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D. Xavier Medina Vidal has just completed a dissertation at University of California at Riverside titled Voces del Capitolio: Spanish-Language Media in the Statehouse. It is a fascinating look at Spanish language media, political communication and electoral politics. Highlights from the findings include: Spanish-language media in the United States play a critical role in shaping perceptions of public opinion among Latino voters and public officials of every ethnicity across the country. They also play a far greater advocacy role for the communities they serve than do their English-language counterparts. They also keep their readers informed about how the political system works and cover issues that are important to their readers that English-language media are not covering. They also have a better sense of Latino public opinion and help shape public policy on issues that are important to Latinos.
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The unpalatable truth is scalability online doesn’t require journalism any more. Social media websites built vast scalability rapidly, and are now increasingly profitable, without journalism. Yes, journalism built scalability on the Web, but without profitability, because journalism no longer matters to the economics of publishing to the Web. That’s the other thing everybody hates to acknowledge.
10:14 pm November 23, 2011
Free news, paywalls and the slow death of media - Rupert Murdoch, pricing, online news, newspapers, News Corp. - CIO (via mediafuturist)

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Alex Leo: News Technology Tweeters: Help
1:16 pm November 6, 2011

alexleo:

I spoke at an event for college student interested in media today and they asked me who they should follow on Twitter to stay informed about news technology. Here’s my list, who am I missing? (I always leave really obvious people off lists so any advice would be appreciated.)

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smarterplanet:  PhoneGap 1.0 Launches Today | ReadWriteWeb PhoneGap, the open source mobile developement framework that allows mobile developers build apps using Web standards, is launching today into version 1.0. This is a milestone release for the platform, which now adds additional APIs, features and improvements in its newly updated product.
6:12 pm July 29, 2011

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 PhoneGap 1.0 Launches Today | ReadWriteWeb

PhoneGap, the open source mobile developement framework that allows mobile developers build apps using Web standards, is launching today into version 1.0. This is a milestone release for the platform, which now adds additional APIs, features and improvements in its newly updated product.

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Lauren McCullough: Breaking News: A New Opportunity
3:39 pm July 18, 2011

lfmccullough:

Sharing some personal news:

I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the Breaking News team at MSNBC.com. Breaking News is at the forefront of digital journalism, using social media and the crowd to curate and share real-time information.

Tom Brew, Cory Bergman and …

emergentfutures: LinkedIn becomes second largest social network in US Paul Higgins: While we may quibble at the edges about whether the number of visitors defines the size of a social network this is certainly strong development. I am certainly using LinkedIn more as a social network and they are getting much better at identifying and showing me connections in a non pushy way. LinkedIn leapfrogged Myspace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, tracking firm comScore reported. LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique US visitors in June compared with 33.5 million for Myspace, which was sold last week by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Twitter was next with 30.6 million unique US visitors in June, comScore said. Facebook was the runaway leader with 160.9 million unique US visitors during the month, according to comScore. Full Story NZ Herald Thanks to @nzchook  aka Mark Fowler for the link
10:34 pm July 11, 2011

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LinkedIn becomes second largest social network in US

Paul Higgins: While we may quibble at the edges about whether the number of visitors defines the size of a social network this is certainly strong development. I am certainly using LinkedIn more as a social network and they are getting much better at identifying and showing me connections in a non pushy way.

LinkedIn leapfrogged Myspace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, tracking firm comScore reported.

LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique US visitors in June compared with 33.5 million for Myspace, which was sold last week by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Twitter was next with 30.6 million unique US visitors in June, comScore said.

Facebook was the runaway leader with 160.9 million unique US visitors during the month, according to comScore.

Full Story NZ Herald

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And today social media curation crosses another key threshold: market leading curation and publishing tool Storify now supports Dave Winer’s original protocol for publishing content to blogs. Storify will now use XML-RPC to push permanent, search engine-friendly HTML along with dynamic Javascript to blogs built on WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Tumblr, Posterous and Drupal. Social media curation has grown up and is becoming a first class citizen of the open Web, just like blogging.
12:30 am July 9, 2011
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MIT’s recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won’t depend on any single CIO or federal program. It will be driven by a distributed community of media, nonprofits, academics and civic advocates focused on better outcomes, more informed communities and the new news, whatever form it is delivered in
1:20 pm July 5, 2011
Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack - O’Reilly Radar
futurejournalismproject: Facebook Vs. Google: Oh It’s On! Via VizWorld.
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Facebook Vs. Google: Oh It’s On!

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