links for 2007-04-17

• Video sharing sites going down the Youtube?
  "As long as China's video sharing sites have the cash to keep going, they will eventually find ways to make money off their audience — brand advertisers in China will need some time to get on board, but when they do, they will follow the young people wh
  (tags: china internet youtube video tudou chineseinternetresearch)
• Deborah Howell - Readers' Plea: Get to the Point - washingtonpost.com
  In the web and blackberry era readers have less patience for "anecdotal leads" and want the point of the story to be clear and straight up front.
  (tags: journalism writing internet education newmedia)
• Students trace a tragedy online - Los Angeles Times
  "Hiding in his dorm room, Virginia Tech freshman Bryce Carter did what anyone his age would do in a time of crisis — he blogged."
  (tags: u.s.a. blogging breakingnews)
• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Hyper-Local Citizen Media Sites Learn How to Serve Small Communities | PBS
  "After talking to a half-dozen publishers and funders of grassroots citizen media sites, I’ve come up with a series of lessons they’ve learned."
  (tags: citizenmedia internet web2.0 news media journalism)
• E-Activism: Analysis of Black Bloggers in the Blogosphere
  "Brown University’s Antoinette Pole found that bloggers of color are using this burgeoning medium to encourage political participation and activism."
  (tags: u.s.a. blogging blogs politics diversity)
• Pacific Epoch - China Blocks Baidu Japan
  "Baidu's Japanese search engine Baidu.jp has been blocked in mainland China."
  (tags: baidu japan search censorship)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

""Hiding in his dorm room, Virginia Tech freshman Bryce Carter did what anyone his age would do in a time of crisis — he blogged.""

There is certainly something wrong with the LA times report. According to another report I read, Chicago something, the killer is a Chinese. Cho Seung-Hui does not sound Chinese. So LA times must be wrong because the killer is suppose to be a Chinese.