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New Report on Top Brands

gmboone — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:09:42 +0000

Interbrand released The Best Global Brands List at http://www.interbrand.com/best_global_brands.aspx?year=2009&langid=1000

Coca-Cola, IBM and Microsoft were the top three.

How do you use the Internet?

gmboone — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:22:40 +0000

PEW Internet and American Life has a quick survey you can take about your online activities.

The Survey is at http://www.pewinternet.org/Participate/What-Are-You-Doing-Online.aspx

Do you use the Internet more for connecting to friends and family, for entertainment, for getting news, or for other purposes? Would you rather use email or IM? Do you tweet?

Has the Internet improved your life or does it give you more things to do?

Do you want to connect to the Internet when you are on vacation?

How do you feel about the Internet?

Some trends in advertising

gmboone — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:44:27 +0000

1. Higher costs for Superbowl advertising. It will cost $3 million for 30 seconds in the 2009 Superbowl.

Journalism in the Changing Media World

gmboone — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:32:01 +0000

The Department of Communication & Journalism at Suffolk University

is pleased to present

an interactive conference with local and national print, broadcast and online journalists.

March 26 - 27, 2007

C. Walsh Theatre,

55 Temple Street
Boston

Monday, March 26, 2007

10a.m. - 12p.m, Newspaper Journalism
1:30-3:30pm, Internet/Online Journalism
3:30-5:00pm, New Challenges to Investigative Journalism

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

10a.m. - 11:30am, Broadcast News Panel

1:30-3:00pm, Opinion Journalism

Scheduled to appear:

Boston Globe Columnists, Joan Vennochi and Derrick Jackson
Boston Herald columnist, Peter Gelzinis
WCVB-TV, Channel 5 anchor, Natalie Jacobson
New England Cable News anchor, R.D. Sahl
WGBH’s Greater Boston host and executive editor, Emily Rooney
Radio Open Source host and Internet publisher, Christopher Lydon

Internet columnist and publisher of Economic Principles, David Walsh

Syndicated and Internet advice columnist,
Margo Howard

Syndicated and Providence Journal columnist, Froma Harrop
Boston Globe Editor, Marty Baron
Denver Post Editor, Greg Moore
Curator of the Nieman Foundation, Bob Giles

Former Editor of St. Louis Post-Dispatch and visiting faculty at Poynter Institute,
Ellen Soeteber

Senior writer for the Wall Street Journal,
Daniel Golden

Investigative reporter for WJAR-TV 10,
Jim Taricani
Journalist and former Globe Spotlight Team editor, Walter Robinson

Investigative reporter for the Providence Journal, Tracy Breton

Boston Globe Columnist and Suffolk University, College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar in Residence, James Carroll

RSVP: 617.573.8236

For up-to-date information and a list of panelists, go to
http://www.suffolk.edu/college/17949.html.

The Rhetoric of New Media

gmboone — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:47:51 +0000

I have written a paper on the interconnections between the rhetorical traditions in classical rhetoric and New Media. Esseentially the traditional cannons of rhetoric- invention, organization, style, delivery and memory- still work in slightly different ways and using different terminology in New Media. Click here to read the paper.

To order a copy of the paper see http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.403

New Media Trends

gmboone — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:08:41 +0000

Online Advertising is growing.

In 2006, all forms of online advertising expenditures reached $16 billion in the United States and $6 billion in Europe. Online advertising growth in the United States is forecast at 18-19 % and European growth is estimated at 25% per year (Stone, 2007

http://followthemedia.com/spots/internetads23012007.htm).