Tag Archives: John Naughton

Blogs and Web logs

By Michael Becker | Published: November 29, 2009
John Naughton, on the dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for Web and writ­ing for print: The other dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for print and writ­ing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘fin­ished’ and dis­patched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a [...]
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Chance for YouTube fame decreases the more videos you post

By Michael Becker | Published: April 11, 2009
A study by Fang Wu and Bernardo Huberman tells us that the most pro­lific posters on video sites like YouTube are less likely to become famous, while the one-shot won­ders are more likely to crack the top-1-percent bracket of YouTube views. Their abstract: A hall­mark of the atten­tion econ­omy is the com­pe­ti­tion for the atten­tion [...]
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Online authority debate centering on Twitter

By Michael Becker | Published: December 29, 2008
Having a lot of fol­low­ers on Twitter doesn’t make you an author­ity. That’s the mes­sage from Jeff Jarvis and John Naughton, who both posted to their blogs recently about whether Twitter should rank tweets by some mea­sure of “author­ity.” Both of them are respond­ing to another post by Loïc Le Meur that calls for search [...]
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