Life, Death, and Blogs. Will they live on?
The nearly 49 million blogs at Cyworld, Naver and Daum mean that there is almost one for every person in South Korea. According to the state-run Statistics Korea agency, 246,000 people died here in 2008. Among them were 30,000 people between the ages of 20 and 40 – the demographic with the highest rate of Internet use. Since many netizens subscribe to all the services separately, that means up to 30,000 “ghost blogs” appear for that age group every year on each of Korea’s top three portals.
via And to my dear son, I leave my blog – INSIDE JoongAng Daily.
This is fascinating. I just read the Twitter has come up with a deceased policy. This woman and her son fought, and he unfriended her. Then he died suddenly. Now Naver won’t let here view the photos, etc.
Notice the graph included in the story, showing how people want their blogs disposed of (or not disposed of) after they move to the blogosphere in the sky.
My Twitter Friends as of Aug. 2010
Poligraft Tool for Journalists, Politicos, Voters
Poligraft is a new, geeky Web tool that the Sunlight Foundation just launched. You can plug either a URL or text into the tool and it will analyze the information and link you to groups that donate to politicians.
…Let’s take a look at CNN‘s story on the “buzz” over Proposition 8. When you drop that story’s URL into Poligraft, you can see how various groups mentioned in the story give money to one party or the other.
via Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting.
How to Mobile-Optimize Website
How to Mobile-Optimize a WordPress Website
by PrabhasPokharel
Publishing for the mobile web is an important way to reach audiences on mobile phones. This screencast demonstrates an easy-to-use tool that can enable many content producers pubish for the mobile web. WordPress.org has developed software which lets many around the world create websites fairly easily. This tool, the WordPress Mobile Pack, makes it easy for those web publishers to now publish on the mobile web.
In this short how-to video, we show easy it is install the WordPress Mobile Pack and generate a mobile version of websites, along with pointers to the more advanced features of the software.
via How to Mobile-Optimize a WordPress Website | MobileActive.org.
Internet And TV Capture News Seekers
From Jack Loechner at Media Post
Self proclaimed “news junkies” are more likely to rely on traditional media sources. 53% still cite the newspaper as their main source of news. Younger people get their news on demand. 65% of respondents younger than 25 years old described their news habits as interest-based, only reading about breaking news stories or stories of interest. 70% of respondents in this age group turn to the Internet to learn more about a breaking news story and share information about a news story.
The majority of adults surveyed admitted to sharing news online, through either Twitter, Facebook, Social Networks such as MySpace, Email or Bookmarking sites like Digg. 90% of respondents younger than 25 years old use Twitter or Facebook to share news, double the amount of respondents 40+
78% of all people surveyed share news stories through social networking sites:
- 54% of adults under the age of 45 share news primarily through Facebook
- 68% of adults 45 and older share news primarily through email
- 82% of respondents have commented on a news story online, and are comfortable commenting on national news sites, local news sites, or user generated content sites.
More than one third of survey respondents use search engines to find multiple perspectives on a news story.
- 72% are satisfied with the resulting news story they land on when clicking through from a search engine
Women are 2x more likely to click on just the first 1 or 2 search results than men
