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  Pete Ashton 1:24 pm on August 14, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: community (2), Hyperlocal (2), newspapers

  A quote taken out of context from here:

  Many people still read home-delivered print (more than you might think). Print readership isn’t directly measurable, but there are plenty of research tools that all report a decline in frequency — and along with it, engagement with civic life.

  This bugs me. I’m not doubting that engagement with “civic life” drops when you remove the source of information about it. I’m just wondering what it gets replaced with. I feel more engaged with civic life in my city than I ever did when I actively bought print media. I’d like to think I’m not unusual in that regard.

   

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  Pete Ashton 9:39 am on July 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: journalism (2), newspapers, twitter (6)

  Today the Birmingham Post published a rather silly article about social media. Interestingly while it was mainly about Facebook the title was John Lamb: Banalities of Twitter. Soon enough the Twitter-using folk of Birmingham picked up on this and piled into the comments making it the Post’s biggest story of the day according to the editor. That alone is interesting (is traffic to the Post’s site so low that a few hundred hits from the likes of us can tip the balance?) but it was the phenomena that really got me. And since it’s complex and nuanced I decided it would best be explained with a couple of captioned photos.

  

  

  M’fellow traveler Chris Unitt used the first one in his riposte which was nice but they really were supposed to be read as a pair, so here they are.

  Yes, they’re not that funny. Yes, I can do better. That’s why they’re on this blog rather than ASH-10 proper.