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Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category
Five foreign bloggers, started their Blogging Trip in Bali today. The bloggers are from the United States (Mark Tafoya), Australia (Anthony Bianco), Singapore (Mr. Brown), Malaysia (Jeff Ooi) and Philippines (Michael Aquino).The trip will end up with the Pesta Blogger event in Jakarta, on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008. Throughout the trip, they will be expected to [...]
I really envy David Sifry for his new break-through: Offbeat Guides, an on-demand and personalized travel book. A killer idea with a strong business model. Yeah, the user-generated-content idea still rocks! Are you a traveler? This is a really good news for you. When you planning a trip, you don’t need to confuse of finding [...]
Personally, I hope this new model is working. Developed and dedicated for citizen journalism, a new site called Spot.Us is a hub where freelance journalists (”anyone can be a journalist”) can pitch story ideas and readers can create a “story tip” and pitch in money to pay the journalists for their published-stories. So, here is the [...]
Finally, Al Gore, the Nobel Prize and Academy Award-winner, has an official Twitter account — following his fellow Democrat Barack Obama! Al Gore is one of a few persons that I admired most. He played a key role to promote the Internet super-highway in the earlier years of Internet. The former-Vice President of U.S., also an environmentalist, [...]
It’s well known that the US Democratic candidate Barack Obama has pretty familiar with the technology: he has an awesome web presence; a bunch of social networking accounts; offering donations online; using BlackBerry; and so on. No wonder that almost geeks, techpreneurs, academicians, well-educated people and even celebrities love him and really expecting him to be [...]
I told you so, we need blog and blogger –to get another view and fact. Sometimes, the maintream media fails to deliver balance views and clear facts. The recent Bali Bombing (foreign) mainstream media coverages as one of the examples. Please read Spruiked’s piece on idiocy of mainstream media regarding Bali bombers’ execution: Irony, Idiots and [...]
I love to discuss new media issues from its content aspect. Of course, new media is not only about its content, but also about its technology’s infrastructure and medium itself. Wikipedia defines new media is “a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part [...]
