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Old Media vs. New Media: Guess Who Wins?

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Old Media vs. New Media: Guess Who Wins?

Feb 06, 2006By Michael Stoner

One of my favorite blogs is Jason Kottke’s blog. One of the interesting posts for January looks at new media (blogs and citizen media) and uses Google keyword searches to see which ranks higher in coverage of major issues from 2006. Would you be surprised to know that blogs & citizen media fare better than the New York Times? Part of this may be due to coding and such [not-so-minor!] issues as the fact that after a week the Times allows only registered visitors to view its content. But it’s clearly also an indication that the lines between the old media and the new media-Wikipedia and the blogosphere-are blurring. More here.

This in a week when we also read in TargetX’s inestimable “Email Minute” that paper is where words go to die. And where there’s interesting data in reports from Ball State University and Pitney-Bowes reports that indicate enduring value in print. I’m working on some thoughts about this for a blog post and article for our Intelligence newsletter, but in a nutshell, my thought is that it’s not an either-or world. Even for millennials.


  • Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?