MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found
Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news
Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world. It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations. For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…
A Kintera/Luth study found that: On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online.
Microsoft’s Robert Scoble frequently offers good insight and great links. But I’m afraid today his wife may be right. When he blogged today about "the world" I can only hope he intended to say "my world." RSS has totally changed how I work and how I get my information. In that sense, RSS has changed…
PaidContent reports that "Micropayments firm Peppercoin has received $8 million in venture funding." As micropayments continue to gather steam and become easier (and more affordable) for content owners and readers to use, the opportunities to monetize even small pieces of content may increase. The question is: just because it becomes easier, will readers be willing…
Steve Rubel offers an interesting chart from Technorati, the blog search engine, that seems to show that most spikes in blog posting volume occur around political events. David Sifry also comments that "We see the largest number of posts each day between the hours of 7AM and noon Pacific time, meaning between 10AM and 3PM…
In one of those odd twists of automated ad placement, I saw an ad for Dell product coupons (from a third party site, not Dell itself) in the RSS feed for Jeff Jarvis’ blog tonight. Those familiar with his "Dell Hell" experience will understand the overwhelming irony.