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SERVICES & TECH Google purchases the blogging software company Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger, in February 2003. "An international team set new Internet2 land speed records by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometers (more than 6,800 miles) of network in less than one minute." (Source: Archives for I2-News) "The UCLA Internet Report: Year Three." Center for the Digital Future (formally at UCLA), Feb. 2003. The MySpace social networking Web site is officially launched in March 2003. Skype, a peer-to-peer Internet telephony network, is founded. (In 2005 Skype is acquired by eBay.) "The Internet and the Iraq war." Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 1, 2003. The Apple iTunes music store opens for Mac users on April 28, 2003. iTunes and the iTunes music store are available for Windows users in October 2003. (The first iPod was introduced on October 23, 2001.) "Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee." BBC, May 4, 2003. "Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing." OJR, July 23, 2003. Sobig.F worm infects computers around the world in August 2003. The Technorati blog search engine is launched. The popularity of RRS (Rich Site Summary) continues to grow. RRS was developed to help work around e-mail distribution problems caused by spam. The Furl social bookmarking site is founded in 2003. "The growing power of Weblogs, or 'blogs', has hardly gone unnoticed. Bloggers have been credited with helping to topple Trent Lott and Howell Raines, with inflaming debate over the Iraq war, and with boosting presidential hopeful Howard Dean." (Source: "A Brief History of Weblogs." CJR, Sept./Oct. 2003.) LinkedIn social / professional networking site is launched. "Introduction to Mobile Blogging." Sun Microsystems, Oct. 2003. "Spam: How it is Hurting Email and Degrading Life on the Internet." Pew Internet & American Life Project, Oct. 22, 2003. "America's Online Pursuits: The Changing Picture of Who's Online and What They Do." Pew Internet & American Life Project, Dec. 22, 2003.		THE MEDIA "Here Comes 'We Media': Tech-Savvy Readers Want In on the Conversation." CJR, Jan./Feb. 2003. News Example: Feb. 1, 2003 -- "Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster." (Source: Poynter's Links to the News) News Example: March 19, 2003 -- "Reporting on the Iraq War." (Source: Poynter's Links to the News) "We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information." The Media Center at API, 2003. "At a time when access to the high-speed Internet is getting easier and do-it-yourself publishing software abounds, Weblogs are cyberspace's quick-moving, multilinked, interactive venues of choice for millions of people wanting to share information and opinions, commentary and news." (Source: "Weblogs and Journalism." Nieman Reports, July 2003, pages 59-98.) "Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years." OJR, Sept. 9, 2003. "Part Two." Awards The 2003 Editor & Publisher EPpy awards (Archived list of winners) The 2003 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards (Archived list of winners) (Archived list of finalists) The 2003 NAA Digital Edge Awards (Archived list of winners) 2003 Webby Awards (Archived list of winners) Statistics "Nearly 1,500 North American daily newspapers have launched web sites." "Worldwide, there are more than 5,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online." (Source: NAA's 2003 Facts about Newspapers) Additional Resources See Also: New Media Bibliography and other Poynter resources about online journalism

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