Media are abuzz with AOL’s latest acquisitions. With this, the story now turns local. I guess that’s what Tim Armstrong will hear from his Indian colleagues next week.Corporate culture has this uncanny ability to make people think in the general direction the bosses are thinking about. And with Patch and Going in AOL’s kitty, the [...]
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Archive for the ‘Online Journalism’ CategoryThe 21st Century India Through Digital Content conference recently held in Delhi, with topic such as Digital Content in Business, Enterprise and Livelihoods should have been infested with journalists. It wasn’t. Except for a smattering of our ilk, there was not one from the power-list of Indian journalism. It really should be an area that should [...] Steve Yelvington’s got it right:  Read the full post here… Althougth the Reuters report doesn’t mention India, the PwC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook must have something about the subcontinent. But the fact that the boom being predicted is based on the increasing use of “high-speed connections and social networking and entertainment sites” should come as an indicator that social networking is here to stay. We [...] Thomas K. Thomas’ report on TRAI’s recommendations is alarming, given India’s aim to improve connectivity. The recommendations, which form the basis for a policy being considered This is probably a long shot for us in India but surely an indicator of things to come: Retired naval officer Joe Sestak out-raised incumbent Republican Curt Weldon to seize a House seat in suburban Philadelphia — aided by nearly $900,000 in Internet contributions. “Netroots” activists helped propel Virginia’s incoming Democratic Sen. Jim Webb in the [...] Happened across an Online Journalists Association’s site. It is a neat site. The organisation is headed by a Rajesh Kalra. Googled him but got a whole lot of links. I couldn’t quite figure out which Kalra is the online journalist. But I’m happy somebody’s finally done it. All the best folks! indiagoes is a new generation news service that aggregates and delivers Indian news flawlessly. That’s their claim but it looks like they’ve got a good thing going here. They’ve got a blog at: http://blog.indiagoes.com/ Broadband Grew 33 Percent Years’ Time This is a OECD report. Nevertheless, this reflects the trend.technorati tags:broadband, internet, DSL, OECD PIB commences webstreaming, to upload rare photographs on its website This news could ordinarily be considered mundane stuff. But wait a minute, don’t you sense that this gives you a feeling that the Web is becoming inevitable? Somehow this news made me feel so. Trai order on termination charges for roaming calls TRAI insists that operators stick to the Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) regulation. October 11 is the deadline for compliance. technorati tags:telecom, trai, mobiles, cell, regulations ET: Microsoft unveils updated search engine Windows Live Search technorati tags:search, microsoft, google Please visit: http://124.7.147.238:8080/ There is live chat on at: http://www.ircatwork.com/cgi-bin/irc/irc.cgi Pro-Israel lobby targets BBC online poll ‘Megaphone’ lobbyware mobilisationBBC History Magazine was forced to remove an online poll after it was targeted by a project aimed at influencing internet opinion in Israel’s favour.… One has to rue the woefully inadequate debate on media policy in India. There aught to be serious effort at organise public opinion on issue such as the Broadcast Bill. Statements have been made that all “stakeholders” will be consulted. But the public doesn’t seem to figure in the list. Here’s a link to a good [...] Star, Nimbus ink sporty deal To launch cricket-centric sports channel, NEO Sports, by year end. It make big news when Nimbus got the cricket telecast rights. Next , Murdoch buying a stake in Nimbus was hot too. But Nimbus joining Star to launch a cricket-centric channel. Man, that’s boring. technorati tags:cricket, broadcast, nimbus, star, murdoch, [...] Reliance shelves foray into TV news The Reliance group has junked its plans to get into television news business. This Business Standard report did surprise me. Reliance thinking about getting into the news business? Well media policy will come of age soon. It should, PLEASE. technorati tags:television, reliance, ambanis, media, policy, ownership Business Line : Desktop sales may cross 56 lakh units: MAIT Desktop sales in fiscal 2006-07 are expected to cross 56 lakh units, according to a report by Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT), an industry body. Desktops and laptops taken together crossed 12 lakh units for the quarter April-June of FY2006-07. But another important [...] Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we’re now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase. Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm | The Register technorati tags:internet, technology, bubble, web2.0 This one’s for posterity. In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News has set up a wiki. Wired’s got a Ryan Singel to get things going. technorati tags:wiki, online, journalism Television Eighteen India Ltd is emerging as a serious player in the Indian internet space. This “new” media group has its internet properties under Web18. Exchange4media reports that Web18 has acquired Cricketnext.com and Compareindia.com. The group boast of news website such as IBNLive.com, which should make it a serious contender as a vertical portal what [...] The vast majority of the urban educated in India have a fair knowledge of English. Therefore, when Wikipedia lists 13,23,383 articles written in English, some of those can claim to have authorship from India. Netscape versus Digg Blogosphere Doubles Every Six Months Way back in April, Technorati founder and CEO David Sifry in his musings said that his company thinks that 75,000 new Weblogs are created each day. Reporting Sifry’s musings Clickz.com says that “Daily, the blogosphere averages 1.2 million legitimate posts per day, or about 50,000 postings per hour.” “India is under attack from rogue elements within and outside the country, not only in its physical space (think Mumbai), but in cyberspace too. Extensions “.co.in†and “.gov.in†are special targets of hack-attacks, whose number, and intensity, is increasing at a worrying pace,” reads a report from Vandana Gombar in the Business Standard today. CERT-In [...] The filtered coverage of Israel’s attack on Lebanon comes unstuck as people reach the Internet to get what’s really happening out there. Videos on Web widen lens on Mideast conflict “In a matter of weeks, YouTube has become a video Dumpster for a global audience to share first-hand reports, military strategies, propaganda videos and personal commentary about [...] Though the market cap is not a huge figure the company is in for some good times given the fact that its political fortune is currently shining brightly, and may do so for a few years more. Sun TV PAT jumps 70% in FY 06 Sun TV Ltd on Thursday reported a 69.65 per cent increase in [...] Vijayanand Printers (VPL), with Vijay Times with 10 editions and two Kannada newspapers Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran, are now firmly in the Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL) stable. BCCL with the acquisition enters the fast-growing regional media market. Apparently “readers, advertisers, employees and business associates have all played a vital role in building these brands.” [...] A disturbing part about the Mumbai terrorist attack was the “collapse” or jamming of the cellphone service. According to the Business Standard: “Net becomes the saviour as cell phones go blank“. The report says: “The clogging of telephone networks — both mobile and landline — during the hours of crisis in Mumbai led to an [...] According to a report in the Business Standard: “Yahoo and MSN Instant Messaging (IM) users from India and 14 other countries will be able to invite and chat with each other beginning today.” Good news! A Business Line story leads thus: “The global entertainment and media (E&M) industry is expected to grow at a 6.6 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) to $1.8 trillion in 2010, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2006 – 2010, released last week.” The expansion of broadband households is to spur the [...] This is something very inspiring. K.T. Jagannathan’s report in the business page of The Hindu say that Cognizant Technology Solutions has formed a digital media centre of excellence. High sounding, but it means the company will focus on developing tools for the new media market. I guess you can’t expect these to be available in the [...] Ever since I read the story of Prabhat Khabar by Harivansh in Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications, I’ve been keen to follow the Jharkhand paper’s success story. But visiting its website was a disappointment. You are welcomed by an atrocious homepage – a flash page, “please enter”. Today exchange4media reports that Prabhat Khabar has launched an [...] The upgraded Digg.com, due out on Monday, threatens to further disrupt a professional news industry already reeling from the fragmentation of mass-market audiences, the rise of self-published blogs and rapid changes that have reshaped the advertising markets on which publishers have long depended. read more | digg story Trust Andy Carvin to bring up something new and interesting each time he writes: Students Expose Sex Offender Through Wikipedia Research. This is Andy’s post on January 18 but it is still worth recording for posterity at IOJ. Listen to some biggies say what they think blogs are. Counts Media sounds like a company that’s doing some fabulous stuff. It claims that it’s expertise lies in “innovative theatrical experiences, interactive urban art, and the application of emerging technology to entertainment”. I’m sure whatever product comes out the crucible will be of relevance to the world of online journalism as well. A company, Email Data Source Inc’s business it to “analyze, organize, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages” and, of course, make money by doing that. The January 24 newsletter by Frank Barnako has two noteworthy titbits on online journalism: LATimes is to move members of its online team “to take seats in regular newsroom departmentsâ€. Now that is nothing novel, and, indeed, such moves can only make sense with a rethink about the entire news process, which obviously means that [...] Google’s being demonished for sometime now. This is, of course, a terrible way to start writing. Stating the obvious is simple not good. But when Spiegel Online writes an editorial piece on Google we need to take note, that’s all. Have you tried Google Base? Gary Price has a post on it at Search Engine Watch. IOJ has existed for more than five years now. 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