The Presence of Magazines on the Internet

TBG has recently completed a research study called "Analyzing the Presence of Magazines on the Internet". In the wake of success surrounding our previous newspaper study, "The Use of the Internet by America's Newspapers ", we decided to conduct similar research on the magazine industry. Our study reviews the websites of the top 50 most circulated magazines in the United States and evaluates them based on the presence or absence of various Web 2.0 features....

Taking at Look at the New York Times Most Popular Feature

Jeff Jarvis points to an interesting post by Chris Riley that compares the editor-controlled content on the BBC homepage to the content on the BBC Most Popular Now page, which is determined by usage patterns of site visitors. He found editors and users were in synch in the stories they chose 37% of the time....

Facebook Meets the Widget

While doing some new research today, I discovered a few websites with some interesting features.

Sports Illustrated’s website has a function that I’ve recently seen popping up on the Web on rare news sites, such as the Washington Post. In the set of tools provided for each article,...

The Results are in!

Now that this year's Senate races are over, I wanted to take a quick look and see how our political bloggers fared in the election.  It turns out that out of the 26 total campaign blogs, 13 were for winning candidates and 13 were for losing candidates.  This factoid surprised me because I expected the Internet would play a more effectual role in this cycle's elections.  ...

All Content Is Special Interest Content

We’ve spent some time here encouraging folks to move away from a generalized approach to content and toward niche content.

Jeff Jarvis just wrote a post about the struggles Time Magazine is having with its generalized content approach. Here’s a key snippet:

“I think that general-interest magazines may well be fated to fade away....