Greg Verdino raises an interesting question to Nielsen BuzzMetrics about its ongoing client-only CGM Summit 2006, ...how can you host an event about consumer generated media and not let your consumers, um, generate media? This is Greg's response to a warning... Read more >>

Yesterday I discussed with Katherine over dinner about our blogging patterns. She's got a Livejournal and updates it from time to time. What she covers are her news, interesting experience, and something she'd like to share with specific people--some entries are... Read more >>

Thanks go to Discovery Channel for bringing up such a touching documentary on the stories of people who left four years ago. Before today they were strangers to me but now I know something of them, something that will last... Read more >>

Wang Jianshuo is 2 days away from his 1000th day of blogging. Congrats! Now it's time to count my blog posts in the past 22 months. *blush*... Read more >>

I don't mean to offend anyone but I'm really fed up with coming across those words from time to time. They are used everywhere--so often that make me sick. My disgust has nothing to do with the meaning of those... Read more >>

At the very end of the story, she basically said, "My name is 2318. Please don't forget our stories. Please tell our stories so this doens't happen again." She didn't refer to her as Magda Blau but 2318. --Debra Fisher... Read more >>

I'm studying why people blog. Before I ask every blogger I run into the question "why do you blog?", it's wise to think over the question myself beforehand. So, why I blog? The following reasons are not in a... Read more >>

Following Lilia Efimova, Liz Lawley and Jack Vinson. It is time to think back the year of 2004 with 40 questions... 1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? Riding 16 roller coasters in a single... Read more >>

At least 120,000 people have lost their lives in East Africa and South Asia in the aftermath of the earthquake and resulting tsunamis on December 26. Thousands of people in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and Indonesia are still missing; many... Read more >>

Zola claimed his principles of link exchange. I sumrized his ideas as following and my comments added as well [C]: 1. Friends sharing similar interests are welcomed. C: I might misinterpreted/mistranslated this item here. What he used is a Chinese... Read more >>

Yasser Arafat is gone; I got my ibook 12; Delicious Library is out; will she make a fotune from the moldy cheese cake? The world is changing. I'm still alive. Thanksgiving is coming. Pretty good, huh?... Read more >>

Steve Jobs at the California Theatre in San Jose, CA: [watch the event here] Video may be the wrong direction to go... Video is the wrong place... What's the right place...Digital photos... Everybody is having a digital camera now...Photos are... Read more >>

I will present a detailed description and critique of the research process in which I conducted a frame analysis to compare ten news stories published in New York Times. The first step to conduct a textual analysis is to determine... Read more >>

No doubt tonight's Asian Cup final between Japan -- the defending Asian Cup champion -- and China -- who is playing in its first-ever Asian Cup final -- has been the focus of mass media and average Chinese people. The... Read more >>

Don't do unto others what you don't want others do unto you. I'm not talking nonsense. Just remind myself.... Read more >>

Yin Yin expressed her dissatisfaction with my recent entries in her comment. I feel the same way. I was blogging for blogging, that's it. I'm asking myself a question all the time: why people read my blog? It's not that... Read more >>

I don't know what happened fifteen years ago. I ain't supposed to know the truth, am I?... Read more >>

The unfortunate reality here, however, is that many bloggers themselves often neglect to properly credit other webloggers who break hard news through real reporting. How can we expect the press to source us if we neglect to credit the other... Read more >>

I just sent an email to J.D., Murali, and Ronnie, co-founders of weblogs.us. Since Weblogs.us is a free blog hosting service for Movable Type based blogs, I'm curious how they would deal with the new MT commercial licence which strictly... Read more >>

WARNING: I reserve my right of posting bullshit on my own blog. The content of the post might be offensive to some of you folks. If you meet all of the following criteria below, you'd better stop reading right now... Read more >>

This week's reading presents a thorough literature review and related empirical researches on the issue of ethics in journalism and public relations. This issue of ethical journalism has been examined and discussed in terms of issues and theories (p. 44,... Read more >>

Dr. Steven Goldzwig Johnston Hall 303 Feb 6th, 2004 2:00-3:30 p.m. Seven Lessons from President Clinton?s Race Initiative: A Post-Mortem on the Politics of Desire 1.Only the U.S. has the principles and human capital to overcome global tensions: U.S. diversity... Read more >>