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I´m a Journalism student as well as a Multimedia graduate. I´m interested in the social web and the media.

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Monthly Archives: March, 2010

Online Journalism

Surprisingly online journalism is nothing new- in 1981 the San Francisco examiner went online. At $20 to download the paper (most of which which was spent on just the phone call) it was not a revolutionary it was not revolutionary it was an important step online. Thirteen years later in January 1994 the Palo Alto [...]

Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles

An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]

Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles

An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]

The Mother of all Demos

In this video from 1968 Doug Engelbart gives, what he called, “mother of all Demos” in which he demonstrates the first modern PC-compete with mouse, keyboard, screen and a pre-courser to emails.

Viruses attacking Irish Websites

Irish websites are being attacked by a series of sophisticated viruses, the website hosting company Digiweb warned today. The company has advised customers, whom it believes have been attacked, that their website passwords have been compromised. In an email sent to customers who have been attacked the company said, “As part of an ongoing investigation, [...]

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