There was a new study released by the MacArthur Foundation revealing that teenagers socializing on the internet is an integral part of their development, and is just not as bad for them as we have previously thought.
The study, started in 2005, had 5000 hours of researchers observing how teenagers interact on sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and other social networking sites.
“It might surprise parents to learn that it is not a waste of time for their teens to hang out online,” said Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine researcher and the report’s lead author. “There are myths about kids spending time…
On Tuesday, National Geographic announced that it will be expanding its business into video games in an effort to reach its younger audience. The magazine hopes to have at four games released by next year.
This news comes at such a morbid time in the world of print media. National Geographic seems to be making moves to reach out to its younger readers. Instead of just watching things deteriorate, the picturesque magazine is putting forth some innovative effort. Who knows what the developers have in store, but I can imagine game plots ranging in anything from escaping the Amazon to leading a…
President-elect Obama has just announced that the weekly address will no longer be shown on television. Instead, the address will air on the radio and be posted immediately on YouTube.
These talks originated with FDR and were called “fireside chats”, and every president since then has done them, either on the radio or on television. Posting them immediately on YouTube will allow a greater audience to hear the remarks, and to respond, as long as they keep the comments turned on. It will also allow for others to reference the speeches easily, in order to spread the message or address a…
Several years ago, a husband and wife team decided to try something new. She was a blogger and knitter, and he was a code monkey (his term, not mine). They realized there was a need for a way for knitters and crocheters to connect, but realized it would be a huge undertaking.
In May of 2006, they opened Ravelry up for beta testing. In essence, you emailed jess and hoped that you would get an invite. It took several months for some of the testers to get their invites, but once they did, it was worth it. Right now, new requests are handled within…
The fine folks at Google have developed a tracker that follows flu trend in your state or area.
They analyze the search terms for any given area and they have created an formula that correlates those terms to the probability that the flu has been found in that area.
How does it work?
We’ve discovered that there is a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Some search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening, and are therefore good indicators of flu activity. Our estimates, based on up-to-date…
Christian Science Monitor announced this week that come 2009, they will switch from a print edition enhanced with an online presence, to a mostly digital format. They plan to offer daily and weekly email editions as well as an enhanced weekly publication, featuring the best of the news of the week as well as photos and special sections.
The 100 year old publication has realized that the transition to the new formats and editions is the way of the future. Print newspapers are struggling to maintain their foothold, and if they don’t embrace the digital age, their futures are bleak.
The cost, delay,…
Although my favorite show is “Ghost Whisperer” (supposedly based on a fellow Northeast Ohio resident http://maryannwinkowski.com/html/home2.html) I find myself to be a bit of a skeptic. Maybe that’s why I love doing online searches for haunted houses–the kitsch factor.
There have been a couple of good blog posts lately from a person who is young and fast-becoming a social media maven and one who is even younger but shows promise as a future public relations industry leader.
Shannon Paul posted on her personal blog about the importance of making sure we are making in-roads for newbies so those of us living online don’t end up talking to ourselves in a vacuum.
And Nick Lucido, whom I can personally vouch for as “intern extraordinaire,” writes about the importance of not just learning by watching others, but actually doing things so you can…
So, this one time, at band camp…photos of you doing a keg stand are taken and end up on Facebook. Not a big deal, until a potential employer checks out your online persona and decides maybe you aren’t cut from the same moral cloth they’d prefer for an employee.
It’s been a concern of college students and even some high-schoolers lately as job providers have realized you can learn a lot about people based on what they, or more likely their friends, have posted about them online.
Now, a 14-year-old in Pinckney, Michigan has gone one step further – actually distributing inappropriate and…
More digital marketing/new media resources for you! The web 2.0 Expo team has been posting the videos and content from the presentations at the September event as the authors are making them available. There is some great content here for your consideration.
Web 2.0 Expo presentation files
