… mobile social network anyone? I wonder what her friends list on her mobile phone is like? I wonder what she would do on Twitter? Teen sends 14,500 texts in a month A Californian father was left speechless when he discovered his teenage daughter had sent an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. Do…
Daniela is staying with blogger (and social diagram maker extraordinaire) David Armano. You can read her story here – basically, escaping from an abusive marriage, she is a Romanian immigrant, with 3 children to support, one with Down’s Sydnrome. Daniela cleans house when she can for pennies. David Armano and family are putting the family…
From Alan Mutter’s blog: Newspaper share value fell $64B in ’08 In the worst year in history for publishers, newspaper shares dropped an average of 83.3% in 2008, wiping out $64.5 billion in market value in just 12 months. Although things were tough for all sorts of businesses in the face of the worst economic…
.. so what is a “social media proprietor”? And how is s/he different from a blogger? Dunno, don’t ask me. Google it…. uh oh, we are both in trouble. The only response from Google on “social media proprietor(s)” are MY presentations. So either they don’t exist, have another name or … I’m the first one…
From RintiniWriting Media giant Tribune Co., saddled with billions in debt since it became a privately held company last year, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court this afternoon, becoming the first major newspaper or chain to declare bankruptcy in modern history. (Washington Post) Wall Click for bigger picture. Total print and…
SilkCharm Sachertorte reporting from Second Life, in pajamas & fluffy duck slippers. Lee Hopkins alerted me to this new (to me) term: PajamaHadeen when he was blogging about how he blogs in response to my blog post on how I blog this blog (confuzzled yet?) Pajamahadeen or Pajamahideen is a portmanteau of pajamas and Mujahideen…
Comparing mashup (real/fake footage) videos of the last election to this election. The one that finishes in a week or two. Yep, that one. YouTube was created in February 2005. Three and half years ago. This quick post is about the fact that although we (creators of user generated content) start off amateur and mimicking…
Shutting down of the online IHT and merging it into New York Times made me sad – I read both online and paper versions when based in Jakarta, Singapore, Amsterdam and Milan: In August, ad revenue at the New York Times Media Group, including both the Times and Tribune, dropped 15.1% from the same period…
Following on from my The Coming Tech Bust post: Amid a downturn, another Internet company’s initial offering catches fire Article Abstract: Geocities’ stock price surged in its initial public offering, which also continued investor appetites for Internet company debuts. The virtual community raised its value to $1.1 billion despite its $5 million loss in 1997…