“Blogging is so dead that Facebook and Twitter are joining Medium in trying to take it over.” — Dan Gillmor
https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/648937755062456321
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“Several studies, most notably by the Harvard Business School and Sysomos, have tried to analyze the user behaviour on microblogging services.[9][10] Several of these studies show that for services such as Twitter, there is a small group of active users contributing to most of the activity.[11] Sysomos’ Inside Twitter [10] survey, based on more than 11 million users, shows that 10% of Twitter users account for 86% of all activity.”
( Reading the above paragraph on Wikipedia, I just realized, the “1” in the 1-9-90 Rule when applied to Twitter, is really the People NOT on Twitter. The “9” are the People who are Linking TO or Tweeting ABOUT the Stuff found off-twitter written/blogged by that “1” Percent of Twitter “Users”. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging
Mainly Facebook happened Constructing social networks by…
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“…Mainly, Facebook happened. Constructing social networks by blogging takes work. You have to read, respond, post. You have to stay on top of the topics sweeping through what used to be called the “blogosphere.” Facebook is much better at building social networks for people. And you don’t have to spend serious time writing essays. Twitter lowered the character count further.”
“…In fact, blogs now often are where the most interesting ideas are surfaced, argued, and appropriated into a discipline’s discourse. Unlike the output in scholarly journals and magazines, in these webs of blogs we get to see ideas emerging from conversation among people sharing what in the old days we’d take as early drafts. These webs allow participation by people regardless of credentials, enabling voices to rise to their own level of credibility. “
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/30/why-blogging-still-matters/JkzFdTxoySZZwsyrFw7yMI/story.html
Barack Hussein Obama
On my 40th birthday, I found myself in the United States booth in the Exhibition Hall of World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They used an entire wall to create a photo opportunity for Forum attendess to shake hands with The President. So I did.
Two and half years later, it’s Election Day in The United States.
For President Obama, it’s Re-Election Day… or maybe the U.S. Electorate will vote Tails instead of Heads and The World wakes up to President-Elect Romney.
Whoever wins tonight, or in the days that follow pending an inconclusive result, it will be a night of nuanced firsts:
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The Story Behind Hurricane Sandy’s First Viral Photo
American Photo Magazine interviews Nick Cope about his viral photo experience during Hurricane Sandy. It is a story many accidental photojournalists will identify with.
” On the morning the storm hit New York City, Nick Cope snapped a photo of rising flood waters from the window of his Red Hook, Brooklyn apartment. Then things got interesting. “
Increasingly, Climate Change induced extreme weather phenomena has become the norm. Likewise, so has photograph rights-usage stories like Nick Cope’s also become the norm.