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paidContent:UK: PCUK/Harris Poll: Only Five Percent Of Readers Would Pay For Online News

Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 09:44

"We think the question for news publishers is this: is five percent of your readership (that’s the number who tell us they would pay) enough to offset the decline in advertising revenue that would come with putting your site behind a pay wall?"

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Help Me Investigate: How to customise your browser for effective online research

Friday, 4 September 2009, 16:48

"A few hand-picked add-ons that are tailored for serious online research can take your browsing to another level…."

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Online Journalism Blog: How successful bloggers become bureaucratized too

Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 14:55

Paul Bradshaw reads an enthography of blogging: "just as the restricted space and time of mainstream media shape their output, so does the lack of restrictions shape the output of blogs: 'Whereas constraints necessitate routines, so does a lack of limits … bloggers have developed routine practices that narrow down possibilities.'"

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 Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 08:48 0

Murray Dick: "Web 2.0 is changing the ways journalists can find contributors online. … Here I’m going to do a general comparison of the best online people finders I’ve found – 123people, Pipl and yoname."

 Thursday, 5 June 2008, 12:39 0

Nature today publishes a study of human movements based on tracking their mobile phones’ locations. AP’s story says the paper raises the emerging ethical issue of "locational privacy".

 Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 14:33 0

"One in 20 people in Exeter has a fear of going online, according to … research from UK Online Centres, a government-funded organisation which aims to get more people to go online."

 Monday, 18 June 2007, 11:57 0

The "Integrated Newspaper Footprint Study" by Scarborough Research in the United States has found a high degree of overlap in the use of online and print versions of newspapers.

 Thursday, 12 April 2007, 23:38 0

Mac Slocum: "Some journalism teachers … overestimate the Web skills of the current generation. We mistake technological comfort with research expertise. … [T]here’s little transferable skill between a well-managed MySpace profile and online research."