Articles on Media, Network, Mainstream Media

Iran election protests harness power of Twitter, New Media - Jun 16, 2009

Blogs UPDATE: Twitter has announced that its network maintenance has been rescheduled as its "network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in ... Read story »

Of journalism and abolishing "citizen journalists" - Dec 7, 2009

Blogs The editorial Let's Abolish 'Citizen Journalists' on The Digital Journalist caught my attention, thanks to a tweet from @gangbadoy retweeting the link from @glossmania. While I don't agree with the article ... Read story »

EllaGanda.com blog post sparks online furor over DSWD handling of relief goods - Oct 24, 2009

Blogs For the better part of Friday, the Philippine online community was buzzing over a blog post on EllaGanda.com lamenting the Department of Social Welfare and Development's handling of relief goods donated to ... Read story »

Microblogging keeps Filipino Netizens informed on ConAss in absence of mainstream media - Jun 3, 2009

Blogs As Filipinos saw last night, the true test of digital tools is when they are used by citizens to defend democracy and keep information flowing. Mainstream media was virtually prevented--or perhaps ... Read story »

40 percent of Twitter messages 'pointless babble': study - Aug 20, 2009

Blogs A whopping FORTY percent of messages found in Twitter are pointless bubble.   I am hardly perplexed at such findings by Pear Analytics of Texas, USA. I would be happy if ... Read story »

If you can't beat them... - Jun 15, 2009

Blogs ...join em. And that's what the MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) is going to do, it would seem. According to a news report on the Malaysianinsider.com, the MCA is going into the ... Read story »

Bayan DSL's Lola Techie campaign--brilliant use of social media - Jun 24, 2009

Blogs You know your Web site's hit the mainstream Filipino audience when your lola's (grandma) complaining that you don't poke her back in Facebook. That said, Bayan DSL's latest campaign dubbed Lola ... Read story »

Babelmachine is back, and the Filipino blogosphere keeps growing - Sep 22, 2008

Blogs It's been over a year, but I'm finally back blogging for CNET Asia. A lot has happened since I left, not least of all a major career move when I decided to "go ... Read story »

VivaNews, Indonesia's new online media - Oct 15, 2008

Blogs Indonesia's online media has a new news portal called VivaNews that already launched its beta version yesterday. Owned by Bakrie Group (which was reported as another factor behind the Jakarta market's ... Read story »

Thailand's political unrest takes the fight to the Internet - Apr 14, 2009

Blogs Another year, another uprising. However, it does look like the current administration headed by Abhisit Vejjajiva and his Democrat Party has taken censorship to a new level. It first started with ... Read story »

Mobilizing online communities for your brand - Nov 17, 2008

Blogs Last week, from November 10-14 at 10am to 6pm, our company launched an online project which we believe is something groundbreaking, for the Philippine market, at the very least. Dubbed Reliving LIVE: The ... Read story »

Using social media to promote your product launch - Feb 10, 2009

Blogs Pardon the shameless plug, but my goal is to share as a case study our own experience in using social networks and multimedia to generate buzz and deliver information on the ... Read story »

Bloggers on the campaign trail - May 11, 2007

Blogs With blogging becoming more mainstream, we'll probably see more interaction between bloggers and journalists as they cover events and work hard to bring the news to their respective readers. As I've ... Read story »

The death of news and the future of New New Media - Jul 14, 2006

Blogs No one becomes a journalist because he or she wants to be rich, but the grim reality is that these days news organizations all over the world are fighting for survival. ... Read story »

Has blogging hit the tipping point in India? - Dec 1, 2006

Blogs According to "Blogging India: A Windows Live Report", 14 percent of Indian online users are active bloggers. If number of active Internet users in India is 25 million, then as per ... Read story »

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