von Roland Hachmann | Mai 5, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital News
As Sam Flemming writes, this chinese blog should really be at Nr. 1 of the Technorati Charts.
Just browsing through some of her articles, you can see she can get well over 100,000 page views per article and at least 1,000 comments per article, sometimes 3-4,000
Now, after Sams intervention, this blog sits at Nr. 1 of the Technorati Charts. Here is background info by Steve Rubel.
Given the rapid growth in blogging in other languages we’re going to see a big shake-up in the so-called „A-list.“ Lots of bloggers in other countries, particularly Asia, are going to push the rest of us down the food chain. Good for them. The blogosphere is truly flat.
Scary, the thought that at some point we will not be able to read any of the A-List Blogs, if they all look like the one of Xu Jing Lei:
von Roland Hachmann | Mai 4, 2006 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Digital News, Online Advertising
- Adverblog has some stats on the alternative online advertising channels (blogs, RSS, etc.). Growth rates of 190% are fantastic. Just don’t tell anyone your starting at next to zero…
- PFSK pointed me to a post on their companion site „IF„, which lists trend aggregator websites – highly recommendable!“
- popurls is one they forgot in this list. This covers newest links, entries, headlines, fotos, videos, etc. of all the new and/or hip sites, such as youtube, flickr, del.icio.us, furl, digg, etc. Fascinating, go check it out.
- Joseph Jaffe starts an interesting discussion about that fact MSM should, reallistically, also send trackbacks (or references as such) to blogs, if they heard about the story through blogs first. And I completely agree! Never be „ashamed“ of your sources. Especially not at times, when it is apparent that bloggers quite often have the first (not necessarily the best) insights into stories.
- Too bad. But I can see why. Would be even more so the case in Germany…
von Roland Hachmann | Mai 2, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital News
PSFK points us to the SecondLife Job Club:
…where they will present to attendees a number of opportunities to make money in Second Life
There are many examples of people who make real money within the virtual world of SecondLife, so this could be really worthwhile.
On the other side: these guys have figured out how to make money out of SecondLife in the REAL world!
Check it out yourself.
von Roland Hachmann | Mai 1, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture
David Sifry, founder of Technorati, hast posted a new „state of the blogosphere„.
There is some interesting facts in there, a summary of the main points:
- Technorati now tracks over 35.3 37.3 Million blogs
- The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
- It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
- On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
- 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
- Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
Interesting stats. However, one thing struck me: English isn’t the most commonly used language any longer. English isn’t even the primary language of one third of all posts now, with only 31% in April. Japanese seems to be the main language (37%). So what are the other languages of the blogosphere?
Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.
And another thing curious about the way people post to their blogs around the world:
Japanese bloggers appear to write shorter posts more often. This could be a result of blogging from mobile phones
So in fact, because the Japanese post stuff about everything from anywhere makes them the champions?
The language analysis goes by „posts“, not origin (as they admit themselves).
I would really like to know, where the most bloggers are located. There might be many like myself who don’t write in their mother tongue, but instead write in English, because that’s the language to write in, if you want to be understood by the majority on the net.
von Roland Hachmann | Apr 25, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Digital News, Online Advertising, SEO / SEA
- Webmonkey has an interview aboutSearch Engine Optimization: „Bryan Zilar recently sat down with strategy consultant and SEO guru Jason McQueen to talk about all things search“.
- Yahoo! now offers an online video meshup tool, writes business 2.0 blog.
- Futurelab calls the Gnarls Barkley Nr. 1 hit video a casestudy in word-of-mouth.
- Marketing.fm points me to the Technology Evangelist, who examines the differences between Online and Offline Advertising. Some interesting points he’s making.
- Wired writes about an interesting survey: „Some 45 percent of internet users, or an estimated 60 million Americans, said the internet helped them make big decisions or face a major moment in their life during the previous two years“
von Roland Hachmann | Apr 24, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture
There is a fairly new and highly discussed movement going on, called: Save the Internet.
What does it mean, and what is this movement for? David Weinberger has answers:
Net neutrality (formerly known as the end-to-end principle) means that the people who provide connections to the Internet don’t get to favor some bits over others. This principle is not only under attack, it’s about to be regulated out of existence.
For more detail you can also check out the FAQ page of savetheinternet.com.
As Jeff Jarvis writes:
The age of business models built on scarcity and on keeping your customers from doing what they want to do is over. Now we just have to make sure that Congress doesn’t try to keep it on artificial life support.
That seems to be a big discussion in the US, while it seems strange to me, that a freedom orientated society like them might actually face such a self-imposed threat?
But then again: what IF we are currently living in an extraordinary timeslot? What IF content distribution goes back to what it used to be – large corporations dictating (programming) or at least controlling content distribution. And charging for it, too, of course. In 20 years people will have forgotten, that you could ever download content for free or make free PC-to-PC calls.
Just a thought. Please don’t say: „if you’re not with us, you’re with them“.
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