5 things journalists should know about the report: The blogosphere continues to be dominated by male, affluent and educated bloggers Bloggers use Twitter far more than the average person and microblogging is changing blogging habits Blogging is becoming more mainstream and influential, but not replacing traditional media More bloggers are making money, but most don’t make any Most bloggers are
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The second part of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report is out, with more obvious headlines: the more you post, the better your blog does. Here’s the detail from TechCrunch: “Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the
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RSS + social media = “Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering” (A model for the 21st century newsroom part 2 addendum)
Just when I thought I’d put the 21st century newsroom to bed, along comes a further brainwave about conceptualising newsgathering in an online environment (the area I covered in part 2: Distributed Journalism). It seems to me that the first stage for any journalist or budding journalist lies along two paths: subscribing to a reliable collection of RSS feeds (and
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