Yesterday, we looked at how social media covered the topic of journalism in 2009. Today, we offer four lists of blog posts and articles published by three traditional, mainstream news sources who covered social media this year. The stories were curated by Google with gentle nudges by a human editor. The Lede The first set of [...]
The idea of newspapers blocking Google from indexing their sites has become quite a topic of discussion recently, so I used the search engine this morning to look for some popular items. These screenshots help to illustrate how much Google relies on news sources for its best search results. Obama China Almost every entry for [...]
According to Google, 77,400 web pages link to Twitter.com. You can find links to a particular web site — the USA Today site for example — by searching for Google for “link:usatoday.com“. Results for Twitter look like this: I ran that same kind of search for the top three U.S. newspapers (by circulation), and found 71,200 links to their sites. That’s 6,200 less than [...]
Last week, we saw that The Wall Street Journal’s main Twitter account was retweeted more “per capita” than the other four top newspaper web sites in the U.S. This week, I’ve compiled a list of 13 journalists, many of whom work for those newspaper sites, who were retweeted up to 5 times more than @WSJ. The number next to [...]
