Blogcritics Category: Sci/Tech: Blogging

Traditional Radio, Part Three: Jocks, Music, Social Networking, Old & New Media

Radio Coach Sam Weaver — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:53:44 EST

Traditional radio is at a crossroads, and only a marriage with new media provides the solutions.
Relaxed FCC regulations, consolidation, and creative financing have placed traditional radio at peril. This final installment of a three part series will attempt to provide some solutions for revitalization.Road to RecoveryThe first place to start is with the sound of the stations. Enough with syndication, put local faces on the brand. Syndication...

Twitter Users (Including Barack and Britney) Hacked and Phished

Ed Dickson — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:08:23 EST

Twitter has been the target of a phishing attack and Barack Obama's Twitter account was hacked over the weekend.
The Phishermen (and probably a few women) are always looking for fresh waters to hook some unsuspecting phish -- so it should be no surprise that Twitter is their latest target. After all, e-mail, cell phones, and Facebook have already been phished, along with countless desktops and laptops.According to a Symantec blog post, Twitter users are...

Ten Amazingly Accurate Tech Predictions for 2009

Robert M. Barga — Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:11:07 EST

Fanboys, get ready to argue...
1) Apple will start to lose desktop/laptop market share. While Apple has never really had a large share of the market, they have been making slow but steady gains the last few years. The biggest increase for Apple is in the college demographic. However, with the stumbling economy, the masses will buy fewer and fewer computers from Apple as they...

When the Facebook Snowball Becomes an Avalanche

Joanne Huspek — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:01:56 EST

When the Facebook snowball becomes an avalanche, it�s time to move to a tropical island.
When I joined Facebook a year and a half or so ago, little did I think that the social networking site would become a ginormously addicting and time-sucking pastime. Damn those geniuses that came up with the Facebook idea! Actually, I wish it were I who had conceptualized the scheme, because if I had, I’d be laughing all the way on the many...

To Fellow Bloggers: A Memo

Roger Nowosielski — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:51:43 EST

A community of one's peers is all to the good. But where do we go from here?
I was elated at first to have joined Blogcritics Magazine – “the community of readers and writers from around the globe.” And my first three articles, published as promptly as possible in spite of my problems with the interface, have only confirmed the experience. The response was phenomenal, the discussion most spirited and of...

Are Bloggers a New Elite?

Ivo Quartiroli — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:28:22 EST

What would Socrates say about the new medium?
Wired author Ryan Singel wrote an article about the Huffington Post “being accused of slimy business practices by a handful of smaller publications who say the site is unfairly copying and publishing their content.” Singel quotes Moser, an editor at alternative weekly Chicago Reader, saying:If the future of journalism – which...

Video Training Review: Designing The Moment with Robert Hoekman

T. Michael Testi — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:27:51 EST

This is a short but very focused video, the goal of which is to show you how to get a user to sign up to your Web site.
When you see a popular site, do you ever wonder how they get so many people to sign up for their products and services? It all has to do with providing an experience to the user that makes them feel comfortable turning over personal information like their e-mail address to the site. It also has to do with providing an environment that makes it easy...

Top 10 Applications for the iPhone from 2008

Robert M. Barga — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:34:22 EST

What you should have on your iPhone.
Picking the top ten applications for the iPhone from 2008 was a very tough job to do. I had to decide between many qualified apps. Some of them are popular, some are unknown. Some are free, some cost a bit of money. Some are games, others are utilities. While this list is subjective (as are all top-ten lists), I did my best to base this on actual...

Microsoft Goes Viral with the Help of Brickfish - Part Two

Robert M. Barga — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:45:26 EST

An interview with Brickfish CEO/President Nichole Goodyear
This is the second part of a three-part series about Microsoft and Brickfish teaming up to get the "I’m a PC" campaign all across the Internet. The first part was about the actual campaign and how the two are working together. This part is an interview with Brickfish CEO/President/Co-founder Nichole Goodyear. It mainly focuses on...

The Future of Blogging

Roger Nowosielski — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:28:43 EST

The blogging phenomenon is geared to replace the traditional means of information dissemination and exchange.
In his book, Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart (2007), Pat Buchanan complains we're being drowned in a multitude of voices precisely when focus on a single view or perspective may be the most needed. Interestingly, Buchanan singles out the Internet as the main culprit.It's the unanticipated...