Apple made waves in the tech world when they bridged the gap between the Macbook and iPhone with the iPad. Now, it seems the company wants to bridge another gap – the gap between the iPad and the iPhone – with the iPad Mini. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a slightly smaller iPad. […]
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Television and elections: Is the power still there?
Posted by: mmason11 | October 11, 2012 | No Comment |On Oct. 3, Republican candidate Mitt Romney went head-to-head with incumbent Barack Obama in the first televised debate of the 2012 election. For days after, the internet was humming with chatter over impressions gathered from the debate and predictions for the future. Many believed that Obama had a weak performance and that Romney dominated the […]
When the word “viral” is used today, we tend to think of a popular Youtube video before we think about the kind of infectious contagion that such videos derived this title from. Most of the time, viral videos are exercises in the extreme, whether it’s an extremely cute dog or an extremely annoying music video, […]
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Tags: 95 theses, Johann Gutenburg, Martin Luther, mattmason, printing press, technology, Velocity
Tags: 95 theses, Johann Gutenburg, Martin Luther, mattmason, printing press, technology, Velocity
Impact of technology on journalism part II: the Internet
Posted by: jsharma1 | November 22, 2011 | No Comment |SUPERBLOG The Impact of Technology on Journalism: From Telegraph to Television
Posted by: markherbert | November 22, 2011 | No Comment |The world had long operated under the logical assumption that if you wanted your news to spread, you or someone else had to get themselves out there and spread it yourselves. There was no magic string connecting one town with another by which news, ideas, and trade could be spread. That was ludicrous…
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Tags: History of Journalism, Jay Sharma, Mark Herbert, Rapidity, Steve Klein, Superblog, technology
Tags: History of Journalism, Jay Sharma, Mark Herbert, Rapidity, Steve Klein, Superblog, technology
I just downloaded the WordPress app on my iPhone. I’ll preface this blog by saying I will not be making any corrections to my bad typing other than what autocorrect does by default. With no other way to access theninternet I am left holding onto my phone. This is true stream of consciousness typing. This […]
In 1937, an announcer for WLS Chicago — Herbert Morrison — was in Lakehurst, NJ to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg airship. It had just completed its first year of service and had successfully returned from Europe. American Airlines hired the Hindenburg to shuttle passengers from Lakehurst to Newark for connecting airplane flights. It was when they were trying […]
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Tags: Hindenburg, Marissa Ashkenaz, radio, Sensationalism, technology
Tags: Hindenburg, Marissa Ashkenaz, radio, Sensationalism, technology
Netflix has encountered problems in the recent third quarter as a result of a change in its business model. Similar to the changing face of how we receive and interact with news, Netflix has altered the way we interact with films. When the change from spoken to written to printed news occurred, there was less […]
Having been part of the Twitter world for over a year now, I just recently realized how powerful this social media tool it is. Twitter helped start a revolution in Egypt. A year ago I never would have guessed Twitter would have that much influence in the world. I was just tweeting some stupid comments about […]
The corner newsstand may just become obsolete soon
Posted by: mashkenaz | October 17, 2011 | No Comment |With tablet devices such as the Kindle Fire and the iPad, the magazine and newspaper industry may gain some new legs to stand on. I recently upgraded my iPad to iOS5, Apple’s newest operating system for their mobile products and watched as my newspapers and magazines neatly fit themselves into Newsstand. Apple has made […]
I’ve always been of the philosophy that if you don’t know the answer — don’t admit that you don’t know it! Just Google it! It sounds like cheating and may even seem impractical at times, but for the most part we are always within arms reach of a device that has Googling capabilities. Impress […]
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