Quick hits: Wal-Mart, Drupal, Bivings Report
A few quick hits before I go offline for a few days again (finishing some writing and then grading and then hitting the road):
Updated 12/25 to clarify, as Martin Langeveld notes, that the Bivings report applies to the top 100 papers. Meant to put that in but in the rush forgot.
- Bill Walsh: An excellent explanation of why it is still Wal-Mart and not Walmart, despite what you see on the signs.
- David Cohn: Nice detail of how the Howard Dean campaign set the stage for today's political technology that came aflower in the Obama campaign. Good little history of Drupal, too.
- The Bivings Group: this year's look at how the 100 largest newspapers use the online space. Some interesting things
- 58% offer some type of user-generated content, up from 24% last year.
- Commenting is now on 75% of newspaper sites, up from 33% last year.
- 10% have social networking features, double last year. As the report says, it's surprising this isn't higher (see my earlier post today on predictions for 2009).
- But almost all (92%) have integration with some kind of social bookmarking site, so that's some progress.
Labels: citizen journalism, newspaper web sites, social media, style, UGC
posted by Doug @ 3:20 PM
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To note the change on the last point - NYTimes will shut down their "TimesFile" service because of "social bookmarking" - see more from an email:
We wanted to inform you that, as of Dec. 22, 2008, we are
removing the ability to save articles to Times File from
NYTimes.com pages, and on Jan. 21, 2009, we are removing
Times File from the site entirely. Social-bookmarking sites
like Delicious and Digg, which can be accessed through our
Share tools, have proliferated since the creation of Times
File. This changing Web landscape has resulted in the
decision to divert resources from Times File to other areas
of NYTimes.com.
Well. That's probably smart. Do what you do best and let others do the rest.
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