Oct 13, 2008
October 13th, 2008 by Paul Bradshaw
A couple weeks ago I published the ‘5 Stages of a Blogger’s Life‘ cartoon, drawn by Alex Hughes. It was an experiment to test a theory of mine: that cartoons could be particularly successful in increasing news website visitor numbers, and that news organisations should be doing more with them.
The results? In one week that cartoon got over 40,000 hits, making it the most popular single post ever on the Online Journalism Blog . [Read more]
Oct 22, 2007
October 22nd, 2007 by Paul Bradshaw
It’s hard not to feel some schadenfreude when you see ‘Cult of the Amateur’ author Andrew Keen demonstrating a particularly lazy bit of amateur blogging himself. Today’s entry, ‘Anonymity shouldn’t pay (even in Sheffield)’ reads:
“Finally anonymity on the Internet is being punished. The Guardian today reports on anonymous Sheffield Wednesday bloggers who are being sued by the club for their abusive comments. This is heartening news. It is only when anonymous bloggers are made legally liable for their views that the Internet will become a civilized medium for responsible adults.”
Except the case was not about bloggers at all. It was about anonymous posters on a messageboard.
Perhaps he only read the headline – ‘Warning to abusive bloggers as judge tells site to reveal names’ - not a particularly great example of professionalism itself.
I tried to post a comment correcting Keen, but I got an error message.
Amateur.
40,000 hits: why news websites should make more of cartoons (and infographics)