Clare's Place

1.) In the article, Iran, the Citizen Media and Media Attention, How do you think the election of Obama would have been different if the same issues with social media that are going on in Iran were happening in the US?

2.)In the article, Doubting Twitter, don’t you think that if the Iranians aren’t able to use Twitter to start protests, they will find many other ways to get people together to protest?

3.)In the article, Can Media Profict From Twitter’s Big Week, do you think some journalists that work for newspapers or news stations will lose their jobs due to all the news stories on twitter and the internet that are better than the journalists’?

4.) In the article, Is Twitter the New CNN of the New Media Generation, do you think that there will be more false news stories due to journalists finding some of their news on Twitter?

1.) In Shirky’s article, he talks about Ontology.  I have never even heard of this term.  Is it really that important, and he doesn’t really  give a good definition of what it actually means?

2.)In the article about Folksonomies, the author talks about all the positive aspects of folksonomies.  Do you think folksonomies have any negative outcomes?

3.) In the article, Tagging and why it matters, doesn’t it make you think that in the next few years there is going to be way too much of tagging going on that it will start to become confusing?

1.) In the article, Podcasting Goes Mainstream, the author talks about how the most downloaders of Podcasts are between the ages of 18-29.  Why do you think older people are not as interested in podcasts?

2.) The article, Podcasting: Significant Growth by 2010., was written in 2005.  Was the author right in his predictions about the growth of podcasting in 2010? 3.). In chapter 6 the author talks about podcasting. Do you think musicians and artists lose money due to free podcasting with sites such as pandora? 4.) In chapter 7 it says that if marketers ignore forums it can be hazardous to your brand? Do you really think it is that hazardous? Do you really need forums?