New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social networking sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-and-a-half hours per month on social networking sites compared to just over two hours at the
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There is a fever of anticipation over the imminent release of a tablet-style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update — actually, let’s call it the iPad — I stand by everything else in the post, though]. Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications, Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog — has produced an update to its engagement ladder diagram: The diagram was changed to add in users of Twitter and other ‘status-update’ applications, most notably Facebook. Author Josh Bernoff notes that this group has a different demographic make-up to others: Conversationalists intrigue me. They’re My estwhile colleague, the excellent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting: I want to remember this: (via Swissmiss), the CMYK embroidery project. CMYK embroidery is a hand-made printing process, based on computer generated halftone screens. Images are halftoned according to conventional screen angles: Cyan 105, Magenta 75, Yellow 90 and Black 45. Dot screens are the transformed into cross-stitch screens, printed on paper and marked  When people were asked where they found out about news stories in a new Pew Research Center project, their answer was old media, predominantly newspapers. This is the headline table: Sector From Which New Information Reported (Six Key Storylines) Sector % of All Stories Print 48% Local TV 28 Niche media 13 Radio |             | |||
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