Tag Archives: news

Drinking from the Fire Hose of Information (and the Death of RSS)

Posted 08 November 2011 | By | Categories: Research, Social Media, Strategy | No Comments

Psst… I have a confession to make. I do not  “subscribe” to any blogs. Nor have I used an RSS reader for well over a year. Shocked? Don’t be, because I still get my daily fill of timely news, information, and gossip. Only now, I rely exclusively on my “social lens” – the filtered/curated content [...]

Powerless Portals: How The News Is Leveraging Social Networks

Posted 28 April 2009 | By | Categories: Marketing, Research, Social Media | 71 Comments

The Nielsen Company issued an important news release late last week identifying a dramatic change in the behavior and general interests of internet users, indicating that usage has drifted away from portal browsing and towards social networking and video content sites. Since 2003, interests of the average online user have shifted significantly. Categories that consisted [...]