Arsip: Internet
Wikipedia for propaganda
NOT quite a new modus, but it’s getting worse and worse. A threat to open global information service? Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the [...]— Firman Firdaus • September 12th, 2007
Billboard Hot 100 into AOL Music and Yahoo!
THE world’s most comprehensive music resource, Billboard, has released its legendary Hot 100 into digital format. Billboard announced an expansion of its Hot 100 formula to include weekly streamed and on-demand music data to the chart’s traditional mix of sales and radio airplay. Keeping pace with the growth of digital delivery, Billboard’s franchise chart will [...]— Firman Firdaus • August 13th, 2007
Top 30 News Website
E&P, via Nielsen//Net Ratings recently ranked news website. The judgement mainly based on unique audiences and highest time spent per person. For a brief report, please visit the E&P site. For me, to read about ranking is always fascinating. But one thing from the list: how come cnn.com, bbcnews.com, or christian science monitor not even mentioned?— Firman Firdaus • July 12th, 2007
Blogger vs. journalist
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 [...]— Firman Firdaus • July 10th, 2007
BBC faces new radio challenge
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 [...]— ikram • July 7th, 2007
OhMyNews Forum Recap
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, [...]— ikram • July 7th, 2007
It’s Not That Private
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 [...]— ikram • July 6th, 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
Grandpa Is Surfing the Internet, Too
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 [...]— ikram • June 1st, 2007
2007 New Media Awards
Ever wanted your Web site recognized as an outstanding use of new media in communications? Why not enter “2007 New Media Awards”?— ikram • May 31st, 2007
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