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Interesting stats MediaPost pulled from a study presented at the Society for New Communications Research Symposium on Nov. 14, 2008: 87% of 18-29 year-olds believe bloggers have become important opinion-shapers, versus 60% of 50-64 year-olds 87% of 18-29 year-olds confirm...
Here’s what I’ve been sharing in Google Reader lately.
I think I have a shorter “reader” list than a lot of people, certainly the power users, but even at that, it’s hard to stay on top of it.
This weekend is the weekend of the dueling pottery festivals in tiny Seagrove, NC. I’m heading to the upstart one at the old Luck’s Beans plant instead of the traditional one. I suspect visitors to Seagrove will be at an...
I sent some stats to Scott Karp on what I think is a pretty successful example of “link journalism.” (Karp is credited with coining that term and has a company, Publish2, built around the concept.) Like articles, the reader interest...
NAA Beth Lawton looks at YouTube and newspapers. She links to a neat Google map of newspapers with YouTube channels. Having a presence on YouTube is a no-brainer to me, but apparently it’s controversial in spots. How many times have...
Two Tennesseans are included in the popular quotes column “Thoughts on the Business of Life” feature in the Nov. 10, 2008, issue of Forbes magazine.
All of the quotes are about politics and the financial crisis.
Randy Neal covers a panel discussion we were on yesterday at a journalism class at the University of Tennessee.
I woke up this morning and lo and behold in my inbox I did see, legit comments on a post I had written in May 2006. What’s up with that? Timeless prose is doubtful. The post happened to be about...
Looking at Google trends is one of my diversions. Sometimes gamed or “Google bombed,” often weird and very often a good early indicator of mass trends or crazes. Among the top 10 early this morning was the term: Googleganger. It’s...