| SERVICES, TECH &Â SOCIAL - “15 Years of Wired: A Look Back.” Wired, Jan. 1, 2008. (The magazine was started in 1993 and the Web site in 1994.)
- “Iowa Caucuses Blanketed by Twitter, Blogs, Video.” Mark Glaser, MediaShift, Jan. 3, 2008.
- “Consumer Electronics Show 2008.” PC Magazine, Jan. 6, 2008. (See also: “Bill Gates Keynote.” Microsoft, Jan. 6. 2008.) (Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975.)
- “Campaign Coverage for the Digerati.” 2008 Technology Voters’ Guide. News.com Special Coverage.
- The White House begins its first blog. Jan. 2008. (See also: Jan. 16 post from President George W. Bush.) (The White House Web site started in 1994.)
- MacWorld Keynote by Steve Jobs, Apple, Jan. 15, 2008. (Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduced their first computer in 1976.)
- “Launching EveryBlock.” (Interview with Adrian Holovaty) Al Tompkins, Jan. 23, 2008. (See also: “In memory of chicagocrime.org.” Adrian Holovaty.com, January 31, 2008.)
- “Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion.” Ari Levy and Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, Feb. 1, 2008. (See also: “Microsoft’s $44.6 Billion Offer to Yahoo.” CNBC.com, Feb. 1, 2008.) (David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo in 1994.)
- “Feb 5, 2008: the day Super Tuesday became the ‘Mashup Election’.” Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Feb. 6, 2008. (Radio was the new wireless technology in the 1924 presidential election.)
- “A Heartfelt, YouTube-Based Wake for Polaroid Instant Photography.” PC World, Feb. 8, 2008.
- “The Coming Ad Revolution.” Esther Dyson, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2008. (Dyson was the founding chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in 1998.)
- “Online Tributes Memorialize Northern Illinois University Shooting Victims.” Jenna Wortham, Underwire, Feb. 15, 2008.
- “HD DVD: Just another brick in the wall of defunct formats.” Steve Guttenberg, C/Net Audiophiliac, Feb. 19, 2008.
- “Twitter.” Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, Feb. 25, 2008. (The Twitter microblogging service was founded in 2006.)
- “Electric Minds — the future of the Web (circa 1996).” Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs, March 17, 2008.
- “Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot.” David Pogue, The New York Times, March 20, 2008. (Pure Digital Technologies released an early version of the Flip Video camera in 2006.)
- “2008 is the year of gaming.”
Don Reisinger, CNET News, April 15, 2008. - “Web 2.0 debates internet’s future.” Maggie Shiels, BBC News, April 26, 2008.
- “Craig (of the List) Looks Beyond the Web.” Noam Cohen, The New York Times, May 12, 2008.
- “China’s Earthquake: The Twitter Story.” Fons Tuinstra, E-Media Tidbits, May 12, 2008.
- “Knight News Challenge 2008 Winners.” May 14, 2008.
- “Spielberg pops up on Seesmic.” Jemima Kiss, PDA: The Digital Content Blog, May 17, 2008. (Loic Le Meur founded the Seesmic video discussion site in 2007.)
- “News unfiltered: YouTube embraces citizen journalism.” David Chartier, ars technica, May 20, 2008.
- “D: All Things Digital” Media and Technology Conference. Hosted by The Wall Street Journal‘s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. May 27-29, 2008.
- “Who Will Rule The New Internet?” Josh Quittner, Time Magazine, June 4, 2008.
- “How new media affected Clinton campaign.” Joe Garofili, San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2008.
- “Will you read Microsoft’s obit here?” Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 9, 2008.
- “Tech’s 15 turning points.” Neil McAllister, InfoWorld, June 10, 2008.
- “Will 3G iPhone Help Push Geo-Based News?” Paul Lamb, Idea Lab, June 10, 2008.
- “The Web Time Forgot.” Alex Wright, The New York Times, June 17, 2008.
- “From ARPANET to Blogging.” The Newseum’s Paul Sparrow gives a brief history of the Internet. (Video posted on the Newseum’s Web site.)
- “How the Web Was Won: An Oral History of the Internet.” By Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb, Jul. 2008.
- “Mobile Web Reaches Critical Mass.” BBC News, July 10, 2008.
- On July 11, 2008 Apple’s iTunes App Store opens with 500 third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. By the end of 2009 there will be more than 100,000 applications available. The New York Times and Associated Press are two of the first iPhone news applications launched.
- “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr, Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008.
- “Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?” By Daniel J. Solove, Scientific American, August 2008.
- “Dems’ Convention will be Online Media’s Party.” By Richard Siklos, Fortune, August 22, 2008.
- “Facebook Hits 100 Million Users.” By Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb, August 25, 2008.
- “The Best 2008 Political Convention Coverage Online.” By Mark Glaser, MediaShift, August 28, 2008.
- “Palin’s Wikipedia Entry Gets Overhaul.” By Yuki Noguchi, NPR, August 29, 2008.
- “Chrome: It’s not a browser, it’s the first web OS.” By Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Sep. 2, 2008.
- “Tag Clouding the RNC.” By Al Tompkins, Al’s Morning Meeting, Sep. 4, 2008. (See also: Video about building a Tag Cloud.)
- “Google: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!” By Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine, Sep. 7, 2008. In September 1998 the Google company opened its office in Menlo Park, California. Google.com was still in beta. (See also: Google Milestones and Google 10th Birthday.)
- “Blog History 101: Scott Rosenberg Traces the Blogosphere’s Origins.” By Simon Owens, MediaShift, Sep. 22, 2008.
- “RNC 08 Report Preserving Tweets for History’s Sake.” By Maryn McKenna, E-Media Tidbits, Oct. 15, 2008.
- Web 2.0 Summit 2008. Nov. 5-7, 2008.
- “Barack Obama’s use of social media.” By JD Lasica, Social Media, Nov. 15, 2008.
- “The mouse hits 40-year milestone.” By Mark Ward, BBC News, Dec. 9, 2008.
- “YouTube Video: The Web in 2008.” By Orli Yakuel, Dec. 29, 2008.
- In 2008 there are 133 million blogs. In 2000 there were fewer than 100,000. (Source: Forbes)
- 46% of Americans have used the Internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the presidential campaign, share their views and mobilize others. Barack Obama’s backers have an edge in the online political environment. 35% say they have watched online political video. 10% have used social networking sites to gather information or become involved and 6% have made political contributions online. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)
- In 2008 there are 270.3 million U.S. mobile phone users, or 87% of the U.S. population. In 2000 there were 109.5 million users. Mobile phone users send an average of more than 2.5 billion text messages per day. 63.2 million people access the Internet through mobile devices. (Source: NAA)
- Pew Reports
“Increased use of video-sharing sites.” Jan. 9, 2008.
“A Portrait of Early Adopters.” Feb. 21, 2008.
“Mobile Access to Data and Information.” March 5, 2008.
“Writing, Technology and Teens.” April 24, 2008.
“The Internet and the 2008 Election.” June 15, 2008.
“Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources.” August 17, 2008.
“Podcast Downloading 2008.” August 28, 2008.
“Networked Workers.”
Sept. 24, 2008.
“Networked Families.”
Oct. 19, 2008.
“When Technology Fails.”
Nov. 16, 2008.
“Obama’s Online Opportunities.”
Dec. 4, 2008.
“The Internet’s Role in Campaign 2008.”
Apr. 15, 2009
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“After a decade of high hopes, there are increasing concerns about the Web’s ability to meet the news industry’s financial challenges.” (Source: “ The State of the News Media: Online Section.” Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2008.) -
The presidential campaign is covered by blogs, Twitter, Facebook, mashup projects and new political journalism sites such as PolitiFact. In 2009 PolitiFact will be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its fact-checking initiative during the campaign. - ABC News and Facebook sponsor the Republican and Democratic New Hampshire presidential primary debates on Jan. 5, 2008.
- “Introducing… the new nightly.msnbc.com.” Brian Williams introduces the redesigned NBC Nightly News Web site on Jan. 9, 2008. (NBC created their first Web site in 1995.)
- ‘Getting Smart About News Podcasts.’ Amy Gahran, Contentious.com, Jan. 23, 2008.
- “Anatomy of a local breaking
news story.” (Las Vegas Sun online coverage of the Monte Carlo hotel fire) Rob Curley, Jan. 26, 2008. - CBS News anchor Katie Couric introduces a new CBS YouTube channel. Posted on YouTube, Feb. 1, 2008.
- “Facebook: The rival to
newswire services everywhere?” Helen Walters, Next/BusinessWeek.com, Feb. 6, 2008. (Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004.) - “Newspaper Next 2.0 — Making the Leap Beyond Newspaper Companies.” American Press Institute, Feb. 2008.
- The Tribune, Gannett, Hearst and New York Times companies announce the creation of the quadrantONE online ad network on Feb. 15, 2008. (In 1995 a consortium of newspaper companies called the New Century Network was formed. It closed in 1998.)
- “We Media/Zogby Interactive poll.” “…the online survey documented the shift away from traditional sources of news, such as newspapers and TV, to the Internet.” Feb. 27, 2008.
- “Wikipedia in the Newsroom.” Donna Shaw, AJR, Feb./Mar. 2008. (Wikipedia formally began in 2001.)
- “Dusting Off the Archive for the Web.” Richard Perez-Pena, The New York Times, March 17, 2008.
- “Out of Print: The Death and Life of the American Newspaper.” Eric Alterman, The New Yorker, March 31, 2008.
- “Google Earth, New York Times Team Up.” Leslie Rule, Idea Lab, April 13, 2008.
- In May 2008 online maps, pictures and videos tell the story of the massive search and rescue under way in south-western China after one of the most powerful earthquakes in decades.
- “CBS Corporation to Acquire CNET.” CBS, May 15, 2008.
- “The Newspapers: Rating The Top 25 Newspaper Websites.” Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St, June 3, 2008.
- The first report of NBC News journalist Tim Russert’s death was posted on Wikipedia rather than by the NBC network, which had held the story until all of Russert’s family had been contacted. (See also: “Sad News About Tim Russert Broken By Wikipedia?” Jon Fine, BusinessWeek, June 13, 2008 and NBC/MSNBC coverage about Tim Russert)
- “Murky Boundaries: What are the guidelines for the personal blogs of journalists who work for mainstream news organizations?” Kevin Rector, AJR, June/July 2008.
- “Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million.” Kara Swisher, All Things Digital, July 11, 2008.
- “Some thoughts on the Twitter/iPhone reporting experiment.” Etan Horowitz, OrlandoSentinel.com, July 14, 2008.
- “Moving to Mobile.” NAA, July 2008.
- In August 2008 McClatchy’s Real Cities network of 1,800 local affiliate Web sites is sold to the Centro company. The Real Cities network started with 32 Internet sites when it was founded by Knight Ridder in 1997.
- “TV Networks Rewrite the Definition of a News Bureau.” Brian Stelter, The New York Times, August 12, 2008.
- “Politics and the New Media.” Nieman Reports, Summer 2008.
- “Charlie Gibson On Familiar Territory and New Ground.” By Gail Shister, TVNewser, August 26, 2008.
- “Handheld Headlines: News organizations are embracing content aimed at cell phones and other mobile devices as part of their survival strategy in the digital age.” Arielle Emmett, AJR, Aug./Sep. 2008.
- Google announces an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of microfilmed news archives. (See also: “Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time.” By Punit Soni, Official Google Blog and “Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead.” By Stephen Shankland, CNET News, Sep. 8, 2008.)
- Social and traditional media begin spending more time discussing and reporting on the economy once Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15th. The Great Recession, or the downturn that began in December 2007, is a defining moment in the media’s financial transformation.
- “A No-Paper Newspaper.” By Daniel McGinn, Newsweek, Sep. 15, 2008.
- “Train Crash Leads LA Times to Create Django Database on Deadline.” By Chip Scanlan, Chip on Your Shoulder, Sep. 18, 2008.
- “Newspapers’ Web Revenue Is Stalling.” By Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2008.
- “Blogging journalists: survey results pt.1: context and methodology.” By Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Oct. 14, 2008.
- Video: “The Future of Journalism” Panel Discussion.
Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 6, 2008. (See also: “Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy.” CSM, Oct. 28, 2008.) - “Election Day Homepage Highlights.” By Howard Finberg, Poynter Online, Nov. 5, 2008.
- Traditional media turn to social networking services such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter in November 2008 to find firsthand reports during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
- “Breaking News Online: A Short History and Timeline.” By Mindy McAdams, Teaching Online Journalism, Nov. 29, 2008.
- In December 2008 the Bivings Group releases a report that says that of America’s top 100 newspapers, 58% published user-generated photos, while 18% accepted video and 15% articles. In 2007 only 24% of newspapers enabled some form of user-generated content. The report also says that integration with social bookmarking sites like Digg and delicious has been increasing dramatically. 92% of newspapers now include this option compared to only 7% in 2006.
- “Pulitzer Prizes Broadened to Include Online-Only Publications.” Pulitzer.org, Dec. 8, 2008. (See also: “Pulitzers Open to Online-Only Entrants — But Who Qualifies?” By Simon Owens, MediaShift, Dec. 12, 2008.
- “Following Blagojevich Arrest on Twitter, News Sites.” By Ellyn Angelotti, Poynter Online, Dec. 9, 2008.
- “Online news is immediate and exciting.” By Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press, Dec. 17, 2008.
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