Digitalism’s NetGabber:
The president of Google’s global sales operations and business development, Nikesh Arora, recently announced Google’s decision to encourage non-profit organizations to come up with innovative approaches to journalism in the digital age. The amount proposed to be delivered for the promotion of online journalism is five million dollars in grants.
Any person:
Well, I think thats a great step to encouraging free speech online and ultimately, supporting the virtues of democracy. Gone are the days when you wait and depend on the editor of a powerful newspaper company to select your letter for publication. With online journalism you can publish instantly and reach the world. Now with online journalism, you can actually hear the silent majority. I guess this threatens traditional journalism and the monopoly once enjoyed by traditional media.
Digtalism’s NetGabber:
There is a sense of online jouranlism being inevitably in command, primarily because the internet broke the monopoly bubble. More and more people spend most of their time online. Thats where you want to access news, gather product information, be entertained and be part of various communities.
Any person:
Its all about timeliness, information and geography. Being at the right place at the right time just got so easy for mostly everybody who has access to the internet. Thats an incredible phenomenon, and basically a paradise for advertisers.
Digitalism’s NetGabber:
Well this is it, with the revenue from advertising, the support base for online journalism would only grow. A win win situation for everyone. One would still need the skills to filter through propaganda, and I suppose with online journalism there would be a more uncontrolled sphere of journalistic styles. However with Google investing in promoting programs which provide online journalistic training, there will be competition and the emergence of new standards developed over time. This also would place Google as the Moghul of online journalism with its investment partnership in journalism projects worldwide, its predominance as the world’s most popular search engine, as well as leader in research and development of technological products and its achievement as the benchmark of online success.
Any person:
If for instance, Digitalism’s NetGabber becomes a long tailed keyword, you’ve started a niche in online journalism
Digitalism’s Netgabber:
Google me!