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Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Social media
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Social media
Q. How do you reinvigorate a 98 year-old mag for the digital age? A. Hire a 29 year-old former Facebook exec
Earlier this week the New Republic, the 98 year-old magazine referred to above, relaunched its website. Publisher Chris Hughes — 29 and formerly of Facebook — had some pretty sensible things to say about the marriage of old and new…
Tagged with: Facebook, Huffington Post, New Republic
Posted in Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
Posted in Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
Tweets, Pokes And Uploads: Watching Social Media’s Growth In Real-Time
Twenty hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, nearly a million blog posts each day, 600,000 new members of Facebook and around four million tweets via Twitter every 24 hours – some social media numbers are quite hard to…
Is Social Media A Fad? Apparently Not
If you like your new media stats thick and fast, set to an uplifting soundtrack, it seems you are not alone. Social Media Revolution is currently second on the Viral Video Chart, only kept from the number one slot by…
Why Ashes 2009 Really Was A Shared National Moment
According to Mark Lawson writing in today’s TV Matters column in the Guardian: These Ashes felt less like a shared national moment because fewer of the nation shared it. There’s no doubt the numbers are compelling – Channel 4 averaged three million…
Putting The Guardian Into The MediaGuardian 100
So to the annual MediaGuardian 100. I guess the clue is in the name. The paper likes to slice and dice entrants in its power list – under 40s, top 10 fallers, top 10 women, you know the kind of…
Tagged with: Apple, Daily Telegraph, Facebook, Google, Guido Fawkes, Huffington Post, Hulu, Microsoft, Moo.com, Spotify, The Guardian, Twitter
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Posted in Uncategorized
Million Up For Apple 3G iPhone And Dell’s $3m Twitter Windfall
This is my kind of blog. Digital Stats does exactly what it says on the tin – it is a collection of “interesting and surprising statistics about digital media and devices”. It doesn’t try and do anything else. Just that.…
Iran’s Internet Revolution: The Backstory
Twenty-three million interent users, with a growth rate of 48% year-on-year and 60,000 active bloggers. Yep, we’re talking Iran. A third of the nation is online and, seemingly, another third is on the streets. These figures, sourced from the Open Net Initiative, are no…
Have The Young Deserted Facebook In Favour of Twitter?
While on this side of the Atlantic Facebook has been enjoying an upsurge of traffic thanks to its vanity publishing project (aka Facebook usernames), on the other side of the Atlantic the social networking site is showing its age . The ever…
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