This is a presentation on social media that I gave at the Nevada Interactive Media Summit at University of Nevada, Reno on March 7, 2009.
The underlined words in slides should link out to the live page depicted in the slide.
First, let’s look at the past -- at the original journalists ...
These petroglyphs were etched on a wall in a wash at the Valley of Fire in southern Nevada.
There is something thrilling about the fact that I can take a picture of them with my Treo, and in a matter of minutes, upload it to my Flickr stream and directly down into my blog. I can only vaguely understand what these ancient storytellers were trying to describe and chronicle. Still, they are magic.
As is the technology that let’s me share this -- broadcast this -- so easily and quickly.
Before Gutenberg the Church, and the Pope controlled what would be printed and published, in part because it was so expensive to carve woodblocks and create plates for pages. Gutenberg’s invention of using mass-produced, metal movable type in a printing press unleashed a revolutionary freedom of a press independent of dictates of the church. Now renegades like Martin Luther could publish their commentary on the Bible and publish many copies of broadsheets -- the precursors to newspapers.
By most accounts, Gutenberg’s invention enabled the European Renassaince.
Before Gutenberg the Church, and the Pope controlled what would be printed and published, in part because it was so expensive to carve woodblocks and create plates for pages. Gutenberg’s invention of using mass-produced, metal movable type in a printing press unleashed a revolutionary freedom of a press independent of dictates of the church. Now renegades like Martin Luther could publish their commentary on the Bible and publish many copies of broadsheets -- the precursors to newspapers.
By most accounts, Gutenberg’s invention enabled the European Renassaince.
I would argue that recent tools like blogging software -- Wordpress, blogger, blogspot, and the aptly named blog software Moveable Type, combined with YouTube, Flickr, PhotoBucket, AOL Instant Messenger
and Flickr are tantamount to Gutenberg all over again. It used to be that if I wanted to get my message out, I needed to own a multi-million-dollar printing press or a bazillion-dollar broadcast transmitter, or own a major Hollywood studio or an established record label.
Twitter as the new transistor radio -- in your purse, in your pocket, headline news
Twitter as the new transistor radio -- in your purse, in your pocket, headline news
Federated Media,
Chris Nolan -- Spot On, Stand Alone Journalist,
Quality News Network, created by a friend who used to be Barbara Walters’ producer and wants to raise the bar and be independent.
Pegasus news
Huffington Post
Talking Points Memo which took down the Attorney General of the United States in much the same way that a former guest in this house, Bob Woodward, with his partner Carl Bernstein, took down the president of the United States.
Federated Media,
Chris Nolan -- Spot On, Stand Alone Journalist,
Quality News Network, created by a friend who used to be Barbara Walters’ producer and wants to raise the bar and be independent.
Pegasus news
Huffington Post
Talking Points Memo which took down the Attorney General of the United States in much the same way that a former guest in this house, Bob Woodward, with his partner Carl Bernstein, took down the president of the United States.
Before Gutenberg the Church, and the Pope controlled what would be printed and published, in part because it was so expensive to carve woodblocks and create plates for pages. Gutenberg’s invention of using mass-produced, metal movable type in a printing press unleashed a revolutionary freedom of a press independent of dictates of the church. Now renegades like Martin Luther could publish their commentary on the Bible and publish many copies of broadsheets -- the precursors to newspapers.
By most accounts, Gutenberg’s invention enabled the European Renassaince.
Twitter as the new transistor radio -- in your purse, in your pocket, headline news
geo-tagging the story
Today, Bonnie Raitt and ... need no label and no television and no CD to broadcast their message:
Federated Media,
Chris Nolan -- Spot On, Stand Alone Journalist,
Quality News Network, created by a friend who used to be Barbara Walters’ producer and wants to raise the bar and be independent.
Pegasus news
Huffington Post
Talking Points Memo which took down the Attorney General of the United States in much the same way that a former guest in this house, Bob Woodward, with his partner Carl Bernstein, took down the president of the United States.