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Twitter is happy to proclaim it’s ready to replace the Associated Press when it comes to breaking news. Twitter users beat AP by nine minutes with news of this week’s Southern California earthquake. While the quality or depth of the work may not be comparable to that of professional journalists, many people enjoy immediacy and [...]

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Twittering is getting from mainstream media buzz from places like USA Today. When a movement gets attention from such places, it often means it is beginning to move out of the techie-junkie realm into the field of vision of your average internet user.

The social networking site growing so fast that it is wrestling with the [...]

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Classified ads in American newspapers are quickly evaporating. So far this year, they are off 25%. At the same time, Craigslist is booming. Housing ads are up 85% from a year ago. Rental ads are up 120%. Even real estate are ahead 70%. , Craigslist charges a fee for employment ads in 10 [...]

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MediaStorm is a small company of just six people. But the “multimedia production company”s is having an impact on photojournalism by taking still images, video or audio tape, and then looking for a story to fit the material. After adding a narrative, you have a group of short chapters that do not follow any particular [...]

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On the scene reports about China’s devastating earthquake have the Internet buzzing. Despite China’s tight grip on media, citizen journalists are being credited with getting news out of the country in photos, videos, maps, and personal diaries. The stories of victims and remarkable rescues are moving unfiltered from the original source to computers and cell [...]

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