Why we all should blog and create an online presence

From my good friend Maria, I found this video on why we should all reflect, engage and of course blog!

 

MAKE MEDIA MATTER from MAKEMEDIAMATTER.COM on Vimeo.

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Social Media and the implications involved for journalists

Social media practices and implications for journalists

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Here is an informative slide presentation I found via the Walkley magazine twitter page produced by John Bergin, Director of Digital News @ Sky News. It explores the implications of social media for media makers and in particular journalists, in the current light of consequences seen in prominent media personalities. This is relevant for this research project, as one of the many tips advised so far from leading media professinals is to have a 'strong online presence', but following from Catherine Deveny's situation, it is not any online presence and one in direct correlation to the "values" of the media organisation you work for or plan on working for in the future.

Research into being a mobile journalist 'mo-jo'.

Stephen Quinn's research book into being a mojo. Very intersting idea in relation to future trends in journaliam and the use of technology in transforming this media form. Also Stephen has a current project which is exploring the publication of a book online, as each chapter is being written. More information and analysis of these projects will be updated once the interview with Stephen is completed next week.

Statistics on Web 2.0 and its usage rates

Focusing on Blogs, Facebook and Digg the above statistics add much weight to this discussion on a paper on Blogs that was written 7 years ago.

in reference to:

"Blogosphere stats
133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period
1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009)
77% - percentage of active Internet users who read blogs
55% – percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day (source)
81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere
59% – percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years
source

Twitter stats
1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here)
3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch)
165,414 - number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) – but he’s not active
86,078 – number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose)
63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)
Facebook stats
200,000,000 – number of active users
100,000,000 - number of users who log on to Facebook at least once each day
170 - number of countries/territories that use Facebook
35 - number of different languages used on Facebook
2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily
100 – number of friends the average user has
700,000,000 – number of photos added to Facebook monthly
52,000 – number of applications currently available on Facebook
140 - number of new applications added per day
source
Digg stats
236,000,000 – number of visitors attracted annually by 2008 (according to a Compete survey)
56% - percentage of Digg’s frontpage content allegedly controlled by top 100 users
124,340 - number of stories MrBabyMan, the number one user, has Dugg (see updated number here)
612 - number of stories from Cracked.com that have made page 1 of Digg (see all 41 pages of them here)
36,925 – number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365 days has received (see story here)"
- Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats (view on Google Sidewiki)