At the New Communications Forum conference last week, Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News mentioned during a presentation that 2/3rds of the traffic to the paper’s website comes from news aggregators (like Google News) and search engines. This figure was higher than I expected, so I mentally filed away the tidbit to write about at some point....
Continue ReadingAt the New Communications Forum conference I attended last week, Twitter was the topic of a great deal of discussion. During panels and hallway chats, three things became really clear to me:
(1) There are a lot of smart people who have no idea what Twitter is, or who only know about it in the vaguest sense....
Continue ReadingI gave a presentation earlier today at the New Communications Forum conference in Santa Rosa, CA on how well traditional media (newspapers and magazines) are adapting their Internet programs based on the challenges presented by the web and social media.
During my talk, I reviewed the results of our newspaper and magazine studies that examined the Web 2.0 features these media properties include on their websites. ...
Continue ReadingLast week, Hugh MacLead of Gaping Void (his cartoon above) announced that he was leaving the micro-blogging platform Twitter because he found it was distracting him from what he really wanted to be doing: writing books and drawing cartoons.
Rex Hammock responded with a sensible post calling for moderation:
I like Twitter and have written on this blog about how I believe it can serve many positive purposes....
Continue ReadingTwitter is an addictive micro-blogging platform that has experienced explosive growth since launching a few years back (my account is here). I’ve come across a few cool Twitter tools in the last few weeks so I figured I’d share.
(1) Twhirl
This is a slick little application that allows you to receive and send tweets from your desktop....
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