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Apple, iPhones, And Mobile Broadcasting's Bright Future

While the BBC is bringing smartphone tech to its journalists for on-the-spot newscasting, Apple has its own plans for this tech--and it's quite promising for everyone from foreign correspondents to citizen journos. READ»

Google Helps Journalists Make Data More Informative, And Beautiful

Millions in new grants will help journalist hackers create visually striking graphics that will both inform the public and help reporters find patterns they didn't know were there.READ»

Facebook To Launch New Photo App, Airbnb Faces Couch-Crashing Competitor, And More...

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. READ»

Sarah Palin's Emails And The New York Times's Adventures In Crowdsourcing

What makes a crowdsourcing solicitation fall flat on its face?READ»

YouTube Extends CitizenTube Concept With Local News Channel Deal

It's long been a staple of citizen journalism, but YouTube has signed a deal with a local news station in San Francisco to enable people to submit their own video reports and photos. It's a little bit of crowd-sourcing, a little bit ...READ»

Now I've gotten to 88% "Profile Completion"

(working to more fully grasp what's expected of me to complete to FastCompany.com profile)READ»

Is the iPhone 3G S Speeding Citizen Journalism Forward?

Citizen journalism is about to become more powerful than you had imagined. The reason? The just-released iPhone 3G S, with its built-in video recording power and ability to directly upload to YouTube.  Citizen journalism is ...READ»

Iranian “Correspondents” File by Twitter and YouTube

Does Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran?READ»

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Twitter to Take Real-Time Search to the Next Level

Twitter has some very interesting plans for its newly-unveiled live search function: soon it will activate crawlers that will index the links users include in their Tweets. In one fell swoop that turns Twitter into an even more ...READ»

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Twitter Catches Swine Flu, But Don't Shoot the Messenger

As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»

If We Did Not Build it, They Would Not Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered - The Harsh Reality of the New World Media

Over the past two years, the way in which American's receive their news has changed. No longer does the father come home, kick off his shoes, and read the day’s events in the local newspaper such as THE NEWARK ADVOCATE, A Gannett Publication, based in Newark, Ohio. America, The way media in America is being distriputed arounnd the world is no longer in the hands of "The Editorial Board" but YOU, The American Citizen Journalist, From RobertPaisola.com READ»

So, You Say that You Want to Be Wealthy? What Will YOU DO to Get It? by Robert Paisola

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Paisola CEO Western Capital Financial Robert Paisola is an international motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is an expert in the field of Personal Real Estate Investor Training. He is a professional speaker who has been featured on CNN, CNNFN, and the Wall Street Journal. He can answer your questions on the “Basics of the Real Estate Investing Business” to detailed issues regarding your specific transactions. Life Experience Robert Paisola is a Professional International Seminar Speaker in the Areas of Real Estate Investing, Tax Lien Investing, Rental Property Management, Real Estate Coach and Mentor Training and Business Management. He has served companies throughout the world. If you are interested in learning the business from someone like Rob email his office at mailto:robert@trumpworldwide.com or call our offices Nationwide toll Free at 1-877-517-9555 or visit http://www.allexperts.com/displayExpert.asp?Expert=38419 or visit http://www.robertpaisola.comREAD»

Breaking Into the Media Industry Easier

Breaking into the media publishing industry without a portfolio is extremely difficult, if not impossible. However, one citizen journalism site is looking to make portfolio-building easier and more lucrative. Helium.com, is a ...READ»

No editing of blog posts or comments once submitted?

Hmmmm ... I saw I had an erroneous URL in my previous blog post, but I had no way to edit it.   there's also no apparent way to stay logged in to this site.   :UPDATE: You can update blog posts, but ...READ»

Inactive Groups on FastCompany.com

I've been a member of the Web Analytics group since joining FastCompany.com I posted once in February and another today. No responses to either. There are nominally 11 members of this group. I'd best most or all of them ...READ»

Is Broadcasting Shifting?

While the term “broadcasting” means many things most think in terms of blogs, social networks and YouTube. The next leg of the social web will progress to enable individuals, groups and entire communities to establish their ...READ»

How Do You Lead Socialutions?

We have been in dialog with numerous Fortune 500 corporations relative to the benefits of leveraging social media. Much of our advice has been centric to ensuring that leadership understands the dynamics of embarking on any social ...READ»

Everything in My Place?

As we watch developments across the web we try and look ahead as to where and when the functions and features will converge. Features such as video, micro blogging, networking, blogging, feeds, search etc. etc. ...READ»

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Social Network News

I've been fascinated lately by the ways that journalism is blending with social networking. I first started thinking about this in regards to Facebook, with its "news" feed. The news on that site is mostly about friends ...READ»

creating the blog moved me to 25%

but adding groups, feeds and newsletters did nothing else to further the completeness of my profile. The base info of my "profile," btw,, is pretty generic. Compared with other professional networks I use, I feel a bit ...READ»