Citizen journalism or participatory/public journalism is one of the more popular forms of user generated content. From hobby writers to professional bloggers, this form of journalism allows the general population to play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information and provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant [...]
Ten years ago, Dell was virtually the king of the computer Industry, and from that throne, Michael Dell made a brash remark at ITxpo97. He was asked what he would do if he were the CEO of Apple: “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” (link) [...]
I never really thought I would be coming up with a completely original idea when I started writing this post, but to see a near-identical article posted on the famed Valleywag site just yesterday (when the idea for the post actually planted its seed) was a bit deflating. However, having read that article, I will [...]
The online world was abuzz yesterday with the official 9th birthday of search engine giant Google – I’m sure you’ve heard of it? Although co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain in 1997, the site was officially launched a year later. As usual, Google’s trademark logo was adapted for the event. For an [...]
As we all know, America (and most of the world as a consequence of America and some of its own doing), is in a recent economic downturn – quite likely on its way to becoming a recession, caused by alarmingly high default rates on recklessly issued sub-prime mortgages by many American and some European lenders. [...]
