Politico’s Facebook fan page isn’t great, but it’s not horrible either.
The page has over 4,000 fans. Considering their circulation and reach, that doesn’t seem like much.
The page is pretty active, but sporadic. Some days will see five or more posts, while other days don’t get posts at all. The posts get a fair amount of [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Politico on Facebook
Posted in Industry, New Media on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Politico Twits
Posted in Industry, New Media on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Irritatingly, none of the sites that group journalist twitterers list Politico writers. I know of a few already, but I feel like those lists should be expanded.
I’m actually going to compare two Politico.com twitterers, because I feel like they each have different strengths and weaknesses.
Mike Allen tweets infrequently, but his tweets are often important, breaking [...]
Nobody owns the eyeballs
Posted in New Media on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jay Rosen’s take on “the people formerly known as the audience” must be unnerving to Big Old Media. This is what he says:
The people formerly known as the audience are those who were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a [...]
News delivery methods (RSS vs email newsletters)
Posted in Industry, New Media on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you’re a busy college student with two jobs, efficiency of news reading is key.
I’ve been trying for years now to perfect a method of reading news that allows me to absorb the largest amount of information in the smallest amount of time. For awhile, I only read the Washington Post’s print edition. That lasted [...]
Cool pictures
Posted in New Media on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photos pulled from flickr.com via a Creative Commons license.
This picture of a museum in Seattle has elements of repetition in the bricks, quality of light as it falls on the building and how it lights up the sky, and rule of thirds going from top to bottom.
This picture of a guy in a tunnel has [...]
