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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Digital Media’ Category
Changes In My Media Consumption
Posted in Bits & Atoms, Daily Digest, Digital Media on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Were You Awake at 4am This Morning?
Posted in Digital Media on March 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
(Less than half an hour after the L.A. earthquake this morning, the term “earthquake” dominated the local Twitter trends in L.A.) Unfortunately, I was, when the earthquake in the L.A. area happened around 4 am this morning. According to the US Geological Survey, it was only a 4.4 magnitude quake and was centered about 12 [...]
“I just met you, but I love you already!”
Posted in Digital Media, Fun Stuff, Twitter on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you still remember the cute dog in Disney-Pixar’s movie “Up”, which had an automated collar that could translate his thoughts into human languages? When he first met the little boy in the movie, he looked at him with a waving tail and happy tongue, saying: “I just met you, but I love you already!” [...]
From Google Wave to Google Buzz… or Vice-Versa?
Posted in Digital Media, Google, Online Privacy on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Google Buzz has been around for about two weeks now, and some of my tech savvy friends on Buzz have already mastered it like they did for Twitter, using it as a broadcast tool to create word-of-mouth effect for their brands or events. Many websites like Mashable have also become early adopters of Buzz, actively [...]
What Happens Online…Should Live Offline
Posted in Brand Community, Digital Media on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This seems to be a very obvious fact: all the most successful online communities and social media campaigns are the ones that have made a real impact in people’s offline lives. But since more and more effort is devoted to crafting complex online tools that encourage people to interact with each other more deeply online [...]
APOC and Kung Fu
Posted in Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, APOC, Charles Annenberg Weingarten Program on Online Communities, Chinese Martial Art, Digital Media, Newspaper Industry Consolidation, USC on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the long awaited APOC program finally started! When I arrived at the class building atSanta Monica in the afternoon, I could not help but peek at the busy people passing by on the street, wondering: is he or she another APOCer? When I entered the classroom, a group of APOCers were already sitting there [...]
