Thanks as always to Steve Rubel for aggregating all the stuff on the web that I care about. Recently he linked to a write-up of a study about Blackberry addiction. I was pleased to see the answer to ""chain you to work more
than they liberate you" came up almost exactly in thirds between agreed, neutral, and disagreed. I'm in the 'disagreed' camp. For me, my Blackberry helps me handle my day, and I don't mean handle as in work deep in to the night. I have a life and the Blackberry actually helps me unchain from the desk and hit the streets for actual contact with human beings. I'm sure the word Crackberry was coined...by a publicist. More on that when I find the story about companies pooling funds to put out negative video news releases.
The Journal revealed an emerging PR tactic on Friday in this story about Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsvine, and Reddit. I have experience with this, as well as participating in Slashdot conversations. More commentary TK.
It's ironic there are no "socialize this" buttons at the bottom of the story. I'd like to add to my Del.icio.us the easy way.
--Jason Chupick
It goes to show how difficult it can be to predict which segments of the media are going to die, or going to flourish. I believe the local papers and local TV affiliates are coming around in a big way. A couple of years ago I thought the confluence of Craigslist and news aggregators had eaten their lunch. The Newark Star-Ledger, technically my lifetime hometown paper, launched a consumer-generated video blog, or vlog recently.
This brought a huge smile to my face when I saw it on Beet.TV this morning. Jersiana (see Weird N.J. magazine) and stubborn Jersey pride can only be understood by those born here. We love Cory Booker, can forgive Jim McGreevy, understand the opening credits of the Sopranos, and cheer the recently-incredible Rutgers football team. I'm putting this vlog on a feed. I can't wait to see what the scrappy bretheren upload in the coming months. To quote the classic Jersey 101.5 FM tagline: "Not New York, Not Philadelphia, proud to be NEW JERSEY".
