Archive: New Media

NYT Bans ‘Tweet’ Except in Stories About Birds
Buck | June 11, 2010

To tweet or not to tweet? That is no longer the question at the New York Times.

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Should You Quit Facebook?
Buck | May 4, 2010

That seems like a silly question when Facebook is the happening social network these days. So gosh, why would anyone want to leave there?

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YouTube at 5 — How’d We Live Without It?
Buck | April 26, 2010

Five years since YouYube came into being and its content remains pretty consistent.

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Should We Trust User-Generated Travel Reviews?
Buck | April 22, 2010

Like everything else on the Internet, travel reviews should be consumed with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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Keys ‘Video of the Week’ Garners Business Coverage
Buck | February 1, 2010

The popularity of streaming video continues to grow as costs of photography equipment, video editing and production software, and hosting options continues to drop.

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Annual List of Banned Words Is ‘Shovel Ready’
NewmanPR | January 4, 2010

Since 1975, Lake Superior State University has submitted an annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”

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Big Brother Might Be ‘Following’ You
Buck | December 2, 2009

There’s one denizen of the social networks that won’t show up among the avatars of your Twitter followers or among your friends on Facebook, though it’s there all the same — the U.S. Justice Department.

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Using the FakeAPStylebook Will get You Fired
Buck | November 4, 2009

The FakeAPStylebook is just what it says — a compendium of bad grammatical and style advice on Twitter that satirizes the Bible of the Newsroom. Simply put, it’s a lot funnier than the original.

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Trying to Grok ‘Nowism’
Buck | October 14, 2009

In the most recent edition of TrendWatching, the editors introduce the concept of “nowism” to explain the transitory and hyper-current currency of our high-speed, now-focused lives.

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Burglars Using Social Networks to Target Victims
Buck | September 1, 2009

That guy you just friended on Facebook might be a second-story expert looking to liberate your plasma television while you’re on the vacation you just wrote about on your wall.

Topics: History of PR, New Media