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SERVICES & TECH The Twitter social networking and microblogging service is founded in March 2006. Newsvine is officially launched in March 2006.  "Web 2.0: The new Internet 'boom' doesn't live up to its name." Slate, March 29, 2006. "Legal Guide for Bloggers." Electronic Frontier Foundation, April 20, 2006. "The Video Camera Revised." Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, Mossberg Solution, May 3, 2006. (An early version of the Flip Video camera is released by Pure Digital Technologies in 2006.) "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time." PC World, May 26, 2006. "Court Imprisons Lone Wolf Blogger." The case of a jailed video journalist and blogger has repercussions that extend to the entire journalism -- and blog -- community. CJR, Aug. 2, 2006. "Ball State Study Finds Computer Usage Trails Only Television Viewing." Ball State, Aug. 11, 2006.  "Websites that changed the world." Guardian Unlimited, August 13, 2006. Publishing company Conde Nast acquires the Reddit social bookmarking service in October 2006. "Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock." Google press release, Oct. 9. 2006. Nintento launches its Wii video game console.  "Web Inventor Fears for the Future." BBC News, Nov. 2, 2006. The museum exhibit, "START-UP: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution", opens on Nov. 18, 2006. "CNBC Special: A history of video game industry." CNBC, Nov. 30, 2006. "Ethan Zuckerman History of the Internet." Posted on YouTube, Dec. 2006. "Social Bookmarking 2006 -- A Year In Review." The Blog Herald, Dec. 26, 2006.         Additional Resources Imagining the Internet - Predictions Database. Elon University/Pew Internet and American Life Project. (Additional survey material added in 2006.) Mozilla Digital Memory Bank. Center for History and New Media, 2006. Pew Internet & American Life Project Reports: "Online News: For many home broadband users, the internet is a primary news source." March 22, 2006. "How Americans use their cell phones." April 3, 2006. "The Internet's Growing Role in Life's Major Moments." April 19, 2006. "Home Broadband Adoption 2006." May 28, 2007. "Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers." July 19, 2006. "The Future of the Internet II." Sept. 24, 2006. "Riding the Waves of Web 2.0." Oct. 5, 2006. "The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science." Nov. 20, 2006. "Podcast Downloading." Nov. 22, 2006.		THE MEDIA "....The appeal of the Web is its convenience, interactivity, diversity and control....The biggest questions remain those that touch the bottom line. Online journalism, in 2006, is still young. Like an adolescent, it is learning what it can do. It is even making a little money. But it is still not really paying its own way. And it isn't entirely sure what it will be doing when it grows up." "The State of the News Media: Online Section." Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2006. "The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.*" NYU, March 2006. "WSJ.com's 10th Anniversary: Beginning a Second Decade." WSJ.com, May 1, 2006. (See also: "Evolution: The front page, from prototype to today.") The Christian Science Monitor Web site celebrates its tenth anniversary. June 2006. "How online journalism got its UK start." Press Gazette, June 2, 2006. "Slate's 10th Anniversary." Slate, June 18, 2006. "A Brief History of washingtonpost.com." The Washington Post, June 19, 2006. "Adapt or Die." AJR, June/July 2006. "10 Years of CBC.ca" CBC.ca, July 2006. "MSNBC @ 10." MSNBC, July 15, 2006. "Fifteen years of the web" BBC, Aug. 5, 2006. "Amateur Hour: Journalism without Journalists." Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, Aug. 7, 2006. "BBC News on the History of the Web." Posted on YouTube, Aug. 10, 2006. The CBS News with Katie Couric begins simulcasting its program on the Web and creates a new blog on Sept. 5, 2006. (Starting at the end of 2005, broadcasts of the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams were posted on the Web after 10 pm. At ABC News, World News began streaming a shorter, mid-afternoon version on the Internet.) "Newspaper Next: Blueprint for Transformation." American Press Institute, Sept. 2006. "A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change." Adrian Holovaty, Holovaty.com, Sept. 6, 2006. "Charting the Online Revolution." A PEJ Roundtable, Sept. 8, 2006. "Reuters has opened a virtual news agency in the Second Life online world." BBC News, Oct. 16, 2006. (See also: "Reuters/Second Life." The first public demonstration of Second Life took place in 2002.) "The Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms." Medill School of Journalism/ONA, Nov. 2006. "Now and Then." History of Dallas Morning News Web site, Nov. 3, 2006. "Time's Person of the Year: You." Time, Dec. 13, 2006. (Intro excerpt: "....for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.") "Coverage of the Saddam Hussein Execution and its Aftermath." Poynter Online, Dec. 29, 2006. "Goodbye Gutenberg." Nieman Reports issue about online journalism and the Web, Winter 2006. 2006 News Examples: Poynter's "Page One Today": January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November; December.             Awards The 2006 Editor & Publisher EPpy awards (Archived list of winners) The 2006 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards (Archived list of winners) (Archived list of finalists) The 2006 NAA Digital Edge Awards (Archived list of winners) (Archived list of finalists) 2006 NPPA Best of Photojournalism: Web Site Winners (Archived list of winners) 2006 Webby Awards (Archived list of winners) Statistics "More than 1,500 North American dailies have their own Web site. Worldwide, the number is 5,000." (NAA's The Source, 2006) Additional Resources See Also: New Media Bibliography and other Poynter resources about online journalism

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