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Thoughts on Pew statistics
About 19 percent of Americans use Twitter or a similar status update service, according to figures from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s up from 11 percent of Americans earlier in the year.
Other interesting tidbits from the survey:
Of those people who have four or more Internet-connected devices, 39 percent use Twitter or a [...]
Posted in New Media Also tagged analytics, journalism, Pew, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Social Media, Social Networking, statistics, strategy, twitter Comments closed
The Serendipity Defense
Matthew Ingram talks about the “serendipity defense” of newspapers. Basically, he says that newspapers collect all sorts of stories because they have to appeal to a wide range of readers. With all that different content in one place, it’s more likely that you’ll stumble upon something that you would never have sought out on your [...]
Self-flagellation
Alan Mutter:
Customers only buy products – or, in the case of newspapers, use them for free on the Internet – because they see a value in them. They don’t do it because they feel sorry for the vendor or the vendor feels sorry for himself.
Yet, newspapers can’t seem to stop their incessant self-flagellation over the [...]
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Dan Gilmore’s ideas for running a news organization
Dan Gilmore has an insightful list of things he’d do if he ran a news organization. The highlights, for me:
Involve the readers audience as much as possible in things like community blogs, wikis and comments but give the most involved some sort of rewards. In Gilmore’s words “We’d make it clear we’re not looking for free labor.”
Articles [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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