Finally, people are starting to talk about numbers for podcasts — not numbers OF podcasts, but whether anyone is listening. I’ve been kind of annoyed at the extreme volume of buzz about podcasts. I have asked several online newspaper folks about how many downloads they’re getting for their podcasts, and so far, none of them [...]
Domains that showed more than 100 percent growth in unique visitors from February 2005 to February 2006: myspace.com (no surprise there), wikipedia.org, blogger.com, and citysearch.com (huh?! Who uses that?). Source: Chart at washingtonpost.com, derived from comScore Media Metrix data. Out of 50 domains listed, only those four doubled (or better) their visitor total in that [...]
Okay, sometimes I will just have to post something about blogging and bloggers. Not that I consider these unimportant in today’s media universe, but bloggers writing about bloggers writing about bloggers is really just too incestuous for me most of the time. But what I’ve been reading THIS WEEK about blogging and bloggers is of [...]
From a story in USA Today (Jan. 30, 2006: Papers take a leap forward, opening up to new ideas): Newspaper executives “are opening their minds to a host of ideas, including new paper publications, television and radio services, websites, podcasts and transmissions to cellphones.” Hmm, let me check my calendar. Yes, it’s 2006. What took [...]