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Here’s just a sampling of the citizen journalist video getting uploaded to YouTube. I enjoy the non-narrated slice of life stuff most. You can tell from this simple street scene that a peaceful coup has taken place. Forget distilled reports - when you see tanks riding peacefully down the street with passenger cars, that tells you plenty.
A quick search of YouTube turns up plenty more video from Thailand as well.
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Global Voices has been gathering blog posts from Thailand that are reporting on the military coup. The reports from the street sure sound like life is pretty normal. The blog Lost in Translation, Life in Bangkok has this headline: Happy Military Coup. From the blog: Well… today.. scary day? No.. its more like a holiday. After the TV declared a holiday, I slept till 3pm… It’s not scary like how military coups are like else where. It’s a happy mode. No one blowing each other brains out. And if only everyday Bangkok could be naturally this less congested. On the streets, civilians are enjoying the holiday. Bringing food and water to the soldiers, photo taking session, flowers presented to soldiers.” (via JD Lasica)
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WBZ, the CBS O/O in Boston, took on the tricky challenge of a multicast Tuesday night for the state’s primary elections. While ‘BZ ran CBS programming for much of the night, it had an online newscast all night. And it was in that webcast that they broke the news that they were calling Deval Patrick as the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. They then put the news on their sister station, WSBK, which had been in a break of its coverage. Finally, the news broke on WBZ. So to summarize: they beat the competition by breaking the news online, put the TV scoop on their UHF station and then had it on the “parent channel.” That’s how you break a story - and a mold. Does anyone still think breaking news online before anyone in the market had it on-air somehow hurt them? Another myth says goodbye. Watch here to see how WBZ broke the story first online.
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Roughly 17 percent of the adult population are console gamers. They consider themselves trendsetters and consume an above-average amount of media according to a new study by Universal-McCann. They are also accepting of product placement in moves and television. The study said that the media consumption habits of console gamers, combined with their feelings toward advertising, make them a good target for marketers.
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AdMission powers the site that allows paying users to create in-depth listings in a featured ads section. Windows Live Expo includes social networking features and connects to Microsoft’s Live Messenger and Live Spaces products. AdMission also powers classifieds for Web properties of The New York Times Company, Cox, Gannett, the Washington Post, and Hearst, as well as YellowPages.com.
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Remember Go, Disney’s portal to its media empire during the dot-com bubble? Disney’s President and CEO Bob Iger has announced his goals
to revamp disney.com and relaunch it next year to be all thing to all demographics. Disney will deploy a new feature to customize the interface to users by age.
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Ben Compaine presented a quiz at a conference of small newspaper editors to get them thinking about new strategies for their papers and their sites. Few editors were able to answer half of them correctly. How will you fare?
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A few days ago Safran introduced LR to GO2WEB20.net, a Web 2.0 directory. That may be overwhelming for some, so Michael Calore at Wired just compiled a list of the best and worst Web 2.0 concepts. Can’t wait to try out writely, a web-based word processor. I’m all about moving all of my content onto the web and freeing myself from Microsoft! My personal favs are Google’s Calendar and del.icio.us (although readers of Calore’s blog gave del.icio.us a thumbs down.) What are your favs?
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