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Jeromy Stallings

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Online Trends: Citizen Journalism

Help a Journalist Out Sites such as CNN's iReport have been the big "Thing" in online trend-setting in 2009 when it comes to citizen journalism -- the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information. Authors Bowman and Willis say: "The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable,…
August 17, 2009
DesignDevelopment

Online Trends: Avatars Doing Well with Virtual Economies

Have you stopped playing in the Second Life universe?  Sick of avatars -- are they too 2007 for you? Avatars and virtual worlds have yet to make their biggest impact: on the economic level, already having rooted itself deep into entertainment and intellectual challange.  Virtial reality will soon effect "the meat world" as some call it, and there are many who have been anticipating the rise of an entire economy around virtual goods and services. (more…)
August 14, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

Online Ad Awareness

This is news of importance interest to us all...a new study entitled "Improving Ad Performance Online: The Impact of Advertising on Content Sites" was released by the Online Publishers Association concludes that advertising on premium websites, as apposed to web portals, is a more effective tool for advertisers. The study reveals that ads on content sites scored higher in raising brand awareness, message association, brand favorability and purchase intent by large margins. Online ad awareness, measuring whether or not consumers remember seeing…
August 14, 2009
Design

New Cool Stuff Online

Every week, new websites, beta tests, products and start-ups show up in the digital world.  We try to keep up with everything.  Here a few things this week that we believe you will find interesting and useful: Google states it has quadrupled the number of newspaper articles it has archived in its News Archive Search section, a handy tool that pulls up articles from papers around the world it has digitized going as far back as 1753. New archived publications include the Halifax…
August 2, 2009
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ComicCon Review — A Look Back

Many ComicCon attendees are still recuperating from the four days (for some, all week) of fun and imaginative madness.  Now that we've had a time to take a deep breath and settle down, people already are prepping for C0micCon 2010, which promises to be even bigger, better, wilder, crazier -- and the team at Ninthlink, PlanetIllogica, and all our friends and collegaues will be right there! Let's take a quick look back at all the fun, sites, and surprises... (more…)
July 28, 2009