How Social Media is Changing Journalism (and Tradeshows)

Last month I watched a fascinating movie called the Bang Bang Club, which chronicles the lives of four photojournalists in South Africa. The group, which included Pulitzer Prize winners Greg Marinovich and Kevin Carter, conducted a series of high-risk photo shoots portraying the violence and civil unrest that marked the Apartheid era. The Bang Bang Club risked their lives entering urban areas with heavy gunfire to capture photos of the violence for the local and international press. In 1994, two of the photojournalists were injured from crossfire during one of their shoots.  One of the photographers died while the other was hospitalized, but recovered.

Even the Step Brothers Could Get Funding into Today’s Tech Bubble

Everyone is talking about a bubble in Internet stocks as valuations continue to climb higher daily.  However, the trend shows no sign of abatement.  The most recent filing by social gaming leader Zynga suggests it will be valued at over $20 billion when it becomes listed later this year.  Groupon’s June S-1 registration filing placed a similar valuation of approximately $20 billion.  In an explosive IPO this May, LinkedIn sold shares to the public based upon a $4 billion valuation.  Twitter’s most recent financing suggest it is worth $7 billion.  And the biggest social network of them all, Facebook could potentially be worth $100 billion.