It’s Friday, so fancy a bit of distraction now you’ve joined another Ning network, checked your Twitter/Facebook thoroughly and read all of yesterday’s PopBitch and Sam Leith’s witty account of surprise redundancy …? (note: that’s no reference at all to Journalism.co.uk’s own Friday morning activity)
Well… introducing the GenderAnalyzer: a nifty little site that predicts within a second just whether there’s an extra X or Y chromosome influencing that blog. Spookily accurate, according to the very necessary research just conducted.
Without further ado, or procrastination, here’s the link: http://genderanalyzer.com/
Tags: blogs, genderanalayzer.com, nifty little site, procrastination, Sam LeithBlog publisher Shiny Media recorded a 7 per cent increase in unique users to its network of sites in October, according to Google Analytics figures posted to the company’s blog.
Unique users to the blogs grew to 3.2 million for the month with 6.1 million page impressions.
Figures for individual titles for October included:
Crafty Crafty – a 40 per cent rise in unique users to 89,000
CorrieBlog – a 37 per cent rise in unique users to 79,000
Xboxer.tv – rise of 34 per cent
ShinyStyle.tv – rise of 28 per cent
Kiss and Make Up – rise of 24 per cent
In the blog post, Shiny co-founder Chris Price said the figures might be prompted in part by the economic downturn, as more people turn to lifestyle and home-based interest sites.
Tags: blogging, blogs, Chris Price, Shiny Media, TrafficThere’s been quite a lot of discussion about how to behave on Twitter lately. Last week @charlesarthur said it was all about the links and got a few conflicting comments below his blog post about how to be interesting (or not) on Twitter.
Earlier in the week, one of @journalismnews followers said they didn’t like too many Tweets from an event, without prior warning.
So, over to you our lovely followers … Do you think we should have a specific events Twitter name for all events, or specific ones for each event we attend, which we’ll publicise the name for from @journalismnews?
Tweet back, or drop us a comment below.
Tags: blogging, blogs, Charles Arthur, Tweet, TwitterForget all that stuff about journalists being miserable old so and sos, this blog reckons we actually like stuff.
We picked this up today from Twitter: everything journalists like, along the lines of the very, very successful blog Stuff White People Like (Christian Lander has a book out now).
Apparently we like The Wire, interns, Twittering, press areas, awards and swag…
Scarily accurate but we need a slightly UK orientated one too: strong tea, cluttered desks, having shorthand, the PR machine (otherwise we wouldn’t have any stories and it would reduce things to moan about).
So another one to the list, we like this blog. Add your likes (especially the secret ones) here…
Tags: blogging, blogs, Christian Lander, stuff journalists like
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