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New media guru, Chris Garret, has written tips for better Skype meetings. Worth a look!

Lewat, lewat, lewat. Ya. Koran atau majalah mana pun lewat jika dibandingkan dengan pemberitaan online pembunuhan pemimpin oposisi Pakistan (dan mantan perdana menteri) Benazir Bhutto beberapa hari lalu. Ya, ya, ya. Beberapa koran memasang infografis seputar kronologi kejadian. Tapi semuanya dull. Coba lihat bagaimana The New York Times mengemas berita heboh ini: sajian multimedia berupa slideshow foto-foto [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]