The fast development of communications technology is quickly democratizing the central control of media power held by a few traditional media conglomerates and releasing it to a vast array of emerging new media platforms. These new media platforms have adopted a simple but more efficient persona encompassing everything from the contentproduction to product consumption. Like [...]
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Changes In My Media Consumption
Posted in Bits & Atoms, Daily Digest, Digital Media on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SEO, here we go!
Posted in APOC, Daily Digest, SEO on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ever since I started to try to looking beyond a website’s surface appearance and dig deeper, I have consistently run into the mysterious word “SEO” (search engine optimization). Now I am very excited that my APOC class has provided us a chance to learn this concept systematically, as I truly believe that in a world [...]
Four New Media Journalism Forays Into L.A.’s Local Communities
Posted in Daily Digest, Go Local, Newspaper Industry Consolidation on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the past two months, I have been lucky to sit in on four Annenberg noon seminars that have all explored a common theme: how journalism equipped with new media technologies could better serve local communities, and what opportunities new communication technologies have brought to many previously media under-served communities in the Greater Los Angeles [...]
Happy Chinese New Year, Especially to Palm
Posted in Chinese Tech Industry, Daily Digest, News From China on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Kaixin001.com Poor Palm Chinese New Year just took place over the past three-day weekend. According to Chinese customs, this holiday lasts for two weeks after New Year’s Day on the Chinese lunar calendar, and people will celebrate each day with different celebrations and rituals. Right now the entire country is still immersed in the [...]
My Mental Entanglement: Kindle vs iPad
Posted in Daily Digest, Electronics on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Kindle photo taken from http://bit.ly/c55IJW)(The Apple iPad Photo: HO/REUTERS) This past Christmas, I was thinking about buying a Kindle as a Christmas gift for a friend and also for myself. After spending a lot of effort to resist the tempting ad on the center of Amazon’s front page claiming the Kindle was the most popular [...]
Three Very Distinctive Communities
Posted in Daily Digest, Go Local, Online Community on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the past two days, three very distinctive communities came into my view: Amish Community The first one is the Amish community in the U.S, introduced by Professor Dmitri Williams in the Thursday night’s class. We watched part of a documentary movie, ” Devil’s Playground”, which depicted this community’s lifestyle and beliefs. It was the [...]
