GigaWhat?

Scoble and Israel adamantly support blogging throughout the first eight chapters of their book Naked Conversations. Not until chapter nine do the authors provide a hint of blogging’s dark side.  The authors assert that some companies and individuals should not blog due to the nature of their business. In fact, the first few paragraphs of [...]

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Conversations, naked or not

Scoble and Israel’s book Naked Conversations discusses the impacts that a company that blogs can potentially experience.  The authors support blogging tremendously, claiming that every company should have a blog, as it is the modern method of talking to and listening to one’s customers. The authors provide several examples of how blogging can resuscitate a [...]

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Blogs, Trolls, Australia, and the Law

In chapter seven of We the Media, Gillmor presents blogs as a new, better way to get news.  He discusses the role that the once-audience can now play in reporting news through the Internet.  In particular, Gillmor defends the idea of blogging in circumstances in which Big Media reporters cannot make it to the site [...]

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Gillmor and Doctorow…thoughts

Gillmor’s We the Media discusses the revolution of journalism in the 20th century, attributing the changes to a more connected world and the introduction of the digital age. The author provides a short comparison of how journalists reported news prior to this era and he claims that the news consumer now has much more control [...]

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First post

Hello! Welcome to my blog for Intro to the Digital Age.

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