April 2008
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The Sun Chronicle's Social Network
While writing a paper for my sociology class on cybernetworks, I stumbled upon a social network created on Ning by The Sun Chronicle. I never assumed that a small regional newspaper would seek out social networking functionality, but I guess I was wrong. Still though, it makes perfect sense. Newspapers have readers and valuable content. By building a social network around their content, readers...
March 2008
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Facebook vs Regional Newspapers
I recently have been spending a significant amount of time analyzing the relationship between regional newspapers and local merchants. In particular, I have focused on college newspapers that serve the university population. Regional newspapers build readership by providing their customers with reliable and timely information concerning the local community. Newspapers have enjoyed strong demand...
December 2007
2 posts
Duke's Emergency Plan
In light of the tragic Virginia Tech incident, Duke has ramped up its emergency alerting system. By leveraging diverse channels of communication, the university hopes to notify the Duke community when disaster strikes. The old emergency plan relied on the Web, email, and the telephone network. In the 2008 release, Duke will introduce a siren system as well as text message alerts. Text messaging...
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November 2007
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Its the network stupid.
Both TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb claim that old media corporations are suffering from a decline in revenue due to the transition by many small businesses from print to Internet advertising. As a result, several of these old media companies are approaching their 52-week low share price, which may prompt a change in business operations. Furthermore, IBM’s recent report on advertising notes...
Email vs RSS →
There has been an ongoing debate within the blogosphere concerning whether RSS will become the successor to traditional email. Both technologies have had a substantial impact on the Internet, and there is no doubt that RSS will continue to become more visible. However, as a heavy user of both, I find it difficult to draw strong parallelisms between the two entities. Email is most often used as a...
October 2007
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The Art of Communication
Over the years, I have incorporated various methods of communication into my lifestyle with the end goal of finding a single medium to effectively blazon my point of view on popular topics. Most recently, I stumbled upon Tumblr. Now I cannot make any promises, but given the fact that I (like all other human beings) have a vested interest in making my opinion heard, I may just become overtly...