How News Travels on the Internet

Published Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:23 PM

This image is an interesting albeit over simplified view of how news spreads on the internet. It is an interesting depiction of how blogs are emerging as a quantifiable, monitorable, and replicable chatter; a new form of gossip that impacts the traditional media more immediately.

by wkriebel

Filed under: Syndication

Comments

# M. Keith Warren said on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:49 PM

This ignores the Drudge factor.

# Westin said on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:56 PM

Matt Drudge, of Drudge Report (http://www.drudgereport.com) is well known and attributed with breaking the Clinton sex scandal amongst other things. Originally he would have fit into the "Greater Blogoshere" but I would almost classify him as Big Media because of his notoriety. The problem with the term "Greater Blogosphere" is that it over simplifies the outlets who are "blogging" as simply RSS feeds. These are somewhat sophisticated news organizations with dedicated staff operating in a fairly conventional publishing model. That being the case, Drudge-like outlets fit squarely in that space.

# TrackBack said on Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:22 PM

by hjalli

# TrackBack said on Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:15 PM

"Tell me what you read and I shall tell you what you are" is an anonymous play on a famous proverb. Every day we take in a lot of information from a variety of sources. This information shapes our ideas,...

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