Via Aileen’s work blog, I downloaded the Social Media Tracker Wave.3 study by Universal McCann, and after digesting its results, I thought of how this would impact the political landscape come the 2010 elections. Of course, I did have to take the numbers provided in the study with a grain of salt (especially since I [...]
Journalism vs Blogging – time to put Gramps in a museum!
May 7, 2008 By 2 Comments
Again I differ to Marck’s take on this whole blogging-vs-journalism in only one aspect. Marck says: bloggers pose a legitimate threat not only to circulation, but to the very existence of the newspaper and print media I don’t think so. Like the now-defunct myth of the paperless office that the advent of the personal computer [...]
(updated) Zeitgeist: Why Blogging v. Traditional Journalism is More than That
May 6, 2008 By 2 Comments
How do you explain New Media to Old Media? The past couple of days have been about the whole blogging v. traditional journalism bit (well that, and the whole MSFT+YHOO merger break down). Fellow bloggers like @jester1225 in “Confessions of a ‘New Media’ Heretic (or, the jester-in-exile throws yet another gauntlet before the MSM ‘priest [...]
Confessions of a “New Media” Heretic (or, the jester-in-exile throws yet another gauntlet before the MSM “priest caste”)
May 4, 2008 By 9 Comments
Manolo Quezon and I had a rather interesting discussion via Twitter on traditional media outfits vis-a-vis the blogosphere, shortly after I had published my post Storm the Gates. Although we had a few disagreements on specifics (if they can be called disagreements — they seem to me more differences in perspective rather than outright conflict), it seemed to me that we were generally in agreement. One of his messages I agreed with wholeheartedly went:
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