A copy of the 6th ed. of APA (2010)is at the reference desk. A pdf guide by Ron Gilmour is available on the library’s webpage > Citing sources Using APA. Noodlebib can now assist students with Chicago-Turabian style.
Archive for August, 2009
Library News: new APA manuals & guides; Chicago Turabian in Noodlebib
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Radio, Television on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
TechCrunch: Why teens don’t tweet
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Cook, G. (2009, August 30). Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them. TechCrunch. Retrieved August 31, 2009, from http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/why-dont-teens-tweet-we-asked-over-10000-of-them/. Cook is a guest author & the CEO of myYearbook. He gets to the truthiness of the question.
VARIETY BREAKING NEWS: Disney to buy Marvel (pending review)
Posted in Culture and Communications, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Television on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Story by the Associated Press: A.P. (2009, August 31). Disney to buy Marvel for $4 billion: Deal requires antitrust review . Variety – Film. Retrieved August 31, 2009, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007932.html?categoryid=13&cs=1.
Variety: rebranding the Peacock (NBC)
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Television on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Schneider, M. (2009, August 30). Colorful new peacock for NBC. Variety. Retrieved August 31, 2009, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007925.html?categoryId=18&cs=1&nid=2248. Can you say “more colorful”?
paidContent: Comcast v. FCC; Google Books
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Library News, Public Relations, Radio, Television on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
2 of interest from paidContent: Kramer, S. (2009, August 28). Comcast Wins Appeal Against FCC’s Cable Ownership Cap. paidContent. Retrieved August 31, 2009, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-comcast-wins-appeal-against-fccs-cable-ownership-cap/. A fulltext copy of the case is included Smith, P. (2009, August 28). EC Media Commissioner Backs Google Books Plan . paidContent. Retrieved August 31, 2009, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-ec-media-commissioner-backs-google-books-plan/.
Project Look Sharp: new curriculum material
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Library News, Media Literacy on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
From an email to Educators, 8/28/09: We wanted to let you know about our latest curriculum materials that are now available for free on our website! We hope that as you plan your units of study this year that you may easily integrate our media literacy and critical thinking teaching materials into your curriculum. Download [...]
WSJ.com: Time Warner tests web tv program subscription
Posted in InfoTech, Television on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Schechner, S. (2009, August 27). Cable Firm, Partners to Test TV on the Web. wsj.com. Retrieved August 27, 2009, from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125133475038162379.html?mod=dist_smartbrief. Quote from the lead: Cable-television provider Time Warner Cable Inc. has signed up at least seven major media companies in a test that will put television programs on the Web for paying subscribers, according [...]
LATimes.com: Big Tech opposes Google Book settlement
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Journalism, Legal Studies, Library News on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Pham, A. (2009, August 21). Google book scanning project gains three major tech opponents . latimes.com. Retrieved August 27, 2009, from http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google21-2009aug21,0,4130944.story. Who? Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Amazon. Quote from the 2nd & 3rd paragraphs: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have signed on to a coalition being assembled by the Internet Archive and Gary [...]
paidContent: Problems with EveryBlock
Posted in Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, tagged hyperlocal on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Tartakoff, Joseph. (2009, August 26). The Problems With EveryBlock . paidContent. Retrieved August 27, 2009, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-problems-with-everyblock/. EveryBlock.com was sold to MSNBC Interactive. Reporter Tartakoff tried it and found it wanting: But during my week of testing, I found that EveryBlock had some real gaps. Often the biggest problem was that important information was either [...]
MP/Research Brief: What Parents don’t know
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Media Literacy on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Jack Loechner. (2009, August 27). What Parents Don’t Know . MediaPost Publication. Retrieved August 27, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=112100&lfe=1. Summary of a Common Sense Media survey about the effect of social networks on kids and families.
OnlineVideoInsider: Media Rating Council
Posted in Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Radio, Television on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Kokernak, M. (2009, August 26). Media Ratings Council’s Approach Is Straightforward 08/26/2009. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=112296. Why it is so hard to challenge Nielsen… Good overview of the MRC.
NYTimes: Comedy Central is, like, so cool
Posted in Culture and Communications, Television on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Carter, B. (2009, August 26). Comedy Central Tries to Gauge Passion of Its Viewers. The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/media/26adco.html?_r=1. People who watch Comedy Central are cool (o.k. I don’t get CC).
MarketingDaily: E-Reader wars
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Library News on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Mahoney, S. (2009, August 26). Sony Rattles Amazon’s Cage With New E-Reader . MediaPost Publications . Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=112213. Sony challenges Amazon’s e-book reader with its own hot product.
Harvard Business Reveiw: Bulldoze your cubicles
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Sherbin, L., & Sumberg, K. (2009, August 20). Bulldoze Your Cubicles for Better Collaboration – Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hewlett/2009/08/bulldoze_your_cubicles_for_bet.html. First paragraph: Companies are finally realizing what their employees have known for ages: Cubicle cultures just don’t work. With concerns about knowledge-sharing among older and younger generations of [...]
Library News: Local news portal
Posted in Indymedia, Journalism, Library News on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Gannett titles were pulled out of our Newsbank product. We are still waiting to hear if we can purchase access to the Ithaca Journal as a stand-alone title. In the meantime, Newsbank gathered free local news together into one interface. Click here to see the local news portal.
Variety: Hulu, ITV may form U.K. partnership
Posted in Television on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Clarke, S. (2009, August 25). Hulu, ITV may form U.K. partnership – Entertainment News, Technology News, Media. Variety. Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007688.html?categoryId=1009&cs=1&nid=2248. ITV needs more ad revenue. Hulu would get revenue & access to ITV programs.
NYTimes.com: F.T.C to Assess Business of News
Posted in Culture and Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Joshi, P. (2009, August 24). F.T.C. to Assess Business of News. The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/media/24ftc.html?ref=media. From the 2nd paragraph: The commission is planning two days of workshops in December — titled “From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” — to examine the state of [...]
msnbc.com: graphic PSA on texting while driving
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Television on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
The following PSA from Gwent, Wales is causing discussion over whether it is too graphic. Read more at msnbc.com here. more about “msnbc.com: graphic PSA on texting whi…“, posted with vodpod
WSJ: FTC criticizes Bud Light cans with college team colors
Posted in Integrated Marketing Communications, Legal Studies, Media Literacy, Public Relations on August 25, 2009 | Comments Off
Hechinger,, J. (2009, August 25). FTC Criticizes College-Themed Cans in Anheuser-Busch Marketing Efforts . WSJ.com. Retrieved August 25, 2009, from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125116535930755741.html?mod=dist_smartbrief. Here is the lead paragraph: A Federal Trade Commission attorney criticized a controversial Anheuser-Busch InBev NV marketing campaign that features Bud Light cans decorated with college-team colors, urging the brewer to drop any plans [...]
Stars &Stripes: military to vet embeds
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Journalism, Public Relations on August 25, 2009 | Comments Off
Reed,, C. (2009, August 24). Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds . Stars and Stripes. Retrieved August 25, 2009, from http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=64348&loc=interstitialskip. The military is using a PR firm, The Rendon Group, to do background checks on potential embeds.
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