Poynter Online have updated their new media timeline for 2008.

Events year to date include:
-Steve Jobs Macworld Keynote
-ABC News and Facebook sponsoring the republican and democratic presidential primary debates
-The White House getting its first blog
-Wikipedia in the newsroom
-Microsoft $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo (will look at this in another post)

While the MTV Myspace closing arguments forum is not covered, there is a very insightful report titled:
“The internets broader role in Campaign 2008″ - Social networking and online videos take off

Welcome to the new media world order, Ed. Everyone can and will blog something newsworthy you might say even in the seeming privacy of a restaurant conversation with your wife. It’s not necessarily a good thing, it’s just a new reality when everyone can snap a photo or take video of you with their cell phones or quickly write up a blog post on a laptop or tap out a text message broadcast over Twitter. If enough people pick that up, the news will spread quickly enough and you’ll be red-faced on Fox News. Read Media Shift: Iowa caucuses blanketed by twitter, blogs, video Here