Feb 25

The fol­low­ing is a report of my per­sonal expe­ri­ence with news dis­tri­b­u­tion on social media in 2009. 

My objec­tives of the dis­tri­b­u­tion of news on social media are essen­tially:
- to drive traf­fic to my web­sites;
- to increase my rep­u­ta­tion;
- to mon­e­tise through affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing links in the near future. 

For sev­eral months in 2009 I worked to cre­ate and fur­ther develop my pres­ence on Social… Con­tinue reading

Nov 04

Dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy deliv­ers prod­ucts which should not be com­pul­sory tech­no­log­i­cal prod­ucts but just com­pletely new prod­ucts, break­ing into the scene of new mar­kets, being the turn­ing point of life styles and practices.

Pre­cisely, com­pa­nies engag­ing in dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy, are able to inves­ti­gate these new mar­kets and cap­ture the niche of cus­tomers who are expect­ing and are in need of that dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy. (source: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Chris­tensen, Clay­ton M.).

From that point on, that tech­nol­ogy has great pos­si­bil­i­ties to suc­ceed in the case that the owner com­pany is able to under­stand the laws which rule that tech­nol­ogy and apply them. Con­tinue reading

Nov 04

Open pub­lish­ing sys­tems such as Wikipedia and Indy­media state the suc­cess of het­er­ar­chy which is termed by Axel Bruns in Gate­watch­ing as “Rule by a diverse group, pre­vent­ing the emer­gence of a sin­gle per­son, group in con­trol or every­body (a hier­ar­chy, a monar­chy or a panar­chy). Con­tinue reading

Oct 08

The Reuters Insti­tute for the Study of Jour­nal­ism at the Uni­ver­sity of Oxford, with the sup­port of the BBC Col­lege of Jour­nal­ism launched the work­ing paper by Nic New­man ‘The Rise of Social Media and its Impact on Main­stream Jour­nal­ism’ at Coun­cil Cham­ber, BBC Broad­cast­ing House in Lon­don on 30th of Sep­tem­ber 2009.

Speak­ers and attendees

David Levy, Direc­tor of the Reuters Con­tinue reading

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