Mark Deuze a professor at Indiana University and author of the book Media Work spent most of the day Tuesday on campus here at the UB. I attended a guest lecture that Deuze spoke at for Trebor Scholz’s class about the social web. During his guest lecture Deuze talked about the harsh realities of working in the media industry focusing on the lack of long term jobs, the instability of the industry, and the fact that most media professionals over the age of 35 were looking to get out.
 
Here are some of my favorite notes I took down during his …read more

I will have a post up later about my day listening to Media Work author Mark Deuze guest lecture here at UB.
Here are some interesting links that I came across browsing my feeds this morning:
Fast Company has launched a social network, this is something we are going to see more and more of in the next year with companies building brand specific social networking sites.
Want to know how to block Facebook applications? This video will show you how.
Yahoo’s oneConnect has been examined by TechCrunch. Want to combine your mobile friends with your social networking friends in one mobile application?
An overview …read more