By Mindy McAdams
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Technorati has released its always-interesting annual State of the Blogosphere report, and this year they surveyed 1,079 bloggers about their histories and current practices. Here are some tidbits I enjoyed:
U.S. bloggers = 57 percent male (parity is near); European and Asian bloggers = 73 percent male
Global bloggers, 18 to 24 years old = 9 percent [...]
One of our doctoral students spent Election Night grabbing screen captures from 98 different news Web sites, from about 11:30 P.M. EST until almost 6 a.m. Wednesday morning. The fruits of his labor are viewable at Iterasi, a free Web site that allows you to capture and save any Web page — with all its [...]
Paul Bradshaw conducted a survey of 200 blogging journalists about — what else? — blogging. He’s posted his results in four parts (with three parts still to come):
Context and methodology
Blogs and news ideas: “The canary in the mine”
Blogs and story research: “We swapped info”
Blogs and news production: “I think in hyperlinks, even when working in [...]
I came up with a “reading” assignment for my grad students that would give us a good basis for a discussion about user-generated video. You can see it here: The mwesch Assignment (feel free to copy it).
I posted a summary (with two additional video examples embedded) on Slideshare: mwesch Reloaded.
Last fall I heard Mike Wesch [...]
From the Online News Association conference:
If academics want to play a leading role in “research and development” for the news industry, he [Paul Volpe, the deputy politics editor at washingtonpost.com] said we needed to be the ones to identify market needs and build the solutions.
Report from Ryan Thornburg.
Note to self: Use this March 2008 report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press for discussion in classes (see summary).
Overall, internet journalists have more positive impressions of internet-driven innovations than do journalists who work for national and local print, TV and radio news organizations. For instance, only about a third [...]
Fact-checking is usually a dry and thankless task, vital to honest journalism, but generally not interesting enough to discuss in casual conversation.
PolitiFact may be changing all that …
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