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- “The readers themselves are coming up with excellent journalism, via their own Web logs, mail lists, and other content….Evolving electronic gear will keep blurring the lines. Camera-equipped mobile phones are going to create all kinds of interesting new views, for example….And the business model for interactive news is deeply uncertain.” (Dan Gillmor, Columbia Journalism Review, Jan. 2003)
- Google purchases the blogging software company Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger, in February 2003.
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“An international team set new Internet2 land speed records by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometers (more than 6,800 miles) of network in less than one minute.” (Source: Archives for I2-News) -
- The MySpace social networking Web site is officially launched in March 2003.
- The Apple iTunes music store opens for Mac users on April 28, 2003. iTunes and the iTunes music store are available for Windows users in October 2003. (The first iPod was introduced on October 23, 2001.)
- “Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee.”
BBC, May 4, 2003. - On July 15, 2003 the Mozilla Foundation is launched when AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape.
- “Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing.”
OJR, July 23, 2003. - Almost half of adult Internet users publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, and share files online. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)
- Sobig.F worm infects computers around the world in August 2003.
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“The growing power of Weblogs, or ‘blogs’, has hardly gone unnoticed. Bloggers have been credited with helping to topple Trent Lott and Howell Raines, with inflaming debate over the Iraq war, and with boosting presidential hopeful Howard Dean.” (Source: “ A Brief History of Weblogs.” CJR, Sept./Oct. 2003.) -
In September 2003 the delicious social bookmarking Web service is launched. - “Introduction to Mobile Blogging.”
Sun Microsystems, Oct. 2003. - The LinkedIn social/professional networking site, the Technorati blog search engine, the Skype peer-to-peer Internet telephone network, and the Furl social bookmarking site are launched during 2003.
- During 2003 Google introduces AdSense, which shares ad revenue with sites that agree to feature targeted third-party ads.
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The popularity of RSS (Rich Site Summary) continues to grow. RSS was developed to help work around e-mail distribution problems caused by spam. - The top five online activities are e-mail and instant messaging, Web browsing, reading news, shopping and buying online, and accessing entertainment information. (Source: UCLA Internet Report)
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Online Americans’ experience with the commercial side of the Internet has expanded dramatically in spite of the economic slump. Financial and transaction activities such as online banking and online auctions have grown more than any other activity. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project) -
35 million U.S. adults download music files and 26 million share files online. 67% of Internet users who download music say they do not care whether the music they have downloaded is copyrighted. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project) | | THE MEDIA - “Here Comes ‘We Media’:
Tech-Savvy Readers Want In on the Conversation.” CJR, Jan./Feb. 2003. - On February 1, 2003, immediately after the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, news organizations such as The Dallas Morning News ask the public to submit eyewitness accounts and photographs of the shuttle’s disintegration during reentry. (Source: API)
- In March 2003, before the conflict in Iraq begins, the BBC reaches out to its audience for content and asks them to send in related photographs. Hundreds are received.
- News Example:
March 19, 2003 —
“Reporting on the Iraq War.”
(Source:
Poynter’s Links to the News) - The invasion of Iraq begins. During the first few days of the conflict more than half of all online users reported using the Web to get news about the war. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)
- “We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information.” The Media Center at API, 2003.
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“At a time when access to the high-speed Internet is getting easier and do-it-yourself publishing software abounds, Weblogs are cyberspace’s quick-moving, multilinked, interactive venues of choice for millions of people wanting to share information and opinions, commentary and news.” (Source: “ Weblogs and Journalism.” Nieman Reports, July 2003, pages 59-98.) -
“In September 2003 over half of the people in the United States — 150 million — went online, a record for Web use. And half to two-thirds of those who go online use it at least some of the time to get news. Whether the new medium is replacing the old, however, at this point is less clear.” (Source: The State of the News Media) - “Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years.”
OJR, Sept. 9, 2003. “Part Two.” - Newspaper’s combined print and online ad revenue in 2003 was $49.4 billion. In 2008 it will be $37.8 billion. (Source: Congressional Research Service)
- More than half of those online on any given day are getting news on the Web. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)Awards
- “More than 1,500 North American daily newspapers have launched web sites.” “Worldwide, there are more than 5,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online.”
(Source: NAA’s 2003
Facts about Newspapers) |
