New Media Portal

SOUNDS cliche? maybe. But Roy Peter Clark from Poynter back to discussing this issue. Let me quote the interview carried by Italian journalist, Francesca Pacini, who managed an online media and culture magazine Silmarillon. Q: Let’s talk of blog writing. Is the blogger a journalist even if he doesn’t have a “pedigree”? A: Most bloggers are not [...]

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 [...]

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.

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, [...]

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

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:

Ever wanted your Web site recognized as an outstanding use of new media in communications? Why not enter “2007 New Media Awards”?