The Bivings Report yesterday published the results of their study into ‘The Use of the Internet by America’s Newspapers’. They looked at the websites of the top 100 American newspapers (based on print circulation) and "evaluated them based on their… Continue Reading
According to a NY Times report (alt link) newspaper sites are beginning to look – and link – outward: Online media outlets like Slate or Salon prominently feature their links to other sites and some, particularly blogs, are built around… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago I recorded some interviews for BBC 5Live‘s "Pods and Blogs" at the e-tribes launch party, held at the top of the BT Tower. I managed to speak to e-tribes founder Simon Grice, who explained why… Continue Reading
Not so long ago, just about everyone in the internet industry was talking about the value of purpose built online communities for online brands. Just in time for the dot-com crash, books like Cluetrain Manifesto taught us (and our venture… Continue Reading
Del.icio.us, diggtailrank, furl, reddit, shoutwire and other “link aggregators” and “social bookmarking” services have been compared by Lycos Webmonkey. Never heard of any of them? It’s time to try. The results? Lycos reckons that shoutwire, which I’d never heard of,… Continue Reading
MTV news (yes, there is such a thing) reports that having a myspace profile is the latest recruitment method deployed by the US Marines in a bid to counter the declining numbers of new recruits. Five months after its launch,… Continue Reading
A power outage at a data center used by myspace is reportedly the source of the site’s current downtime. There is likely to be quite a backlash from myspace users who will be wondering why myspace doesn’t have redundent systems… Continue Reading
Earlier this week, I was interviewed by Graham Holliday for a feature at journalism.co.uk. One of the key points I tried to get across in responding to Graham’s questions was that, these days, everyone who works in industry, journalism or… Continue Reading
Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending much of the afternoon and evening in the company of Nancy White. She stopped by the BBC for an informal chat with a wide range of BBC people involved in building and managing… Continue Reading
A helpful email I just received from Martin Stabe at the Press Gazette points out that the "new" research I blogged about in the previous post was actually itself more than 36 hours old. Martin, by the way, blogged along… Continue Reading