Survey Indicates 75.3% Read Blogs for "News I Can't Find Elsewhere"

 

A survey of 30,079 blog readers conducted March 2005 by BlogAds finds that one reader in five is a blogger, 75.3% read logs for "news I can't find elsewhere", 59.8% for "faster news", ...
Here are a few ones which are interesting:

• 79.3% of blog readers don't have their own blogs.
• 75.5% of surveyed people(23,847) are men.
• 10% of respondents are students. In addition, 14.8% have a job in education sectors.
• Among respondents, 38% think online newspapers are "useful" sources while 50% assess the blogs as "Extremely useful" sources of news and opinion.
  Many things else to be followed especially by PR and media people. Continue here.

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Using RSS to Follow Your Beat

 

After the previous post, I found some nice points among my notes and made decision to share them with you and everyone else.
You can take them as a quick guide to RSS:

• RSS for Journalists: Jonathan Dube, editor of Cyberjournalist.net, has a guide entitled RSS for Journalists in his column on Poynter. It is worthy of reading over and over.
  Newspapers with RSS: Sidewalk theory has listed most U.S. newspapers with RSS. It is possible to change the format, therefore, you can see the papers by state, by owner, ... or see only the sites with RSS feed.
• How to use RSS to follow your beat: Mark Schaver at C.A.R offers a detailed instructions on using news aggregators.
• AP RSS News Feeds: Here you can create your own AP ticker with RSS feeds from The Associated Press.
• A Guide To Media Monitoring With RSS: Listening and monitoring is a vital discipline that any 21st century information and communication activists have to practice regularly and RSS makes it easier to listen and monitor. Josh Hallett has provided a guide one need to know to get started.

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RSS can smooth out waves for information surfing

 

The Houston Chronicle writes about RSS:

As more people find themselves getting most of their news, information and even entertainment online, they're facing a problem.
There's so much out there, how can a dedicated info junkie keep up? It's easy to chew up too much time surfing from site to site, trying to spot changes since the last visit.
The answer is RSS, a way for sites to get content to users without their visiting the site.

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