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SERVICES & TECH EPIC 2015, the updated version of the flash movie,  EPIC 2014, is released by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson in Jan. 2005. "Guest Writer Simon Waldman: The Importance of Being Permanent." PressThink, Jan. 7, 2005. "Chill, blogophiles; you're not the first to do what you're doing." USA Today, Jan. 26, 2005. "Personal Radio Via Podcasting Grows More Popular." NPR, Jan. 31, 2005. YouTube is founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim on Feb. 15, 2005.  "Microsoft @ 30." History Timeline, Microsoft, 2005. "A short history of blogging." The Blog Herald, March 6, 2005. Chicagocrime.org, one of the original map mashups, is started by Adrian Holovaty in May 2005. (See also: "In memory of chicagocrime.org." Adrian Holovaty.com, January 31, 2008.) "Dazzle, Yes. But Can They Blog? For Arianna Huffington, The Stars Come Out to Post." Washington Post, May 9, 2005. The NowPublic user-generated participatory news network is founded during 2005. Google Earth is launched on June 28, 2005. "What MySpace means to Murdoch." BBC, July 19, 2005. "Mix, Match, And Mutate: Mash-ups -- homespun combinations of mainstream services -- are altering the Net." BusinessWeek, July 25, 2005. Soundslides, a multimedia program created by Joe Weiss is released during 2005. "Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web." Yahoo!, 2005. "We Are the Web." Kevin Kelly, Wired, August 2005. "Craig Newmark: The Net's Free Force." BusinessWeek, Aug. 15, 2005. "Personal Computer Museum Ontario Canada Opening." Rogers Television, Sept. 2005. Posted on YouTube. "Flash journalism: Professional practice today." Mindy McAdams, OJR, Sept. 22, 2005. "What Is Web 2.0." O'Reilly, Sept. 30, 2005. The Apple iTunes store begins offering videos and TV shows in October 2005. (The iTunes music store opened for Mac users on April 28, 2003.) Ning is launched in October 2005. Ning helps users create their own social networks. The company was founded a year earlier in October 2004 by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. (In 1993 Andreessen lead the group of computer programmers who developed the Mosaic browser.) "The Trend Spotter." (Profile of Tim O'Reilly.) Steven Levy, Wired, October 2005. "CNET News.com's Blog 100." CNET News, Oct. 5, 2005. "Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod." New York Times, Oct. 10, 2005. "An Evening with Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum." Online Video and transcript, Computer History Museum, October 19, 2005. Yahoo! purchases the social bookmarking service, del.icio.us, in December 2005. "The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years." PC World, Dec. 24, 2005. "The Year of the Podcast." Slate, Dec. 30, 2005       Additional Resources Pew Internet & American Life Project Reports: "The State of Blogging." Jan. 2, 2005. "The Future of the Internet." Jan. 9, 2005. "A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life." Jan. 25, 2005. " Public Awareness of Internet Terms." July 20, 2005. "Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing." Sept. 21, 2005. "Digital Divisions." Oct. 5, 2005.		THE MEDIA "Look into cyberspace and the picture for journalism seems fractured. There is real hope in the numbers of people who seek news online, particularly the young, a group that shows scant interest in traditional media. The capability of people to get what they want when they want it, and to manipulate it, edit it and seek more depth, could bring a needed revival to journalism. The economic numbers are also growing - and dramatically - each year." (Source: "The State of the News Media: Online Section." Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2005.) "Blog-Gate." CJR, Jan./Feb. 2005. "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds." Kaiser Foundation, March 2005. "Nando Name Fades Away." Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog, March 1, 2005. "New News' Retrospective: Is Online News Reaching its Potential?." OJR, March 24, 2005. "Online to the future." Ten year anniversary of the Australian newspaper Web site, "The Age." April 19, 2005.  "Papers Turn to 'Podcasting' In Bid to Draw More Readers." Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2005. NBC News anchor Brian Williams begins his new blog, The Daily Nightly on May 31, 2005. News Example: July 7, 2005 -- "London Bombing." (Source: Poynter's Links to the News) News Example: August/September 2005 -- "Hurricane Katrina." (Source: Poynter's Page One Today) CBS News begins its new blog, Public Eye on Sept. 12, 2005. (Later, on Jan. 3, 2006, ABC World News Tonight anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff will begin their new blog, The World Newser. Charles Gibson, when he becomes the new anchor,  contributes to the blog.) "Ten Years of Salon" Salon, Nov. 14, 2005 Awards The 2005 Editor & Publisher EPpy awards (Archived list of winners) The 2005 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards (Archived list of winners) (Archived list of finalists) The 2005 NAA Digital Edge Awards (Archived list of winners) (Archived list of finalists) 2005 Webby Awards (Archived list of winners) Statistics "In 2005, unique visitors to newspaper Web sites represented on average more than one-third (46 million) of all Internet users over the course of a month. Unique visitors jumped 21 percent from January 2005 to December 2005, and page views increased by 43 percent over that period." (Source: NAA's The Source) Additional Resources See Also: New Media Bibliography and other Poynter resources about online journalism

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