New Media Portal

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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: