Future of Media

Googlezon will run a new database that will personalize the news for consumers in the year 2014. The program, Google EPIC, will feature news that is personalized to consumers search habits online.

In the article, linked here, discusses how Googlezon will affect the people of the world.

In todays world the advancements in technology like smart phones, have allowed journalist to capture moments in real time and share the story behind it.

Media is transforming the lives of the people everyday because of how fast the news gets out. Journalist have a variety of ways to get the news out to the audience but with Google EPIC the audience does not have to search for the news that fits their own personality because Google EPIC will do that automatically by following the audiences search habits online.

Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson have envisioned what the future of media might be. A preview of the future, EPIC 2014, shows how individuals will have an information database tailored to consumers needs.

Why do we need the news tailored to audience? Are consumers becoming lazy? Is the technology in the media becoming to advanced?

Like it or not the future of media is now and coming. This will created jobs for freelance journalist to help write and regulate what is uploaded onto Google EPIC.

With Google EPIC the people do not have to interrupt the news, the news will interrupt the people.

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Throwback Technology in Times of Need

As most of you have heard that Egypt has practically been shut down from technology. Protestors are running amok in Cairo freeing themselves from the rules of President Hosni Mubarak. They're calling for the resignation of their president who has made their lives more complicated when it comes to providing and feeding their families. There are many images of the chaos in Cairo being broadcasted via Internet by the region's popular satellite channel Al Jazeera; Protestors are seen ignoring curfew, running through the streets, clashing with tear gas-wielding police, and even setting buildings on fire.

This event is not just a big deal in the country of Egypt; Mohamed Nanabhay, the head of Al Jazeera online, said via Twitter that nearly 45% of the traffic to the site's Egypt coverage has come from the United States. You may also view coverage of the live video on CNN's website.

While us Americans watch from the "sidelines", Egyptians are finding ways to communicate around the Internet blockage; they're currently using old-fashioned landlines (yeah those still exist!), faxes and even ham radio. People are also being offered dial-up from Telecomix News Agency and activists have been recieving morse code. For all you 21st century technology junkies, yes all those things still exist and no matter how painfully slow they seem to you and me, anything is better than nothing.

Photo Credit: Ramy Raoof via Creative Commons.

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Technology and journalism converge at Newseum

The front pages of newspapers after Obama's victory
on an inside wall of the Newseum

Hewlett-Packard and the Newseum will become founding partners and are encouraging the rapidly changing technology and media worlds as they converge.

HP has generously offered $5 million to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. in an effort to create a journalism technology exhibit.

The exhibit will incorporate a live "Twitter-like"  news feed on touch-activated walls for which museum goers can interact.

This will allow a large array of museum goers to learn about the uses of media and how it affects them in order to spark the interests of all age groups and backgrounds.

Shelby Coffey, a Newseum trustee and former editor of the Los Angeles Times said the exhibit will be designed "so we'll be able to change things within it" as quickly as possibly and in time with the fast-paced changes in technology.

The more I pay attention to news about the media and journalism, the more I see it coinciding with advances in technology. There is an obvious correlation between the two and I found it to be clever that HP has  employed their own resources to better educate the population.

HP has realized the growing uses of technology in the media world and this large donation is evidence of just that. McKinney pointed out that "our customers use our technology to access that kind of information."

McKinney hopes the exhibit will represent coverage of breaking news in similar ways that live streams like Twitter have done. At the same time, it will educate viewers about being wary of the accuracy of some social-media sources. Not everything you read on the Internet is true.

This generation of journalists will likely benefit from the exhibit because the majority have grown up using technology to gain a competitive advantage.

More than anything, it's common sense that says journalists are going to be moving right along with advances in technology. It's encouraging to me and I'm sure many other journalists that museums such as the Newseum are staying as relevant as media says they should.

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