PUBLIC MARKS from vista with tag media

China is the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, Xinhua said, quoting a report on China's media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released the Internet Advertising Revenue Report including final numbers for Q3, Q4, and full year 2005. The report states that Search, Classifieds, Display, and Rich Media all continue to grow at a healthy rate. Overall internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for 2005 totaled $12.5 billion, a new annual record exceeding 2004 by 30%. Q4 2005 internet advertising revenues totaled a record $3.6 billion, representing a 34% increase over same period in 2004.

在互联网时代，尤其在Blog益发普及，全民写作渐成习惯的今天，书面记录的易得性与存留性都已经不是决定因素，同时相对来说，事情发生不久后所写下的所见所闻所感，应当比若干时日后的回忆更确切真实可靠——所以，传统的“访谈”对于口述史是否不再那么重要和唯一？或者说，这种思路依然重要，但是可以补充一些新的形式，例如对数字形式记录（文字、图像、音频、视频）的搜集，或进行电脑中介沟通的“访谈”？当然，传统的face to face因有更多的信息渠道而更利于建立良好沟通，判别信息真伪，至少在当前的媒介技术基础上是如此。

我提出了 blog media 2.0 的概念。它包括几层含义： 1.它承认精英模式的意义，是从 blog media 1.0 基础上发展而来。 2.它也承认用户（读者）创造价值的能力，认同草根模式是未来信息输出的重要力量。 3.blog media 不应该单纯是“播报式”，社区化、社会化、个性化将是未来互联网的形态，blog media 2.0 同样是。 我目前想到的执行方案便是blog media 2.0= blog media 1.0 + digg 模式 + 圈子 。

我在HemiDemi 變臉這一篇裡頭偷渡了一句話：「在HemiDemi上，我終於看見台灣公民新聞的影子了。」 我之所以會這樣想，是因為現在HEMiDEMi的首頁其實已經可以看作一份報紙的頭版，或是一家新聞網站的首頁；HEMiDEMi的系統會把最新的或是最重要的新聞選取前三則放在最明顯的位置，並配合圖片或網站截圖，藉此凸顯其重要性，這和報紙頭版或新聞網站首頁的注意力攫取邏輯是一樣的，但是極大的不同點在於：HEMiDEMi上頭的內容是使用者提供的、資訊的發佈時間是使用者決定的、哪一則消息夠資格登上「熱門書籤」也是使用者集體的判斷，而且資料來源無限寬廣。

It is appropriate then, that a collaboration of creative professionals in Taiwan has been formed under the name ‘Creative Commons Garden’ (ccGarden). ccGarden represents the singers, artists, writers, website content providers, film makers, law professors and media professionals of Taiwan who are committed to developing creative works which will be licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Old media companies are also snapping up internet firms as fast as they can. Most of these are profitable, in contrast to the dotcoms of a few years ago—but only just. On March 6th NBC Universal, a media firm owned by General Electric, spent $600m on iVillage, a website for women which had a profit of $9.5m in 2005. Last year Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation spent more than a billion dollars buying barely profitable internet companies.

由港大新聞及傳播學院學生發起，用blog-hosting的形式，以英文報導及討論本港及相關的新聞議題，系統跟「南方社區文化網絡」接近，算是香港較活躍及認真的獨立網上媒體。

No Sleep Media LLC is an enthusiastic Web 2.0 startup located in Denver, CO. Currently, we are working hard on our flagship product, loopnote. As we near the loopnote launch date, we’ll post some teasers here that will give you a better idea of what loopnote is all about.

作为blog时代的意见领袖，keso是话题的设定者，同时他也是精致信息的提供者。在享用这些信息的同时，KESO的Fans们津津乐道于KESO的个人生活：40元一份的午餐 Pizza，偶然的失窃所带来的娱乐轰动，叼着烟的酷照会被拿来和“包租婆”对比——这份影响力是传统的媒体人所无法企及的，以至于VeryCD（电骡下载网站）要用KESO的名头在Google AdSense上打广告：“关注洪波?关注新互联网创业圈？请同样关注VeryCD.com！”

Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.

12月是一个发榜季节，在大小媒体各种评选榜项如雪花般飞舞的时候，《新周刊》2005大盘点·中国娇子年度新锐榜，以“新新中国第一榜！”的姿态强势开评，凭借年度最大榜的榜样力量来“为新锐加冕”。

Following up on this weekend's mainstream media discussion of Web 2.0 being a better, healthier boom than the original dot-com speculation frenzy, I've had some time to reflect on the ways that Web 2.0 software can be commercially successful. Certainly, the most popular model for most Web 2.0 startups themselves is through mergers and acquisitions. In this model, you typically build a successful service with a unique identity, some hip attitude, and attract a large user base and as long as you've done it cost effectively, the attention base of your users alone probably pays for the acquisition in the eyes of the buyer.

因为最近感到优质Podcast好少，以前的不是听腻了，就是制作人没有定期的作品。就去在刚开始测试的雅虎播客（Yahoo!Podcasts)上面乱逛，看到一个教外国人中文的ChinesePod。听了几辑，觉得很好玩，哇哈哈。

Revolutions don't usually work out quite as planned. And that's what's happening now in the technology world with blogs. They are every bit as important as their boosters said they would be. But in an entirely different way. In the standard theory about technology blogs -- which was the conventional wisdom until a few months ago -- mainstream media were out of touch, elitist or simply ossified, and they would soon be supplanted by a grass-roots army of bloggers working intently at their laptops to speak truth to power.

來自杭州的都市快報！

千龍網所提供的傳播頻道，值得一看！

我是在赴上海參加「中文網誌年會」之前，才知道這份刊物的。

來自北京的京華時報。

想瞭解中國的傳播學術及產業發展嗎？來看看CJR便知分曉！

在信息技术飞速发展的时代，世界从来没有象现在这样离我们如此之近，《国际名刊选摘》收入了《商业周刊》、《福布斯》、《财富》等国外知名杂志或报纸的最新IT文章，希望您能在第一时间了解到行业最新动态和技术发展趋势、分享国外媒体的思想火花

A flurry of big deals in recent weeks provides many new ways for weblogs to turn a profit.

堅持不生產內容，雅虎奇摩卻正在挑戰電視、報紙、廣播等傳統媒體，他們的策略是什麼？雅虎看到的趨勢又是什麼？

继五年前的第一次"亲密接触"之后，今天的中国互联网再度成为风险投资的宠儿。中国风险投资研究院（香港）的最新研究显示，今年1－8月，风险投资重点关注的行业主要集中在互联网、传媒和通信三大产业，其中互联网行业迅速升温，投资案例数位居第一。

因为新闻资源的垄断，它具有了权威性；因为商贾云集的广告招标，它充满了商业性；因为演艺名人的客串，它不缺乏娱乐性——2005年11月18日，中央电视台2006年黄金资源广告招标大会将在北京梅迪亚中心再一次演绎这出在中国广告界独一无二的“豪门盛宴”……