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Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian
the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story. “The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order.” via Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | […]
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Too many journalists ?
An unpleasant question: Do we have an excess of daily press journalists? And, if so, how does the surfeit vary from country to country? Two years ago, Earl Wilkinson, the managing director of the International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA), produced a chart showing how the growth in the number of journalists employed by US dailies […]
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The Death of Joe Average
Forget Joe Average, he’s dead. Ten or twenty years ago, analyzing audiences was much easier. Medias enjoyed well-defined and relatively unchanging target groups. For television, networks had a precise idea on who was watching what, and specialized cable outlets knew their viewers pretty well. Newspapers had their content structure sliced to fit various audiences by […]
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Papercraft Self Portrait
This Papercraft Self Portrait was Eric Testroete his Halloween costume last weekend. Eric is a 3D artist in the Vancouver game industryand he was inspired by the big-head mode seen in videogames. It was probably quite fun for him to do an offscreen project with his 3D skills. You can find more photos in this […]
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The Cash Is In The Topics
All conversations I keep having about the economics of a news web sites revolve around two key ideas: how to increase both the duration and the depth of a visit. In this respect, much work remains. For August 2009, here are the numbers of page views, as measured by Nielsen Net Ratings on the French […]
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Glyph Lefkowitz: An Unboxing You Won't See On Gizmodo or Engadget
For the last few months, I’ve been trying to decide what I’ll be doing when I grow up. It turns out that there’s a company in California which uses Twisted that has a job for me. Don't worry, east coast people: I'm going to be staying here and working remotely, with some travel. Since I’ve […]
