Over the past two years, arguably the most rapidly evolving trend on the Internet is social media. The Texas-based
Pluck, which describes itself as a social media tools and services provider, has been one of the main companies driving innovations in this field while simultaneously attempting to help newspapers adapt to the digital media universe. Pluck co-founder and CEO
Dave Panos chatted with the Editors Weblog to preview his upcoming presentation in Cape Town at the
14th World Editors Forum taking place June 3-6.
As more people play with the Internet, more learn about its features, especially self-publishing tools. These programs are not isolated to the citizen journalists, but also to artists and musicians. They now use the Internet to display their art and music bypassing the organizations that normally sign and promote them. Could this practice affect newspapers?
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2007/05/countdown_to_cape_town_pluck_s.php&bodytext=<img width="90" vspace="2" hspace="2" height="135" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/S4-dave_panos_8382.jpg" />Over the past two years, arguably the most rapidly evolving trend on the Internet is social media. The Texas-based <a href="http://www.pluck.com/" target="_blank">Pluck</a>, which describes itself as a social media tools and services provider, has been one of the main companies driving innovations in this field while simultaneously attempting to help newspapers adapt to the digital media universe. Pluck co-founder and CEO <strong>Dave Panos</strong> chatted with the Editors Weblog to preview his upcoming presentation in Cape Town at the <a href="http://www.capetown2007.co.za/articles.php?id=38" target="_blank">14th World Editors Forum</a> taking place June 3-6.&title=Countdown to Cape Town: Pluck, social media for newspapers){kind=link}