Chris Riley has come up with a great idea for tracking exactly how in touch the BBC website is with its readers. His BBC Touch site compares the top ten headlines on the BBC News front page against their popularity - the news that was actually read.
This brief sample shows that we’re a bit more [...]
Tag Archives: news
Out of Touch or Moral Guardian?
November 25, 2006 – 2:34 pm
Trust Me, I’m a Journalist
October 12, 2006 – 11:25 am
Reminiscent of this post, comes a reminder from LexisNexis that traditional media are much more highly trusted than any of us lot. However, it appears that the US is less trusting of its media - old and new - than the UK. Are we brits more gullible than the US, or is American media just [...]
Bye Bye Blogrolls
September 19, 2006 – 1:50 pm
Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove subscriptions on the fly, but you can’t [...]
Digg to Repair Holes
September 7, 2006 – 10:36 am
News voting site digg is to re-adjust its story promotion algorithm to give less weight to votes from friends. Founder Kevin Rose writes on the digg blog:
This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn’t [...]
347 words from digg’s Kevin Rose
August 11, 2006 – 5:50 pm
Being the Elvis of Web 2.0 is a busy job, it seems. I’ve been stalking Kevin Rose of digg for about six weeks, watching him sign a girl’s chest, hit the cover of BusinessWeek and attempt to fend off attempts to hire the service’s most loyal users. And basically, not getting to interview him. It’s [...]
Reddit in the black
August 4, 2006 – 4:21 pm
The news aggregator site reddit has been profitable since April, according to Mass High Tech. I’m very pleased for them. The site takes the digg model a little further with recommendations based on your voting habits. It also seems to have a somewhat quieter, maybe older user base, which leads to a difference in the [...]
