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SERVICES, TECH & SOCIAL

"Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us."
Mike Wesch, Posted on YouTube, Jan. 31, 2007.
"How the Internet Took Over." USA Today, 2007.
We Media Miami Converence. Feb. 7-9, 2007.
"Blog History." Liz Donovan, Behind the News, April 9, 2007. (See also: "Blogs turn 10 -- who's the father?" Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, CNET News, March 20, 2007.)
"Saving Our Digital Heritage."
Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman, Washington Post, May 16, 2007.
"Knight News Challenge First-Year Winners Announced."
Knight Foundation, May 23, 2007.
(See also: list of winners from newschallenge.org and E-Media Tidbits series index.)
"Fiftieth Anniversary of First Digital Image Marked." National Institute of Standards and Technology, May 24, 2007.
(See also: a copy of the 1957 first digital image.) Although professional photographers began experimenting with digital photography in 1979, the Associated Press and Kodak introduced the NC2000, the first digital camera specifically designed for photojournalists, in 1994.
"VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Interview." All Things Digital conference, May 31, 2007.
The Seesmic video discussion site is founded by Loic Le Meur.
The Apple iPhone is released on June 29, 2007. (The first iPod was introduced in 2001.)
"The Evolution of Web Widgets." Alex Iskold, Read/WriteWeb, July 11, 2007.
"Happy Blogiversary." Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2007. (See also: "Slideshow: Blogs: Then and Now.")
"The history of blogging founding-myths -- based solely on what I can remember off the top of my head." Rex Hammock, Rexblog.com, July 15, 2007.
"The E Decade: Was I right about the dangers of the Internet in 1997?"
David Shenk, Slate, July 25, 2007.
"Albuquerque extols its role in PC revolution." Daniel Terdiman, CNET News, July 31, 2007.
"See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign." John Borland, Wired, August 14, 2007.
"Compact disc hits 25th birthday." BBC, August 17, 2007.
"Google News Becomes A Publisher." Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, August 31, 2007. (See also: Google News Blog)
"Found in (My)Space. Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are valuable sources of information for journalists." Jason Spencer, AJR, Aug./Sept. 2007.
"Citizen Media Milestones." J.D. Lasica, Social Media, Sept. 10, 2007.
In an online-only presidential debate and mashup presented by Yahoo! News (in partnership with The Huffington Post and Slate) the eight Democratic candidates field users' questions. Phase one of the online debate was completed on Sept. 12, 2007.
"The Latest News Headlines -- Your Vote Counts." "What would a world in which citizens set the news agenda rather than editors look like? A new PEJ study comparing user-news sites, like Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit, with mainstream news outlets provides some initial answers." Sept. 12, 2007.
"Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25." MSNBC/AP, Sept. 18, 2007. (See also: "Smiley: 25 Years Old and Never Looked Happier!" Carnegie Mellon University, Sept. 2007)
"Looking ahead to the 'iPod moment' for newspapers." Mindy McAdams, Teaching Online Journalism, Sept. 21, 2007. (See also: "Meme: The iPod Moment.")
"One Web Day and Tim Berners-Lee." Posted on YouTube, Sept. 24, 2007. (See also: "Welcome to One Web Day.")
"Bloggers in Burma keep world informed during military crackdown." Richard S. Ehrlich, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2007. (See also: e-mail reports sent to the BBC.)
"Information R/evolution."
Mike Wesch, Posted on YouTube, Oct. 12, 2007.
"2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years." Richard MacManus, Read/WriteWeb, Oct. 23, 2007.
"Google Tech Talks: The Web That Wasn't." Alex Wright, Posted on YouTube, Oct. 23, 2007.
"Facebook and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance: Two companies expand advertising deal to cover international markets, Microsoft to take equity stake in Facebook." Microsoft, Oct. 24, 2007.
"ICANN Community Thanks Vint Cerf for Extraordinary Efforts." ICANN, Oct. 31, 2007. ("ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers.)
"MySpace Joins Google's OpenSocial." Mike Shields, Mediaweek, Nov. 5, 2007. (See also: Google's OpenSocial and Fox Interactive Media's Myspace.)
"24 from 94, How Far We've Come." CollegeHumor.com video. Posted on TechCrunch, Nov. 10, 2007.
"The Best Inventions of the Year: Computers." Time Magazine, Nov. 12, 2007.
"Amazon Kindle Review: Igniting Interest in E-Books?" Melissa J. Perenson, PC World, Nov. 20, 2007. (See also: "The joys of curling up with a good digital reading device."
Steve Silberman, Wired, July 1998.)
"Giant Global Graph." Tim Berners-Lee, DIG (Decentralized Information Group), Nov. 21, 2007. (See also: November 2007 CNET video of Berners-Lee, who created the Web prototype in 1990.)
"Laptops Offer High-tech Hope in Developing Countries." Jeffrey Brown, PBS Online NewsHour, Nov. 22, 2007. (See also: One Laptop per Child Web site)
"Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25." Daniel Terdiman, CNET News. Dec. 10, 2007. (The Commodore 64 computer was introduced in August 1982. See also: CNET video.)
"Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1." The Richter Scales, Posted on YouTube, Dec. 17, 2007.
"How the Queen became very well connected. In a bid to appeal to the internet generation, the royals launch their own YouTube channel." Caroline Davies, Observer/Guardian, Dec. 23, 2007.
"Blogs Celebrate 10th Anniversary." NPR, Dec. 24, 2007.
"A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development." Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, Dec. 28, 2007. (See also: New Media Timeline 1994)
"Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web." Dec. 2007. (Video posted on TED.com.)

Pew Internet & American Life
Project Reports:

"Tagging." Jan. 31, 2007.
"Wireless Internet Access."
Feb. 25, 2007.
"Don't Blame Me: It's the Phone's Fault!" June 20, 2007.
"Online Video." July 25, 2007.
"Parent and Teen Internet Use." Oct. 24, 2007.
"Why We Don't Know Enough About Broadband in the U.S." Nov. 14, 2007.
"Digital Footprints." Dec. 16, 2007.
"Teens and Social Media." Dec. 19. 2007.

THE MEDIA

"....the Internet as a platform for news continued to expand and mature, with more options offered to citizens than ever before. But with that have come nuances, some shaking out, and signs that not all elements of online news are growing equally."
(Source: "The State of the News Media: Online Section." Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2007.)
"Bloggers in the Courtroom a New Twist in Coverage." NPR, Jan. 14, 2007.
"Apple Pro Profile: Washington Post.com." Apple, Feb. 2007.
The Poynter Institute releases some of the results from its EyeTrack07 research study on print and online news reading. March 2007.
"The future of newspapers? Asking the past." Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, March 29, 2007.
"In tragedy, digital media came into its own: Cell phone cameras, blogs, text messages key in early (Va. Tech Shooting) reporting." Mackenzie Carpenter, Post-Gazette, April 18, 2007. (See also: Poynter's Page One Today)
"Journalism isn't dying, it's reviving." Dan Gillmor, San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 2007.
"The Point / Journalism's future is in global dialogue." Mark Bowden, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 2007.
"Playing on TV's Turf: Newspapers are ramping up their online video offerings. Will that endanger local TV news?" Deborah Potter, AJR, June/July 2007.
"The Daily Telegraph Case: Multimedia Newsroom Integration." London, June 26, 2007. Posted on YouTube.
CNN and YouTube host their first presidential candidates debate together. July 23, 2007.
"The iPhone will impact mobile journalism, news consumption." Mark Briggs, Journalism 2.0, July 29, 2007. (See also: "The iPhone Is a Breakthrough Handheld Computer." Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2007)
"Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet." Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center, August 2007.
"Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions." Mark Glaser, MediaShift, August 24, 2007.
"Consent Decree with the Open Web Shuts Down Times Select." Jay Rosen, PressThink, Sept. 18, 2007.
"Don't blame the Internet, or the owners." Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Sept. 28, 2007.
"MarketWatch: Celebrating 10 Years Online." David Callaway, MarketWatch, Oct. 2007.
"Is This the End of News?" Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff, Oct. 2007.
"Your Duty to Read the Paper: If we believe in a future of journalism, we've got to pitch in." Roy Peter Clark, Poynter Online, Oct. 10, 2007.
Online News Association Conference, Oct. 17-19, 2007.
"Tracking Fire Coverage." Julie Moos, Poynter Online, Oct. 24, 2007. (See also: "CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?" Amy Gahran, Contentious.com)
"Teaching Journalism in the Digital Age." Nieman Reports, Fall 2007.
"Remarks by Tom Curley, President of AP." Knight-Bagehot Dinner, Nov. 1, 2007.
"A Cautionary Tale for Old Media." Steve Hamm, BusinessWeek, Nov. 5, 2007. (See also: Reporter's Journal slide show.)
"Multimedia News." Peter Horrocks, BBC News: The Editors, Nov. 12, 2007. (Linked to from: "BBC News reorganizes into multimedia newsroom." Jonathan Dube, CyberJournalist, Nov.15, 2007.)
"A Look Back from 2018." Howard Finberg, Poynter Online, Nov. 14, 2007.
"Shocker: A Few Students Still Read Print Newspapers." Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits, Nov. 14, 2007.
"Data as journalism, journalism as data." Rich Gordon, Readership Institute, Nov. 14, 2007.
"Doonesbury takes aim at MSM political reporters who blog." Romenesko, Nov. 19, 2007. (Links to Howard Kurtz's "Media Backtalk" and Doonesbury@Slate.)
"ABC News Joins Forces With Facebook. New Facebook Application Includes 2008 Presidential Campaign Reporting, Forums." ABC News, Nov. 26, 2007.
"10 MediaShifting Moments of 2007." Mark Glaser, MediaShift, Dec. 21, 2007.
"Read All About It: How newspapers got into such a fix, and where they go from here." Paul E. Steiger, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 2007.
2007 News Examples:
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January; February; March;
April; May; June; July; August; September; October;
November-December.

Awards
The 2007 Editor & Publisher EPpy awards
(Archived list of winners

The 2007 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards
(Archived list of winners)
(Archived list of finalists)
The 2007 NAA
Digital Edge Awards
(Archived list of winners)
2007 NPPA Best of Photojournalism:
Web Site Winners
(Archived list of winners)
2007 Webby Awards
(Archived list winners)
2007 APME Online
Convergence Awards
Washington Post
Roanoke Times
Lawrence Journal-World
2007 SND.ies Awards
(Press release PDF)

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