Archives for the 'Trends' Category
Fortune 500 Slow To Blog, Faster To Embrace Other Social Media
About a year ago today, Chris Anderson and Steve Rubel posted on the four percent (20) of Fortune 500 companies that were blogging.
Steve predicted “the Empire - e.g. large corporations - will strike back in a big way in an effort to make sure they don’t lose the online word of mouth game to the [...]
Census Says: We Spend 60 Percent Of Our Waking Hours Consuming Media
The U.S. census 2007 abstracts were released today. I love digging into the Information and Communications section every year to see how much time and money we’re spending on media. The 2007 projections says each of us are spending about 3,499 hours and almost $900 per year watching TV, listening to our satellite radios, surfing [...]
Bloggers Let Texas State Rep Have It…
A couple weeks ago I mentioned a prefiled bill in the Texas Senate that would extend Texas libel laws to blogs. Bloggers have been attacking State Representative Vicki Truitt (R-Keller) ever since. They feel the bill is too broad and they let Truitt know that in no uncertain terms. This article appeared [...]
Facebook Is Officially Cool
Last night Chris Hunt, the 16-year-old son of our CEO, gave me a tip for a post. He says the students at Westlake High School in Austin have fled the MySpace scene and are now camped out on Facebook. He said MySpace “was dead for my school.”
This reminded me of something I read [...]
IBM Is Spending A Bundle ($10m) On Virtual Worlds
IBM and their investment in virtual worlds, like Second Life, provides even more credible validation for the market. Sounds like they are really going to push enterprise app’s on the 3-D Web — collaboration and e-commerce. They are also talking about creating gateways between worlds so people can move from one virtual [...]
State Of The Blogosphere: Still Growing!
Technorati posted its quarterly report today. They are now tracking more than 57 million blogs and growth of the blogosphere has only slowed slightly since their last review. Here are some of the highlights:
The blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.
About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day, down slightly quarter-over-quarter [...]
I’m Glad My Son Is Too Young To Drive
You’ll hear the phrase “ghostriding the whip” in the coming days. It’s the latest viral video craze on YouTube. It’s also the refrain in E-40’s song “Tell Me When to Go.”
“Ghostriding” is when the driver of a car exits the vehicle — while it is moving — and dances on its hood or roof or [...]
Circulation Plunges At Major Newspapers, On-Line Traffic Surges
Here is more evidence that people are going on-line for their news and information. Newspaper circulations have been declining for the past two decades in developed countries. The decline in the last six months is the steepest on record.
At the same time, September was a banner month for newspapers’ website traffic. 58 [...]
