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Internet use in the UK – implications from Ofcom’s research for publishers

UPDATE: The Office for National Statistics has also released some data on internet access which paints a more positive picture. Their data puts the numbers who haven’t been online at 18%. And 45% had accessed the web on the move . I’ve just been scanning through the internet section of Ofcom’s latest report on The Communications Market 2010. As always, it’s
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Did Web 1.0 begin dying in September 2008?

Nicholas Moerman has put together an impressive collection of graphs showing a general decline over the past year in visits to mainstream websites across a raft of categories, from content and commerce to portals and porn. The only sites that buck the trend? I’ll let you guess. He doesn’t know why this is (or even if he’s seeing things), which
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Another Week in Online Journalism

Virtual intern Natalie Chillington rounds up last week’s online journalism-related news Google Google will announce a new metrics tool to measure web site audience, to rival current power players Nielsen and ComScore. Lots of debate over whether Google is making us stupid WordPress Puffbox.com announces it will be sponsoring WordCamp UK in July,bringing together around 100 devotees of WordPress in
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