Fascinating post from Daily Kos, which categorized the original source of information for every front page post on the site and found that newspapers were the most popular source of information, but only accounted for about 20 percent. “In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we’d have [...]
Guy Kawasaki: How to Get Retweeted
Guy Kawasaki says the secret of how to get retweeted is similar to the secret to good SEO: “tweet good shiitake.”
Did Wikipedia kill Encarta?
Microsoft announced it is shutting Encarta, saying “the category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed. People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past.” (via Preston Galla)
Former CNN Anchor Moves to The Onion
NYTimes.com: “In yet another sign that the line between real news and fake news is getting thinner, one of CNN’s main anchors during the 1980s and 1990s, Bobbie Battista, has taken a step through the looking glass and can now be seen anchoring reports online for ONN, The Onion News Network.”
Where Twitter drives traffic to
Hitwise looks at what types of sites Twitter is driving traffic to and says it’s more similar to a social network than a search site.
State of the News Media report 2009
The annual State of the News Media report found that most media continued to see audiences shrink and only two platforms clearly grew: the Internet, where “the gains seemed more structural,” and cable, where they were “more event-specific.” For all other forms of media, the outlook is bleak.
A bold experiment: Seattle takes first major metro paper online
Hearst is shutting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer down as a printed newspaper, with its last edition Tuesday, and becoming the first major media company to convert a metropolitan daily newspaper into an online only edition. Larry Kramer points out the upside of the Seattle paper’s end on The Daily Beast: “If Hearst is right, they will [...]
Why Newspapers Can’t Be Saved, but the News Can
Eric Etheridge on NYTimes.com: Is the apparent demise of the print media a “revolution”?
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