Is anonymity one big excuse?

By Angelo Fernando on September 21st, 2009 In Media, Writing

‘UnclePat’ got it right. He was responding to a question E.J. Montini  raised in his blog recently.
Explain to me some of the reasons you believe that is is necessary for those who post responses to blogs or add their opinion to comment threads should to be anonymous. Or, rather, why you choose to do so, [...]

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Are we writing the obit for long-form content?

By Angelo Fernando on August 27th, 2009 In Social Media

I’ll keep this short :–)
I’ve been experimenting with both long and short posts, long podcasts and short versions etc. So I raised this question yesterday with an editor-friend: Was long form journalism and publishing really dying, or, were we unwittinglydriving a stake into the heart of something we ought to preserve.  (Yes, there’s a very long [...]

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Social Media AZ highlights

By Angelo Fernando on August 21st, 2009 In Professional Development, Social Media

Many people I spoke to at yesterday’s  Social Media AZ conference were there, not just to hear something they hadn’t heard before,  (in an industry that’s changing every three seconds) but to exchange ideas, and connect.
Al Maag, Chief comms officer of Avnet set the scene with a keynote on a topic that almost everyone there [...]

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Journchat Live today at Phoenix

By Angelo Fernando on August 17th, 2009 In Best Practices

Such great timing, this event. I met with Patrick O’Grady this afternoon to talk of what I thought was an open agenda, but it soon turned into an analysis of where the heck is journalism going, and what do we do with all this network clutter.
Since I wear two hats at ASU, as a social [...]

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Angry mobs or a groundswell we may or may not like?

By Angelo Fernando on August 10th, 2009 In Uncategorized

It’s one thing to cheer on when citizens take to the streets with hand-made signs, or shout from the rooftops to voice their protest in Iran and other parts of the world.
It’s a different story when people do it here, as we have seen in the angry sign-carrying mobs showing up to protest healthcare reform.
There’s [...]

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Twitter traffic machine makes me sick

By Angelo Fernando on July 29th, 2009 In Uncategorized

It makes me want to shut up about micro-blogging.
For $27 bucks this guy is selling you five CD’s that will help you make money on Twitter by building 16,000 followers in 90 days. It’s called the Twitter Traffic Machine.
The pitch video is really sleazy. And what’s with the sign up page? Those red arrows give [...]

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