The Guardian recently published an article arguing that digital news offers a choice in reading topics/sources, but that print “…offers something extra: stories that people didn’t know they wanted to read until they had read them.” Although the article brings up good points about the importance of diversifying one’s reading material(s), I beg to differ.… Read the rest of this entry
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Blaming Social Media for the Market Crash: Finger Should Point Elsewhere
It’s no secret that the stock market is falling faster than someone with cement shoes. The blame game focused on Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgrading the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA+. The markets reacted violently, dropping 635 points on August 8. It was enough to get many queasy about their financial futures. The… Read the rest of this entry
Favoriting Tweets: The Easiest Way To Keep Up on All Your Social Media/PR News Reading
Time and time again, the simplicity of Twitter has been undermined. And simplicity is a beautiful thing when noise in social networks is never going to go away. Even stories in the news might be considered “noise” because, while trying to be relevant, they fail to catch on with the majority. Or maybe it’s the… Read the rest of this entry
Where Do You Get Your News?
One of my favorite questions to ask almost anyone I meet is: “Where do you get your news?” As someone who is fascinated by all forms of media and communications, I love hearing about other people’s media habits, what strikes them as newsworthy and perhaps most interesting, where they are finding good info and insight… Read the rest of this entry