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Apple Sells 1 Million iPhone 3GS’s In 3 Days; A Revolution In Web Video Is Coming

Jun 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Microblogging, Video, Video Software, Vlogs

Apple today announced that it sold over one million iPhone 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” The new iPhone 3GS […]



Are Twitter Users Anti-Social?

Jun 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: General, Microblogging

Are Twitter users anti-social? Last week, Internet marketing blog HubSpot released their second State of the Twittersphere report (pdf). According to HubSpot’s report: 79.79% Twitter users fail to provide a homepage URL 75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile 68.68% have not specified a location 55.50% are not following anyone 54.88% […]



Buying A Book For The Kindle Is Digital Russian Roulette

Jun 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Story, General, iPhone

The Amazon Kindle may be a failure as a new media platform, but it’s great for reading books, right?

Maybe not.

Based on the experience of Gear Diary’s Dan Cohen, buying a book on the Kindle platform is a game of digital Russian roulette.



Marshall Kirkpatrick, Dave Winer Join Forces For Bad Hair Day Podcast

Jun 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, General, Podcasting

ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick, right, and proto-podcaster Dave Winer kicked off a new podcast today, the Bad Hair Day Podcast. The podcast is old-school, basically an unedited conversation between the two, tech snafus and all. In the first episode, Kirkpatrick and Winer touch on the new iPhone OS, Twitter and even Kirkpatrick’s bizarre unicorn fetish. […]



Who Was The First Blogger?

Jun 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media

Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg put together this light-hearted look at his search for the first blogger as a promo for his new book, Say Everything, a look at the 15 year history of blogging. Anyone else amazed that blogging is 15 years old?



PAB2009: Podcasters Across Borders 2009 Kicks Off

Jun 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Podcasting, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts

PAB2009, Podcasters Across Borders 2009, kicks off today in Kingston, Ontario. The three day event, running from June 19th to June 21st at The Holiday Inn Waterfront, offers sessions focused on audio and video podcasting, but also on using social media and building new media-based communities. Most of all, the event is about meeting other […]



Crowdsourcing Commercial Radio

Jun 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media

CBS has announced that it plans to experiment with a new approach to radio, dispensing with traditional DJs and crowdsourcing the DJing, instead: CBS Radio will debut on June 28 the industry’s first 100 percent user-controlled, on-air radio program using a new social Web service called Jelli. Every Sunday between 10 p.m. and midnight on […]



Clay Shirky On Iran: “This is it. The big one.”

Jun 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Microblogging

Media analyst Clay Shirky has some interesting thoughts on the steady stream of photos, Twitter posts and videos coming out of post-election Iran: I’m always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding, but it seems pretty clear that … this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has […]



The Failure Of The Kindle As A New Media Platform

Jun 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Story, General

The Kindle book reader is a technological wonder – but some bloggers are beginning to recognize that the device is a bit of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

The Kindle looks like it should be a new media platform, but it’s primary focus is old media.

As a result, supporting the Kindle is, at least for some bloggers, a waste of time.



Microsoft’s Zune Sites Go Offline

Jun 16th, 2009 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Microsoft’s Zune sites are offline today to allow for maintenance. According to a message at Zune.net: Zune services will be down for scheduled maintenance starting Tuesday, June 16, at 12:01 a.m. PDT, for up to 24 hours. During this time, you will not be able to access the Zune Social, Zune.net forums, or Zune Marketplace. […]