New York Times Welcomes New Web Features

I saw this morning on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that the New York Times, one of the world's leading newspapers, added a new feature to its website. As of this morning, people reading New York Times articles can share their favorite articles on the popular social media sites Newsvine , Digg ,...

Food for the Web-Savvy

If you're like me and like to cook and eat good food but can never decide what to make, there are two websites that you should definitely check out.  All Recipes.com and Yahoo! Food are two online communities that bring together Web 2.0 -minded cooks and food lovers.

All Recipes.com is loaded with great features. ...

Print Media Websites: Who’s Getting it Right?

We've been somewhat critical of newspaper and magazine websites in the past few weeks.  Two of our studies, "The Use of the Internet by America's Newspapers" and "The Presence of Magazines on the Internet", concluded that newspapers and magazines aren't maximizing their presence on the Web.  By using a larger number and variety of Web tools,...

Boycott Technorati?

A few months back Edelman Public Relations and the blog search engine Technorati announced a partnership. The gist of it seems to be that Edelman gave Techorati some funding to fast track the expansion of Technorati into other countries.

Due to Edelman’s recent troubles, some folks are raising questions about the propriety of the deal....

Magazine Study on Techmeme

For the first time (I think), a piece from our blog was highlighted on the news aggregator site, Techmeme. A lot of people criticize Techmeme as being elitist and thus boring, since it only tracks a small number of high profile blogs and online media outlets. Jeremy Zawodny sums up the criticism pretty well in this post:

“TechMeme is a useful service for many people....