See the power of Twitter

NYT reported that companies like Dell, Starbucks, and Microsoft use Twitter to monitor their products and communicate with customers. Twitter is one of the fast-growing social media sites, known as "microblogging" which may indicate a different way to deliver information to a large number of people and get people connected with one another.

If you did not try, why not.. Try Twitter..

CSM became a weekly newspaper

Known as one of the daily national newspapers, the Christian Science Monitor stopped the daily publication in print and went online in October, 2008. Here is an article by BusinessWeek.

It was one of the example that shows the impact of the Internet technology on traditional media landscape. Will the Internet eventually kill printed newspaper?

Cloud computing

If you read the article below, you may curious about "cloud computing." Please watch this video to understand its basics.

As new technologies are emerging and evolving every day at a great rate, the technologies once called 'new' are turning into already "old" so we will no longer use the tech terms very soon.  Here is an interesting article from Businessweek, "12 words you can never say in the office."

A blog is a shortened version of "Weblog," a term that emerged in the late 1990s to describe commentary that an individual publishes online. It spawned many words still in use such as "blogger" and "blogosphere." Nowadays, few people have time to blog so they are "microblogging," which is another word that's heading out the door as people turn Twitter into a generic term for blasting out 140-character observations or opinions.

The Machine Stops download

You can download the novel here for free.

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Welcome to MC 470 Blog !!

Hello, everyone!!

This is Professor Kim in the Department of Mass Communication at Idaho State University. I would like to welcome all of you to MC 470 course, Communication through Web Design. This blog is created in an attempt to help student communicate with each other and share their interests on the blogosphere. All of you are highly encouraged to contribute to make this blog effective and productive throughout the semester. More detailed information regarding blog activity will be given to you soon.

Again, thank you so much for your interest in this course and I hope we will all have great fun in this course.

Danny Kim