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« Sign On A Mosque | Main | "The Pizza Church" » May 27, 2004Blog News RoundupHere's the latest in an irregular series of round-ups of news about blogging... Dan Froomkin, a Washington Post columnist, writes an article in Online Journalism Review in which he says newspapers aren't maximizing their use of the Internet. Consider if you were starting a "newspaper" today. Wouldn't you want to facilitate exchanges with readers? Wouldn't you want to encourage your readers to find out more than what you can publish? Wouldn't you want to make it easier for them to take action? Wouldn't you want to define and create a community? Wouldn't you want to make your readers feel important? Blog tools give you all that - not to mention the ability to easily and quickly post something you just found out about. (What could be more journalistic?)TheFeature.com (Slogan: "It's all about the mobile Internet") has a story today titled The Accidental Journalist, about how non-journalists armed with digital cameras and other mobile devices are beating journalists to publication with images from major news events. eWeek says some guy named "Bill Gates" is starting to pay attention to RSS. And, finally, the New York Times has a must-read story today on blog obsession. UPDATE: In the NYT story, blogging is dismissed as a senseless activity, people writing for no readers: Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few. By Jupiter Research's estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs.But, wait. The U.S. online population was estimated at 126 million in August 2003 by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. "Only 4 percent" means means 5.4 million people are reading blogs. In March 2003, the New York Times' daily circulation was 1.13 million people - or roughly 75 percent smaller than the readership of blogs. Comments
It's pretty funny how the NY Times uses anecdotal evidence to highlight "obsessive" bloggers when the newspaper itself is now a 24 hour news operation. One obsession is better than the other? Posted by: Thomas at May 27, 2004 11:09 AMPost a comment
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