What's New

Some interesting findings from the Asia-Pacific Social Media Report, launched in June 2010 by leading online researcher, The Nielsen Company:

• Japan posts over 1 million blogs per month, significantly more than any other country.

• Unique visitors to Twitter increased from less than 200,000 to more than 10 million in  a year on April 2010.

• Of Japan's internet users, 16 percent use Twitter, compared to 10 percent in the United States.

Social networking device Facebook has surged to nearly 500 million users, from 200 million users just 15 months ago, reports a 'New York Times' article on Jul 7. Although 70 percent of its users are outside the United States, Facebook is still largely blocked in China and has fewer than a million users each in Japan, South Korea and Russia, lagging far behind home-grown social networks in those major markets.

Social networking device Facebook has surged to nearly 500 million users, from 200 million users just 15 months ago, reports a '

Internet users in China spend about one billion hours online each day, says a Boston Consulting Group report titled 'China's Digital Generations 2.0: Digital Media and Commerce Go Mainstream''.

Indonesia has more than 2,000 radio stations, 1,000 print publications, and 115 television stations.

The Philippines had the highest penetration of social networking usage with more than 90 percent of its entire Web population visiting a social networking site and averaging 5.5 hours per visitor during February 2010, followed by Australia (89.6 percent) and Indonesia (88.6 percent).

The International Center for Journalists has released its online guidebook designed to help journalists worldwide prepare for future disaster coverage. An excerpted version of the guide is available as an embedable interactive widget, as well as a PDF version, including an extended text and additional sections, can be downloaded in either English or Spanish from the ICFJ website.

At no time in the foreseeable future will digital advertising revenues replace those lost to print, making the search for new business models — including paid-for-online access for news — a pressing concern for the news publishing industry, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said in its annual world press trends update.

Independent research firm GlobeScan (www.globescan.com) and Complus  Alliance (www.complusalliance.org), a partnership of communicators for sustainable development, invite journalists from the Asia-Pacific region to participate in a short online survey about their views on media's treatment of sustainable development issues.

TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) announces the global release of its latest Asian regional television series, 'Saving the Planet' (www.savingtheplanet.tv).
 
The six-episode series features outstanding efforts in education for sustainable development (ESD) in South and Southeast Asia.