Articles - Blogging en-us http://www.newmedia.org N/A http://www.newmedia.org news@newmedia.org 20 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/95/1/The-Next-Big-Thing-User-Contributed-Metadata/Page1.html We know all about user-generated content, masses of users contributing to burgeoning Web corpus. It’s a manifestation of Web 2.0, the participatory Net, which companies like Google (YouTube), Yahoo (Flickr), Fox (MySpace), etc. are feasting on. In parallel, users are contributing a potentially far more lucrative Web currency–metadata about themselves. It’s the currency that will help Facebook grow into its $15 billion valuation. In addition, users are also contributing structured (meta) data about data, which will help the semantic Web to flower. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/73/1/Bebo-Becomes-the-Most-Visited-Social-Networking-Site-in-the-UK/Page1.html comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of UK traffic in July to a selection of leading social networking sites. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/54/1/Online-Newspaper-Blog-Traffic-Grows-210-Percent-Year-Over-Year/Page1.html Web traffic to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers grew 210 percent year over year in December (see Table 1). The overall unique audience growth to these online newspapers was 9 percent year over year. Unique visitors to blog pages accounted for 13 percent of their December 2006 Web traffic, up 9 percentage points from 4 percent in December 2005. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/51/1/The-Internet-and-Campaign-2006/Page1.html The number of Americans who cited the internet as their primary source of campaign news in 2006 doubled since the last mid-term election.  Twice as many Americans used the internet as their primary source of news about the 2006 campaign compared with the most recent mid-term election in 2002.  news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/39/1/Search-Engines-Email-and-Blogs-Sending-Most-Traffic-To-Political-Websites/Page1.html Hitwise reports that Search Engines continue to be the predominant source for visits to the Lifestyle - Politics category, sending 28.17 percent for the week ending November 4, 2006. Among the websites within the Computers and Internet - Search Engines category, Google sent 18.74 percent of visits to the Politics category followed by Yahoo! Search with 4.73 percent and then Ask.com with 1.48 percent of visits for the week ending November 4, 2006. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/8/1/What-are-Bloggers-Focusing-on/Page1.html The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world.  A new, national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/33/1/Deployment-of-Corporate-Weblogs-Will-Double-in-2006/Page1.html JupiterResearch reveals that 35 percent of large companies plan to institute corporate Weblogs this year. Combined with the existing deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent of all site operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the end of 2006. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/14/1/Younger-Internet-Users-are-More-Likely-Than-Older-Ones-to/Page1.html Teens and Generation Y (age 18-28) are significantly more likely than older users to send and receive instant messages, play online games, create blogs, download music, and search for school information. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800