Whisking through my unread posts today, two items struck me as demanding a little follow-up. First of all, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’s Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship. The nature of the paper is pretty obvious from its title, though that is not to imply that it is not well-written, intelligent and provoking. [...]
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Blogging Asia
December 7, 2006 – 11:50 am
Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following from here, here and here.
46% of the online population in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US web [...]
Let’s Be Friends
December 6, 2006 – 10:29 am
danah boyd has published a new paper at First Monday, an online academic journal. In it, she examines the concept of Friendship on social networks, as opposed to friendship in the offline world. Briefly, Friends (capital ‘F’) are about ‘identity performance’ - they reflect who you are online and offline - and may arrive on [...]
Brits with Broadband
November 26, 2006 – 3:15 pm
From the National Statistics office (PDF), via Resource Shelf:
Three out of four connections to the Internet [in the UK] are now via broadband.
In September 2006, broadband connections accounted for 75.2 per cent of all Internet connections, up from 72.6 per cent in June 2006. This is according to the latest update to the survey of [...]
Poll Position - UK Last Again
November 16, 2006 – 2:20 pm
From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users:
Blogs are now a near second to newspapers as the most trusted information source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of information, still behind newspaper articles (30%), but ahead of television advertising (17%) and email marketing (14%).
High spenders are most [...]
MySpace: The Beast of Santa Monica
November 10, 2006 – 9:23 am
The latest Hitwise Consumer Generated Media Report reveals that MySpace’s dominance over other social networks shows no signs of slowing down. MySpace has a market share of 81.92% among the social networks, with users spending over 30 minutes on the site in an average session. This is the second-longest session time in the survey, with [...]
Why do PRs Blog?
November 8, 2006 – 12:28 pm
One of the things that really surprised me when I started blogging earlier this year was the number of PR people who are involved in it (big list here here). For some reason, I thought there’d be more journos doing it. But then, I suppose a lot of journalists have to blog for the publications [...]
Web 2.0 Bigger than News
November 7, 2006 – 12:27 pm
Not really. Though if you stretch the stats enough you can make it seem that way.
From Mediapost’s Online Media Daily:
Web 2.0 sites make up the fastest-growing category on the Web - doubling their traffic over the last year, according to data presented Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings. Web 2.0 sites, defined loosely as those allowing users to [...]
Conspiracy of One
October 20, 2006 – 2:16 pm
Dr. Sam Vaknin has been monitoring the results given by Google for 154 keywords since 1999. He’s allegedly discovered that changes in the way Google works since April 2006 have produced what he calls ‘unsettling’ results. He says incoming links from the MySpace social network appear valued very highly by Google’s search algorithm. The end [...]
