Another fork in the pageview model.
Project Klebnikov global media alliance
Project Klebnikov global media alliance
Alliance of investigative journalists looking into the Moscow murder of former Forbes colleague, Paul Klebnikov.
iPod penetration
I had heard at some point in the spring that 10 percent of the American public owned an iPod. Today Constantine von Hoffman, editor at CMO Magazine, forwarded this research note to me from The Center for Media Research:
"Upscale Men Dominate Adult iPod Ownership
A national phone survey of adults over the age of 18 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that more than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players. 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing.
"Podcasting" emerged in 2004, as people combined the words "iPod" and "broadcasting." Podcast listeners typically download audio files from the Web onto a computer, transfer the files to an iPod, and listen at their leisure.
Of the 22 million adults who own iPods:
- 13% of men have the players, compared to 9% of women.
- 16% of African-Americans and English-speaking Latinos own iPods/MP3 players, compared to 9% of non-Latino whites.
- 19% of those ages 18-28 have iPods/MP3 players.
- 14% of those ages 29-40 have them
- 11% of younger Baby Boomers (ages 41-50) have them
- 6% of older Baby Boomers (ages 51-59) have them
- 6% of those 60-69 have them
- 1% of those 70 and older have them
iPods/MP3 players are for the upscale. Owners include:
- 18% of those who live in households earning more than $75,000
- 13% of those living in households earning $50,000 to $75,000
- 9% of those living in households earning $30,000-$50,000
- 7% of those living in households earning less than $30,000
- Those who use the internet are four times as likely as non-internet users to have iPods/MP3 players
- 14% of internet users have iPods/MP3 players, compared to 3% of non-internet users.
There is no notable gap between those who have broadband access and dial-up users when it comes to podcasting. "
Given that this study lists adults, I can assume if you add in the youth market, the penetration is indeed around 10 percent.
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Ballardvale Blog: Omniture Raises Money — Again
Ballardvale Blog: Omniture Raises Money — Again
Guy Creese spoke at IDG’s internal online meeting in Boston in June. He’s also chair of the technology committee of the Web Analytics Association, a former Aberdeen analyst, and a total web metrics guru.
Here’s he posts about Omniture’s announcement it had received $40 million in series B financing. CXO is an Omniture client – using SiteCatalyst ver. 12 to track the traffic on its sites. The user manual awaits me.
Tech Online Recruitment Specialist Dice Inc. Acquired by General Atlantic and Quadrangle Group
Tech Online Recruitment Specialist Dice Inc. Acquired by General Atlantic and Quadrangle Group
Interesting transaction in the IT jobs space (disclosure, I consulted to Dice in 2002).
Colin’s Corner: The threat of disintermediation
Colin’s Corner: The threat of disintermediation "We’ve always regarded ourselves as trusted providers of information services but now we also need to recognize that some of the most valuable information comes from outside our traditional content generation mechanism , from our users. We need to be about the creation of strong branded communities where people converse together and share experiences and look for advice and information. We need to focus not only on the distribution of information, but also, and more importantly, on allowing the community to share information while providing the opportunity to interact with editors and vendors. As publishers, we need to view ourselves as managers of content, delivering the right content and tools to our users when and where they want to consume the information"
Simplicity Defined
There’s nothing like a new iPod courtesy of the I/S department — surely one of the most frivilous pieces of hardware they’ve ever had to install. I think I disappointed the poor person who came into my office bearing gifts when I said I would set it up myself. The rationale for getting the company to buy me the new toy is that I need a player to test our nascent podcasting plans here at CXO and to play with iTunes 4.9’s podcast subscription facility.
After the usual USB plug-in and configuration I moved about five hours worth of IT Conversations and other assorted geek casts (along with some hilarious Tour de France commentary performed by two slightly drunk Brits in a Wayne’s World format) over to the 6 gig mini, then walked it out to the car and set up the Belkin charger/gooseneck holder gizmo and the Belkin FM transmitter.
I tried to listen to an excellent Gillmor Gang conference call featuring Dan Bricklin, Doc Searles, Dan Farber and other, but the cell phone interrupted me and actually wasted 30 minutes of bumper-to-bumper commuting/listening time. Excellent discussion and evidence that great content quality can be delivered with little to no production value.
I got home, changed into my cycling gear, filled up the water bottle, and hopped aboard my fixed-gear — the legendary "Snotrocket", an old Bianchi ten-speed that I spray-painted black and stripped of all gears and non-essentials. Fixed-gears are basically what urban messengers and track racers ride in the velodrome. One gear and no coasting. If the rear wheel is moving, so are your feet. Want to brake? Use your feet.
The nice thing about fixed-gear cycling, other than the purity of no gears to click, is the total focus on cycling and the extreme effort required to ascend hills, etc.
I broke a cardinal rule and brought along the mini so I could finish the podcasts. This is a rule for safety sake — you can’t hear approaching traffic with your ears filled with music or talk radio — but I was on some serious back roads through farmland and gave it a go.
There was something appropriate about listening to homebrew radio, on a device with one of the simplest user interfaces ever invented, on a homebrew cycle with no extraneous parts.
Great workout and I filled my head at the same time.
Mens sana in corpus sano
A VC: Really Simple Stealing
RSS theft is nasty but happening everywhere. Shades of the old frame-and-scrapers of the mid-90s. I really like Fred’s Internet Axis of Evil, but he misses a couple, like pop-ups, meaningless registration, page takeovers ….
The Internet Axis of Evil
