Monday, November 9, 2009

The Future of Indy Media

Journalism professor Vadim Isakov gave a presentation in class Thursday discussing the future of independent media.

The Tech Trends Everyone Should Know:

1) Real Time Web
2) Light Blogging
3) Personalization Niche Targeting
4) Interactive TV
5) Identity Recognition
6) Augmental Reality
7) Mobile Life
8) Geolocation
9) Internet of Things

One debate we had in class was that #2, Light Blogging, almost downplays the art of actually blogging. To me, saying light blogging is unauthentic because someone else types for you is as ludicrous as when reporters complained about bloggers rifting off of mainstream stuff. It's all the same thing. Getting information out there as soon as possible is the goal. The way you do that is honestly up to you.

p.s. Many celebrities do not upkeep their own blogs and twitters homepages. Why start yelling at secretaries now?

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