Poynter Online - New Media Timeline (2009)

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"Websites 'must be saved for history'." By David Smith, The Observer, Jan. 25, 2009. (See also: "History of the Internet (Video)." Vimeo.)
"Five years of Facebook: How it redefined what we consider 'news'." By Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, Feb. 4, 2009.
"How Tweet It Is." By Will Leitch, New York Magazine, Feb. 8, 2009.
"The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now." By David Pogue, New York Times, Feb. 24, 2009.
"The next Web of open, linked data: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com (Video)." Mar. 13, 2009.
"Woven deep into our lives: World Wide Web at 20 holds sway over most business, communications." By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, Mar. 13, 2009. (See also: "Memorable moments in the history of the World Wide Web.")
"World Wide Web @ 20 (Video)." Cern, Mar. 2009.
"In the Beginning: Top Ten Apple Moments." Time Magazine, Spring 2009.
"The Twitter Platform: 3 Years Old and Ready to Change the World." By Marshall Kirpatrick, Mar. 23, 2009.
"The Twitter Explosion." By Paul Farhi, AJR, Apr./May 2009.
"The end of blogging:
The way we communicate is changing at a breakneck pace. And don't expect it to slow down." By Andy Serwer, Fortune, May 20, 2009.
"Documentary about Web Collaboration." (Video) By Dave Cohn. DigiDave. May 17, 2009.
"The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009." Webdesigner Depot, May 22, 2009.
"50 Best Websites 2009." Time Magazine. 2009.
"Say Everything Video: Who was the First Blogger?" Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Jun. 1, 2009.
"A Brief History Of Social Media." By Brett Borders, Jun. 2, 2009. (Video Posted on YouTube)
"Internet Nears its 40th Anniversary." By Anick Jesdanun, AP/Buffalo News, Aug. 31, 2009.
"Barnes & Noble Launches the 'Nook' E-Reader." By Dan Costa, PC Magazine, Oct. 21, 2009.
"Windows 7 born from Vista's frustrations." By Ina Fried, CNET News, Oct. 22, 2009.
"Social Search from Google and Bing: My 8 Big Concerns." By Jared Newman, PC World, Oct. 22, 2009.
"The Internet at 40." Guardian.co.uk, October 23, 2009.
"Is Today the Internet's 40th Birthday?" By Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News, Oct. 29, 2009.
"Happy 40th Birthday, the Internet: 20 Milestones in the Net's Development." By Tom Chivers and Ian Douglas, Telegraph.co.uk, Oct. 29, 2009.
"40 Years Later, Looking Back At The Internet's Birth (Audio)." By Guy Raz, NPR, Nov. 1, 2009.
"Clay Shirky on Twitter and the social media revolution."
By Karthika Muthukumaraswamy, Online Journalism Blog, Nov. 7, 2009.
"How Blogging Has Changed Over The Last 3 Years (Stats)."
Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb, Nov. 16, 2009.
(See also: "Measuring Engagement of the Social Web: '07-'09." IIya Grigorik, PostRank Blog, Nov. 16, 2009.)
"Did Web 1.0 begin dying in September 2008?"
Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Nov. 21, 2009.
"Ten Predictions For The E-Reader/E-Book Market In 2010." By Sarah Rotman Epps and James McQuivey, PaidContent, Dec. 1, 2009. (See also: "Time Inc. Tries To Get Ahead Of The Color E-Reader Curve." By Staci Kramer, PaidContent, (Video: Sports Illustrated Tablet Demo Posted on Vimeo), Dec. 2, 2009.)
"15 Gadgets That Changed Everything This Decade." Jay Yarow, Business Insider, Dec. 9. 2009.
"2010: The Year of the Tablet." By Nick Bilton, Dec. 23, 2009.
"Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas." By Henry Blodget, The Business Insider, Dec. 26, 2009.
"The Decade In Data." By Oliver J. Chiang, Forbes, Dec. 28, 2009.
Pew Reports:

"Twitter and status updating." Feb. 12, 2009.
"The Mobile Difference." Mar. 25, 2009.
"Online Classifieds." May 22, 2009.
"The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster." Jun. 15, 2009.
"Home Broadband Adoption 2009." Jun.17, 2009.
"Wireless Internet Use." Jul. 22, 2009.
"The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up." Jul. 29, 2009.
"Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back." Aug.19, 2009.
"Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009." Oct. 21, 2009.

THE MEDIA

"...The economic model largely responsible for financing journalism in the old media, advertising, will not do so in the new. Online advertising over all began to slow down..." (Source: "The State of the News Media: Online Section." Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2009.)
"How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web." By Jack Shafer, Slate, Jan. 6, 2009.
"Twitter User Becomes Star in US Airways Crash." By Lauren Johnston and Matt Marrone, New York Daily News, Jan. 16, 2009.
"Innovation in Inauguration Coverage." By Megan Taylor, MediaShift, Jan. 20, 2009. (See also: "Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov." By Macon Phillips, The White House Web site, Jan. 20, 2009.)
"Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable." By Clay Shirky, Mar. 13, 2009.
"Arthur Sulzberger & Walter Isaacson on making money online -- in 1995." By Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, Mar. 20, 2009.
"How the web changed the economics of news -- in all media." By Paul Bradshaw, Jun. 4, 2009.
"When, how, and why did you go online?" By Steve Yelvington, Jun. 6, 2009.
"Rating the Top 25 Newspaper Websites 2009." 24/7 Wall St., Jun. 15, 2009.
"Battle for hearts -- and screens -- of the world
Media restricted in Iran, so news of protests blooms on Twitter, Facebook." MSNBC, Jun. 16, 2009.
"Internet News Tops All Other Media Channels Combined." BNET, Jun. 21, 2009.
"Twitter, Facebook prove invaluable as Michael Jackson story exploded in media." By Eric Deggans, The Feed, Jun. 26, 2009.
"How Early Newspaper-to-Web Technology Crippled News Industry's Thinking." By Amy Gahran. E-Media Tidbits, Jul. 23, 2009.
"The Newspaper-Web War." By Jack Shafer. Slate. Aug. 3, 2009.
"Google Releases News-Reading Service."
By Miguel Helft, New York Times, Sep. 14, 2009.
"70 Percent of Journalists Use Social Networks to Assist in Reporting." By Jeremy Porter, Journalistics, Sep. 24, 2009.
"Let's Talk: Journalism and Social Media." Nieman Reports, Fall 2009.
"Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World?" By Andrew Alexander. Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2009.

"NPR's New Social Media Guidelines." By Alicia Shepard. NPR, Oct. 15, 2009.
"Pew Survey on Twitter Users Suggests News Strategies." Howard Finberg, Poynter Online, Oct. 21, 2009.
"New York Times, still uncertain on charging, sets seven digital priorities." Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, Oct. 21, 2009.
"Mary Meeker's Awesome Internet Presentation From Web 2.0." By Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider, Oct. 21, 2009.
"Happy Birthday, Digital Advertising!" By Frank D'Angelo, Advertising Age, Oct. 26, 2009.
"Florida Killing Shows Challenges of Contacting Sources on Facebook."
By Al Tompkins, Al's Morning Meeting, Oct. 27, 2009.
"Fort Hood: A First Test for Twitter Lists." Megan Garber, CJR, Nov. 6, 2009.
"Five Magazine and Newspaper Publishers Introduce Their Digital Newsstand." Richard Perez-Pena, Media Decoder, New York Times, Dec. 8, 2009.
"The Use of Twitter by America's Newspapers."
Allen Rindfuss, The Bivings Report, Dec. 17, 2009.
"Sony's new e-reader to offer subscriptions to Wall Street Journal and New York Post."
Emma Heald, Editors Weblog, Dec. 18, 2009.
"The Tablet Hype." Jack Shafer, Slate, Dec. 22, 2009.

Awards

2009 Editor & Publisher
EPpy awards
(Archived list of winners)
2009 Webby Awards
(Archived list of winners)
2009 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards
(Archived list of winners)
(Archived list of finalists)

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