Ben Smith, The Boy Wonder of Buzzfeed – NYTimes.com

It is an important moment in media when we can pause and imagine that the Walter Cronkite moment has passed since Mr. Cronkite’s reign as “The Most Trusted Man in America” from 1962 to 1980 (look it up in Wikipedia, of course).

Media has changed and, along with Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) “an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur” (Wikipedia, again!) there is a new buzz and media elite that will not play the same role in our information needy lives but will transform how we see the world around us nevertheless…

These new media movers and shakers are turning all that internet media buzz into real influence and Brink Trucks full of money.  The world is changing, the www world that is, while we stand on the ground and in the other world which now seems as anachronistic as Cronkite and as one dimensional as the old TV world of NBC, ABC and CBS…

Ironically, this new “younger world” of media pundits and moguls is not as easy to keep up with as the wave of technology and internet use changes as fast as the millionaires who lead it, Zuckerberg just moved into second place in the “whole world” (WWW and the one we stand on).

Also see: Amount donated in 2012: about $498.8-million

Beneficiary: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Background: Mr. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, and Dr. Chan is a pediatrician.

Mark Zuckerberg, 28, and Priscilla Chan, 27, gave 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at about $498.8-million, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to support education and health programs.

 

This is the young billionaire’s second large donation. In 2010, he pledged $100-million to establish Startup: Education, a foundation to support programs working to improve public schools in Newark, N.J.

Also visit: http://policyabcs.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/no-2-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-philanthropy-50-the-chronicle-of-philanthropy-connecting-the-nonprofit-world-with-news-jobs-and-ideas/#comment-2183

 

“BenSmithing is now an official term!” shouted Michael Hastings, a BuzzFeed reporter and author, at his book release party in Chelsea on a subfreezing night in January. The roomful of young reporters, ad salesmen and b-list political gadflies (Meghan McCain turned heads all night) hooted in

 

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Child trafficking: A cruel trade | The Economist

Our ability to communicate via the internet is pervading every corner of the globe and transforming societies open and close.  China is known for being one of the oldest bureaucracies closed to the so called West.  The Internet, however, seems to be growing inside China and providing new types of hope never before considered inside Chinese walls.  The once great wall now seems permeable by internet culture and international digital currents which China does not seem able to avoid.  The following Economist article sheds some light on this phenomenon:

“THE Chinese new year, which this year falls on February 10th, is a time of family reunions. But Xiao Chaohua is preparing to spend his sixth new year without his son, who was …”

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Social Media Debate Sentiment Less Critical of Obama than Polls and Press Are | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

Social media came to a much different initial verdict about the first presidential debate than did the early polls and the conventional press, according to an analysis of the conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

On both Twitter and Facebook, the conversation was much more critical of Mitt Romney than it was of Barack Obama. And when the criticism of one candidate and praise of another are combined, the conversation on Twitter leaned Obama’s way. On Facebook it was something of a draw.

Only in blogs, which tended to offer more of a summary of the event than a moment-to-moment reaction, did the sentiment resemble that of instant polls or press analysis, which have tended to see Romney as having the better of the debate.

For both candidates in social media, however, praise of their performance in general was hard to come by.

Twitter

On Twitter, an examination of 5.9 million opinions posted from the beginning of the debate through the next morning finds more of the conversation leaned Obama’s way (35%) than Romney’s (22%). But those who favored Obama tweeted not so much to praise him as to criticize his opponent. Of the entire conversation, 9% praised the president and 26% was critical of Romney. Of those favoring Romney, 7% praised him and 15% criticized Obama.

Not every tweet about the debate was an evaluation of candidate performance. Another 17% of the conversation involved people offering jokes with no clear opinion about either contender. A smaller component of the conversation, 9%, involved people sharing information or news. And 16% of the conversation talked about other things, such as evaluating the moderator, Jim Lehrer, or people tweeting that they were watching the debate-or not watching.

If the conversation that did not evaluate the candidates is removed from the tally, the Twitter numbers would show 61% leaning Obama’s way and 39%, Romney’s.

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Klout and Why the Design of Social Networking Matters : The New Yorker

Social media has a fraught relationship with neurosis. Obsessive people are essential to sites like Facebook and Twitter. They add energy and buzz. Their identities get tied up with their avatars, and that in itself makes …

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Facebook Is Using You – NYTimes.com

LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn’t have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones. Facebook’s inventory consists of personal data — yours and …

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Investors Get the Chance to Assess Facebook’s Potential – NYTimes.com

With a huge initial public offering on the runway, Facebook has shown that it pays to have friends. New investors will now have to decide what they are willing to pay to be …

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Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television? : The New Yorker

On a rainy night in late November, Robert Kyncl was in Google’s New York City offices, on Ninth Avenue, whiteboarding the future of TV. Kyncl holds a senior position at YouTube, which Google owns. He is the architect of the single largest cultural …

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For Libraries and Publishers, an E-Book Tug of War – NYTimes.com

LAST year, Christmas was the biggest single day for e-book sales by HarperCollins. And indications are that this year’s Christmas Day total will be even higher, given the …

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How to Time Your Facebook Posts to Reach the Most Fans

I get asked all the time, “How frequently should I post on my Facebook page? When is the best time to post?”

Answer: Post whenever the most recent status update for your page stops showing up in your fans’ News Feeds.

If you post often, you will see an immediate spike in News Feed impressions, but it’s generally not worth the cost in lost fans. When your fans see two status updates from you in their News Feeds, they’ll likely get annoyed, and will consequently unsubscribe or un-fan. There are few exceptions to this rule.

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5 Ways to Connect to the Local Food Movement Online

The local food movement is taking the world by storm, as more people learn about the numerous benefits of …

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WordPress.com Comments Gain Support for Facebook & Twitter Logins

Visitors to WordPress.com blogs can now leave comments with their Twitter or Facebook accounts.

It’s a small new feature on the surface, but it opens up a lot more commenting opportunities for WordPress.com blogs. Third-party commenting systems such as …

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Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution (In Realtime)

Although most are still shaking their heads in wonder, TECH CRUNCH does a nice job of explaining how SOCIAL MEDIA is transforming how the global village communicates… Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution (In Realtime)

Erick Schonfeld

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While you can debate about the exact role of social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, in Egypt’s revolution, there is no question about its role as a new global media channel. Where once people tuned into CNN to watch governments collapse, this time around they tuned into Al Jazeera on the Web (at least in English speaking countries lie the U.S. where Al Jazeera English is not widely carried on cable systems).

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