Archive | August, 2008

Huge Difference between Social and Mainstream Media – Speculation vs. Confirmation

By Pat Kitano on August 31, 2008 in Mass Media, Politics, Social Media, Sociology

Yesterday, decidedly liberal Daily Kos posted an article speculating a Thomas Eagleton-like bombshell about Sarah Palin covering up the fact that her Down’s Syndrome son Trig is possibly her grandson, and that Trig was birthed by Sarah Palin’s daughter who was 16 at the time. Although the shocking claim is tabloidish, the fact is the [...]

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Real Time Political Reporting

By Pat Kitano on August 29, 2008 in Mass Media, Politics

The surprise announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican VP candidate highlights the relevancy of different media in reporting breaking news: 1. Twitter breaks the news 2. Concurrently, TV news – MSNBC, CNN, CNBC – gathers initial pundit reactions that generally mirror the Twitter feeds. The online business news sites also report the [...]

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The Big Reader Divide between Mass Media and Social Media

By Pat Kitano on August 25, 2008 in Mass Media, Real Estate

We in the social media implicitly understand that the mainstream media readership are still getting their feet wet when it comes to finding, reading and subscribing to blogs (unless they look like MSM like Huffington Post, or are blogs residing within MSM like the NYT). I discovered a contrary example in a Washington Post article [...]

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How Social Media Corrects Mass Media’s Flawed Messages

By Pat Kitano on August 25, 2008 in Mass Media

Friend Jeff Corbett’s appearance on CNBC’s On The Money program is a good example of how social media players are becoming fixtures in the mass media. The problem Jeff faces in his interview is common with anybody who has interfaced with the soundbite nature of broadcast programming. The mass media understands its audience and will [...]

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The 12-Hour Incubation of a Crowdsource Investment Idea

By Pat Kitano on August 20, 2008 in Venture Capital

What makes the social media intriguing is its facility to provide instant interpretation of random ideas and acts. These acts, adhoc and experimental by nature, generate interest – controversial, amusement, alternative perspective – within a social sphere, which then extends the premise within hours. This kind of micro-media will filter the best ideas, extend them [...]

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The Shock of the New Societal Transparency – Slideshow

By Pat Kitano on August 19, 2008 in Mass Media, Slideshows, Sociology

The Shock of the New Societal Transparency View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: mediatransparent socialmedia)

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Diaspora of Journalists

By Pat Kitano on August 16, 2008 in Mass Media

On Community Funded Reporting site Spot.US, David Cohn reports from Freelance Camp – “an unconference for freelance professionals of all sorts – artists, coders, writers, designers etc.” The most pertinent session for me was aptly titled “How the Changing Nature of Information Affects Information Providers.” It was proposed by a local magazine writer who recently [...]

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