Cable TV Sites and their Use of the Web

I recently spent some time looking at the top 20 cable TV network sites, as ranked by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, in order to find out how these networks are using the Internet.

Here's what I found:

As you can see from the chart,...

Link Roundup (1/31/2007)

• 28% of Online Americans Have Used the Internet to Tag Content (PDF)
  Pew releases a new study about the use of tagging to classify content (on sites like del.icio.us and flickr).
• Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
  Only 94%?
• The readers strike back
  Great piece from Salon about how immediate and unfiltered feedback from readers is changing the way journalists think.
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Mainstream Media and Web 2.0

Read/Write Web has an interesting post looking at the use of RSS and social bookmarking (Digg, del.icio.us and Newsvine) by fifteen or so mainstream media outlets.  Their post is similar in many ways to the newspaper and magazine studies we did a few months back that looked at the features on the major player's websites....

TBG to Speak at the Magazine Publishers of America on February 6th

On February 6th, Erin and I will be giving a presenation at the Magazine Publishers of America offices in NYC on the use of the Internet by magazines.  We will talk about how aggressively magazines are adopting Web 2.0 features, review examples of best practices and speculate a bit about what will come next....

Huffington Post Launches Digg/Reddit Clone

I missed this last week, but apparently the Huffington Post has launched a Digg/Reddit style section on their site called Huffit. 

Basically, the Huffington Post is automatically ingesting RSS feeds from pre-identified blogs (including themselves) and then giving registered users the ability to vote on their favorite stories. ...