Poll Position — UK Last Again

From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users:

Blogs are now a near second to news­pa­pers as the most trusted inform­a­tion source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of inform­a­tion, still behind news­paper articles (30%), but ahead of tele­vi­sion advert­ising (17%) and email mar­keting (14%). High spenders are most

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Video 2.0 Round-​​up

YouTube was the 26th most popular site on the Internet in September 2006. Ending my recent responses to the Hitwise Consumer Generated Media report (social networks and photos pre­vi­ously), this is what’s hap­pening in the Web 2.0 video sharing space. Recently acquired by Google, YouTube remains firmly at the top of

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MySpace: The Beast of Santa Monica

The latest Hitwise Consumer Generated Media Report reveals that MySpace’s dom­in­ance over other social networks shows no signs of slowing down. MySpace has a market share of 81.92% among the social networks, with users spending over 30 minutes on the site in an average session. This is the second-​​​​longest session time in the survey, with

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Why do PRs Blog?

One of the things that really sur­prised me when I started blogging earlier this year was the number of PR people who are involved in it (big list here here). For some reason, I thought there’d be more journos doing it. But then, I suppose a lot of journ­al­ists have to blog for the pub­lic­a­tions they work

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Web 2.0 Bigger than News

Not really. Though if you stretch the stats enough you can make it seem that way.

From Mediapost’s Online Media Daily:

Web 2.0 sites make up the fastest-​​​​growing category on the Web — doubling their traffic over the last year, according to data presented Monday by Nielsen/​​/​​NetRatings. Web 2.0 sites, defined loosely as those allowing

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Conspiracy of One

Dr. Sam Vaknin has been mon­it­oring the results given by Google for 154 keywords since 1999. He’s allegedly dis­covered that changes in the way Google works since April 2006 have produced what he calls ‘unset­tling’ results. He says incoming links from the MySpace social network appear valued very highly by Google’s search algorithm. The

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