| By David Weinberger |
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| March 2, 2010 08:00 AM EST |
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Pew Internet has published the results of an important survey on how we’re getting our news today.
I haven’t read the whole thing but one little point leaps out already:
Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites and 52% share links to news with others via those means.
Note that this breaks the usual rule that 1% of the online population does the work that the other 99% “consume,” which applies (extremely roughly) to Wikipedia edits, tagging, etc.
[LATER that day:] In fact, it’s fun watching tidbits from the report surfacing on Twitter.E.g. Jay Rosen @(jayrosen_nyu) points to Micah Sifry’s writeup (@Mlsif). Scott Rosenberg (@scottros) reminds the Pew folks that “participatory news consumer” is an oxymoron. Meanwhile, Steve Rubel (@steverubel) points to Mike Melanson’s post at ReadWriteWeb about a report that says that Facebook drives three times as much traffic to broadcast media websites than Google News does.
