Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere?
So why do I believe that blog authority is losing its authority?
It goes back to the definition of authority. Links from blogs are no longer the only measurable game in town. Potentially valuable linkbacks are increasingly shared in micro communities and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed and they are detouring attention and time away from formal blog responses.The Wounded U.S. Newspaper Industry Lost $7.5 Billion in Advertising Revenues Last Year
Last year was the worst on record for the U.S. newspaper industry. Total advertising revenues (both print and online) declined 16.6 percent to $37.85 billion
New Gartner research report on the state of Google.
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009
Journalists who work online are more optimistic about the future of their profession than are news people tied to more traditional media platforms, but at best their optimism is an uneasy one, according a new survey of members of the Online News Association produced by the Association and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
Posted from Diigo. The rest of ARIN6912 2009 Digital Research and Publishing group favorite links are here.
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