Comments on: Online media's 'Californian' adventure

By: Erin Teeling

Erin Teeling — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:48:03 +0000

Hello, my name is Erin Teeling, and I work with The Bivings Group, a Washington-DC based online public affairs company. Our team at The Bivings Group recently completed a study that analyzes how American newspapers are using Web technologies on their websites. We noticed that your website contains a lot of interesting articles about newspapers and the media, so I figured I’d give you a heads up.

Below are some highlights:

*80 of the nation’s top 100 newspapers offered reporter blogs. On 63 of
these blogs, readers could comment on posts written by reporters.

*76 of the nation’s top 100 newspapers offer RSS feeds on their websites. All of these feeds are partial feeds, and none included ads.

*Only 31 of the papers offered podcasts.

You can view the full study here:

http://www.bivingsreport.com/2006/the-use-of-the-internet-by-america%e2%80%99s-newspapers/

Let me know if you have any questions.

Erin Teeling
eteeling@bivings.com

By: Diana Day

Diana Day — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:07:56 +0000

Teri -- check out Syndicate this! Linking old media to new from March 2006 here on OJR.

By: Teri Tith

Teri Tith — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:47:14 +0000

I applaud this trend of citizen participation in creating content to online media. It’s taking back the news from the gatekeepers. Perhaps editors will change to conversation leaders.

I recently attended the BlogHer ’06 conference, with some 700+ women bloggers and learned about a new type of syndication for blog content to online major media outlets. I wonder if you would consider doing an analysis piece on it? Have you already done so? I don’t know what to make of it. Media is changing fast. The company is called Pluck, out of Austin, Texas, and their product is called BlogBurst.