Writing On the Wall For Old Media
See that blue line on the graph? The line that is flat-lining? That blue line represents jobs data for the TV news industry according to Simply Hired. Jobs in that industry are vanishing.
Even though I have written about the slow death of mainstream media for years, this chart visually showing the troubling trend of a profession really drives it home. Thanks to Jim Long’s outstanding blog, Verge New Media. Jim is a “network news cameraman by trade, still clinging on to rapidly diminishing fortunes.”
The more appealing green line represents job data results for Social Network … Web 2.0 … the Digital Revolution. So as the downward job trend slumps across mainstream media, the strong growth in social online media opportunities continues.
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Category: New Media, News Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0
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If by “outstanding” blog, you mean one that’s desperately in need of an updated post, then you nailed it LOL. Thank you for the very kind shout out.
Since you asked and I saw no separate post about twitter, I am putting it here.
1) You can communicate a variety of quoted material– quotes, saying, poetry. (It makes you look knowledgable.)
2) You can link your blog to twitter and put direct links from posts into twitter creating a stream of visitors to your site.
3) There are a lot of interesting groups in twitter. I follow many publishers on twitter. You can hear what they are currently doing up to the moment.
4) A lot of the links put into twitter are for current up to the date information in a specific field. Infodiva and LIS News provide me up to date links to library news.
5) It is very entertaining. Some of the things you find on twitter are really strange, new, and unusual.