Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
There's a new study by eMarketer that found that more than 90 percent of kids are online these days, and that most parents say 11-13 years old is the proper time for kids to start using email.
In other words, the digital switch is on. For real this time.
There's a lot ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I'm completely baffled whenever I read stories about the changing media landscape and layoffs. The world has very clearly changed dramatically in terms of media, consumption, creation and audience. We know this. We know that it's left the realm of the technophiles and moved into a more mainstream ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Social media bugs me.
At least, the term social media bugs me. I'm still looking for a definition that suits my needs, one that doesn't include every media that's ever been created and yet captures the essence of what we all think social media is.
Not to get all Supreme Court on ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
If traditional media outlets don't find a way to move from a product to a service model (with apologies to Jim Griffin, since I'm stealing his line about the music industry and co-opting it for media), modern media companies are going to wipe them across the floor. That's my ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
A new research study found that people who watch reality television are more likely to be involved with "promiscuous friending" and online identity creation.
The study, which will be presented in June, found that people who watched these programs -- and participated in these social networks -- were less likely to ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Several months ago, I was having a drink with my friend Krista when she started talking about the need for etiquette rules for social media. The more I started listening to the conversations around me, the more I began to hear people discuss this so-called need for rules. ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I wrote a piece yesterday about the not-so-great numbers posted by all major newspapers last quarter, despite some apparent growth in their metrics. I've been commenting directly on Alan Mutter's blog, where the original post appeared. The discussion is whether newspapers are seeing a growth in certain areas because ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I asked my Tweet-followers to send me the coolest news applications that they found. The reason: I do a piss poor job of keeping up with everything so I let those smarter than me do the heavy lifting. Cynthia, who is one of the few people who return ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Robin Hamman over at the BBC kludged together a very cool Yahoo Pipes tool which -- much like Twitter TV -- allows people to see content tagged by areas on a Yahoo Map. The UGC Finder, as it's dubbed, works like this, according to Hamman: I've set up ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm always tickled when people roll out metrics online as a measure of how well a site is doing. At the end of the day, there's really only one metric that matters: revenues.
There are levers that you can adjust: inventory rates and pricing (although if you ask most site producers ...
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