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CNBC wants Your Story!

Call for Content: This lingering, pesky recession has encouraged CNBC.com to take a look at how the crisis has affected Americans via user-generated video. Faces of the Recession, part of the site's ongoing Boom, Bust & Blame section, is soliciting UGC video tales about how the recession has impacted individual citizens -- YOUR LIVES.  We all have a recession story. Submit your video by Sept. 30 on CNBC.com, YouTube or CNBC's Facebook fan page.
August 25, 2009
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MySpace and Online Music Trends

There's no question that MySpace has revolutionized online music with its MySpace Music section, where many bands, known and unknown, have relied on to reach fans and offer representative songs.  Some bands exclusively use MySpace as a home webpage to announce news and gigs; some have been signed by record labels from their pages alone.  Partnerships with labels has helped with exposure. (more…)
August 20, 2009
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Hacker News

Master hcker  Albert Gonzales, 28, called by some "a true life Matrix Neo," was indicted in federal district court on Monday, August 17, 2009,  for carrying out credit card data theft from a staggering 130 million credit cards. (more…)
August 18, 2009
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Daisy Wants YOU!

On line maverick Daisy Whitney is accepting original video submissions around the theme Time Of My Life, the title of Allison Winn Scotch's NY Times bestseller just released in paperback. What does she want from you? Produce a 10-15 second video for a chance to be featured in the New Media Minute. Daisy Whitney has been acknowledged as a new media expert. She specializes in covering Internet video, social networking, YouTube, iTunes and other forms of online and new media distribution of content.
August 18, 2009
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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