| SERVICES, TECH & SOCIAL - “Websites ‘must be saved for history‘.” By David Smith, The Observer, Jan. 25, 2009. (See also: “History of the Internet (Video).” Vimeo.)
- “Five years of Facebook: How it redefined what we consider ‘news‘.” By Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, Feb. 4, 2009.
- “How Tweet It Is.” By Will Leitch, New York Magazine, Feb. 8, 2009.
- The Foursquare location-based social networking Web site is founded. (See also: “Foursquare Seeks to Turn Nightlife Into a Game.” Jenna Wortham, New York Times, Mar. 13, 2009.)
- “The next Web of open, linked data: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com (Video).” Mar. 13, 2009.
- “Woven deep into our lives: World Wide Web at 20 holds sway over most business, communications.” By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, Mar. 13, 2009. (See also: “Memorable moments in the history of the World Wide Web.”)
- “World Wide Web @ 20 (Video).” Cern, Mar. 2009.
- “In the Beginning: Top Ten Apple Moments.” Time Magazine, Spring 2009.
- “The Twitter Explosion.” By Paul Farhi, AJR, Apr./May 2009.
- “The end of blogging:
The way we communicate is changing at a breakneck pace. And don’t expect it to slow down.” By Andy Serwer, Fortune, May 20, 2009. - “Documentary about Web Collaboration.” (Video) By Dave Cohn. DigiDave. May 17, 2009.
- “The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009.” Webdesigner Depot, May 22, 2009.
- “50 Best Websites 2009.” Time Magazine. 2009.
- On June 1, 2009 Microsoft releases its Bing Web search engine.
- “Say Everything Video: Who was the First Blogger?” Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard, Jun. 1, 2009.
- “A Brief History Of Social Media.” By Brett Borders, Jun. 2, 2009. (Video Posted on YouTube)
- “Internet Nears its 40th Anniversary.” By Anick Jesdanun, AP/Buffalo News, Aug. 31, 2009.
- 19% of Internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)
- “Barnes & Noble Launches the ‘Nook’ E-Reader.” By Dan Costa, PC Magazine, Oct. 21, 2009.
- “Windows 7 born from Vista’s frustrations.” By Ina Fried, CNET News, Oct. 22, 2009.
- “Social Search from Google and Bing: My 8 Big Concerns.” By Jared Newman, PC World, Oct. 22, 2009.
- “The Internet at 40.” Guardian.co.uk, October 23, 2009.
- “Is Today the Internet’s 40th Birthday?” By Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News, Oct. 29, 2009.
- “Happy 40th Birthday, the Internet: 20 Milestones in the Net’s Development.” By Tom Chivers and Ian Douglas, Telegraph.co.uk, Oct. 29, 2009.
- “40 Years Later, Looking Back At The Internet’s Birth (Audio).” By Guy Raz, NPR, Nov. 1, 2009.
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- “Did Web 1.0 begin dying in September 2008?”
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Nov. 21, 2009. - “Ten Predictions For The E-Reader/E-Book Market In 2010.” By Sarah Rotman Epps and James McQuivey, PaidContent, Dec. 1, 2009. (See also: “Time Inc. Tries To Get Ahead Of The Color E-Reader Curve.” By Staci Kramer, PaidContent.)
- Video: Sports Illustrated Tablet Demo Posted on Vimeo, Dec. 2, 2009.
- “15 Gadgets That Changed Everything This Decade.” Jay Yarow, Business Insider, Dec. 9. 2009.
- “2010: The Year of the Tablet.” By Nick Bilton, Dec. 23, 2009.
- “Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas.” By Henry Blodget, The Business Insider, Dec. 26, 2009.
- “The Decade In Data.” By Oliver J. Chiang, Forbes, Dec. 28, 2009.
- “Statistics on Computer and Internet Use.” U.S. Census Bureau, 2009.
- Pew Reports “Twitter and status updating.” Feb. 12, 2009.
“The Mobile Difference.” Mar. 25, 2009.
“Online Classifieds.” May 22, 2009.
“The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster.” Jun. 15, 2009.
“Home Broadband Adoption 2009.” Jun. 17, 2009.
“Wireless Internet Use.” Jul. 22, 2009.
“The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up.” Jul. 29, 2009.
“Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back.” Aug. 19, 2009.
“Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009.” Oct. 21, 2009. | | THE MEDIA -
“…The economic model largely responsible for financing journalism in the old media, advertising, will not do so in the new. Online advertising over all began to slow down…” (Source: “ The State of the News Media: Online Section.” Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2009.) -
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Using Twitter and his iPhone, Janis Krums posts one of the first photos of the U.S. Airways plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River. His Twitter message said: “There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” (See also: “ Twitter User Becomes Star in US Airways Crash.” By Lauren Johnston and Matt Marrone, New York Daily News, Jan. 16, 2009.) -
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“No one experiment is going to replace what we are now losing with the demise of news on paper, but over time, the collection of new experiments that do work might give us the journalism we need.” (Source: “ Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” By Clay Shirky, Mar. 13, 2009.) -
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On March 27, 2009 the Christian Science Monitor prints its last daily print edition. The newspaper will now focus on its online site. - On April 20, 2009 the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting is
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By June 12, 2009 federal law required that all full-power television broadcast stations stop broadcasting in analog format and broadcast only in digital format. -
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In late June 2009 the “Neda” YouTube video of a young woman protester dying on the streets of Tehran spreads quickly among social networks and traditional news organizations. User-generated crisis reporting is becoming more common, and with it, more challenges for traditional media outlets on how to present it. -
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- “How Early Newspaper-to-Web Technology Crippled News Industry’s Thinking.” By Amy Gahran. E-Media Tidbits, Jul. 23, 2009.
- “The Newspaper-Web War.” By Jack Shafer. Slate. Aug. 3, 2009.
- “Google Releases News-Reading Service.”
By Miguel Helft, New York Times, Sep. 14, 2009. - “70 Percent of Journalists Use Social Networks to Assist in Reporting.” By Jeremy Porter, Journalistics, Sep. 24, 2009.
- “Let’s Talk: Journalism and Social Media.” Nieman Reports, Fall 2009.
- “Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World?” By Andrew Alexander. Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2009.
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