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The democratization of the news #cnnfail #IranElection

Social Media, especially Twitter, is so much faster than the traditional media channels at spreading the word about hot topics. I’ve been following @BreakingNews since they used @BreakingNewsOn, and found that I heard about news 1-2 hours before the “breaking news” placeholder showed up on major news sites.It looks like CNN has demonstrated this [...]

Once upon a time, newspapers were on the bleeding edge…

From 1981, a KRON-TV (San Francisco) report about newspapers investing money in getting the news “online”.  My favorite is the classic rotary phone handset to modem, and the caption under the interview of a user of the service which reads, “owns home computer.”TechCrunch:  You Need To See This Video.Of course, the representative from the San [...]