom”. He told us about his visit to a couple of “old” journalists at a conference on “new journalism”. There, they talked about the future of journalism, and also about blogger. “Like many mainstream or “legacy” journalists”, Hamer wrote, “Kilpatrick is skeptical of bloggers.” Please [...]

Here we go again. New media vs. old media. Threat or no threat? Recently, Credit Suisse Research says it’s not. I think I’ll just see the rest of the debate.

Some of you might have known this but Kronologis.com, a microblogging service, is now known as Kronologger.com So sorry for this late post from me :( Link: Kronologger.com

Reporters sans frontières has something for you bloggers and cyber-dissidents. This handbook is made to help you with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship. It is available in 5 languages. Please click here to go to RSF’s page and download the handbook.

From Scotsman.com : BBC dominance of Britain’s radio waves will face increased competition after media regulator Ofcom awarded a consortium led by Channel 4 the second digital radio multiplex. The consortium plans to launch ten new digital stations aimed at listeners from a variety of groups including women, Asians and children. It will also offer a podcast [...]

MediaChannel.org has put together the package below to highlight some of the issues discussed during the OhMyNews 2007 International Reporters’ forum. You might want to check them out. OhourNews Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, [...]

James Massola from New Matilda decided to join a social networking service Facebook to find out what one actually does with it. Starting from the first registration page, he was asked for his full name, email address and the usual password and birth date questions. After confirming his decision to join the site, he was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]